What's Popular?

All of us who co-authored this book hope you'll find it a compelling and useful guide to some of the most interesting tools, models and ideas for improving the world.  I've also written many articles at WorldChanging, including:

• A Talk with Thomas Homer-Dixon - making society more robust to converging challenges.
• CanadaChanging - a series of articles with Canada in the spotlight.
• The Wealth of Networks: Remixed Highlights - selections from Yochai Benkler's book on peer production, remixed into an essay.
• Lessons and Questions from An Inconvenient Truth - bridging the gap between knowing facts and seeing the big picture.
• Joshua Farley, Ecological Economist - interview with the co-author of Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications.
• Bankers Going Green? ...the UNEP Finance Initiative - banks, investors, and insurers research environmental challenges.
• Environmental Accounting and the New Wealth of Nations - econometrics and financial systems for measuring natural wealth.
• Stiglitz and Sen's Manifesto - highlights from the Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress.
  

What would a sustainable open infrastructure dedicated to solving the world's toughest problems look like?

The potential utility of reputation services has barely been tapped.  An effective reputation ecology will promote accountability, quality, and the fulfilment of our nobler aspirations.

A look forward to 2025, from a large Canadian scenarios exercise drawing from a broad range of participants.

TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer.

Creating an open "Internet of Opinions".

Complete List of Publications

Book Contributions

• Collective intelligence: creating a prosperous world at peace. EIN, 2008.
• Worldchanging: a user's guide to the 21st century. Abrams, 2006.

• Five promising methods for health foresight. Hassan Masum, Jody Ranck, and Peter A Singer. Foresight Journal, 2010, Vol.12 No.1, pp 54-66.
• Public engagement on global health challenges. Emma RM Cohen, Hassan Masum, Kathryn Berndtson, et al. BMC Public Health, 2008 May 20, 8:168.
• Accelerating health product innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Hassan Masum, Abdallah S Daar, Sara al-Badr, Ronak Shah, and Peter A Singer. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, Fall 2007, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp 129-149.
• A visual dashboard for moving health technologies from "lab to village". Hassan Masum and Peter A Singer. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2007;9(4):e32.
• A tough transition. Peter A Singer, Kathryn Berndtson, C Shawn Tracy, Emma RM Cohen, Hassan Masum, James V Lavery, and Abdallah S Daar. Nature, September 13 2007 (Vol.449, pp 160-163).
• Given enough minds...: bridging the ingenuity gap. Hassan Masum and Mark Tovey.  First Monday, July 2006 (Vol.11, No.7). (Reprinted in Nonprofit Online News Journal, November 2006, pp 19-58.)
• MusicGrid: a case study in broadband video collaboration.  Hassan Masum, Martin Brooks, and John Spence.  First Monday, May 2005 (Vol.10, No.5).
• Using S&T foresight to augment organizational tool kits: a Canadian institutional-entrepreneurial experiment.  Jack Smith, Hassan Masum, Raymond Bouchard, Peter Kallai, and Eric Lockeberg.  R&D Management, November 2004 (Vol. 34, No. 5, pp. 579-589).
• Manifesto for the reputation society.  Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang.  First Monday, July 2004 (Vol.9, No.7).
• The Turing ratio: a framework for open-ended task metrics. Hassan Masum, Steffen Christensen, and Franz Oppacher. Journal of Evolution and Technology, October 2003 (Vol.13, Issue 2).
• TOOL: The Open Opinion Layer. Hassan Masum. First Monday, July 2002 (Vol.7, No.7).
• Partners in progress: S&T productivity in NRC and Canada's research universities. Hassan Masum and Jack Smith. The Innovation Journal, March 2002.
• Switching models for nonstationary random environments. BJ Oommen and Hassan Masum. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, September 1995; pp 1334-1339.

Papers and Technical Reports

• Statistical analysis of heuristics for evolving sorting networks. Lee Graham, Hassan Masum, and Franz Oppacher. GECCO-2005; June 2005, Washington DC, USA.
• Explorations in 4-peg tower of Hanoi.  Ben Houston and Hassan Masum.  Carleton University Technical Report TR-04-10, November 2004.
• Beyond ISS: normative foresight reveals stepping stones to the future.  Jack Smith, David Crabtree, Steffen Christensen, and Hassan Masum.  IAC 2004: 55th International Astronautical Congress (Vancouver, Canada; October 4-8, 2004).
• From institutional R&D to entrepreneurial knowledge networks. Jack Smith, Hassan Masum, Raymond Bouchard, Peter Kallai, and Eric Lockeberg.   R&D Management Conference 2003; July 2003, Manchester, U.K.
• Decomposition and optimization in near-hierarchical Boolean function systems.  Hassan Masum.  Ph.D. thesis, Carleton University, 2003.
• The Turing ratio: metrics for open-ended tasks. Hassan Masum, Steffen Christensen and Franz Oppacher. GECCO-2002; July 2002, New York City, USA.
• Regulatory networks and genomic algorithms. Hassan Masum and Franz Oppacher. SCI 2001 / ISAS 2001; July 2001, Orlando, USA.
• From genetic to genomic algorithms: steps toward an interdisciplinary synthesis of evolutionary and molecular computation. Hassan Masum, Franz Oppacher, and George Carmody. Carleton Journal of Computer Science, Spring 2001.
• Estimating risk-neutral probability measures in GIMMC4, and Monte Carlo simulation in the integrated market and credit portfolio model in IPSW5. (Both papers in the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences workshop proceedings from June 2001.)
• Reputation layers for open-source development. Hassan Masum. Position paper at the First Workshop on Open-Source Software Engineering, in ICSE 2001; May 2001, Toronto, Canada.
• Genomic algorithms: metaphors from molecular genetics. Hassan Masum, Franz Oppacher and George Carmody. Workshop Proceedings of GECCO-2000; July 2000, Las Vegas, USA; pp 173-178.
• On modelling nonstationary random environments using switching techniques. BJ Oommen and Hassan Masum. Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics; October 1993, France; pp 572-577.

Government Reports and Other Publications

• NRC science and technology foresight pilot project: scenarios workshop report. Government of Canada publication, June 2003.
• Review of Algorithmics for Hard Problems.  Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, June 2003, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp 6-8.
  
• Decoding biological systems with evolutionary computation.  Hassan Masum.  Complexity, January 2003, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp 42-44.
• Review of A New Kind of Science.  Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, December 2002, Vol. 33 No. 4, pp 15-21.
  
• A primer for simulation of concise models.  Hassan Masum.  Complexity, November 2001, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp 16-18.
  
• An introduction to support vector machines. Hassan Masum.  ACM intelligence, Summer 2001, Vol. 12 No. 2.
• Review of How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics.  Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, March 2001, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp 8-12.
• Review of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java (2nd ed).  Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, March 2001, Vol. 32 No. 1, pp 3-5.
• Review of Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications (2nd ed.)   Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, December 2000, Vol. 31 No. 4, pp 10-12.
• Review of Microsurveys in Discrete Probability.  Hassan Masum.  SIGACT News, September 2000, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp 22-24.
  
• "To boldly go" - Haiku Pentacycle. In Star Trek: The Poems, Valerie Laws (Editor); Iron Press, 2000 (ISBN 0906228778).