Decisions People Make

Decisions People Make

Ammar Ammar

From buying a brand breakfast cereal to choosing a college to attend, decision making pemeate every aspect of our lives. And while most of these simple decisions are made spontaneously and involve little, other decisions, individual and collective, can have far reaching consequences on our society and the environment we inhabit. 

In this studio, students will explore the various aspects the decision making process, in the presence of constraints and uncertainty. Using simplified concepts and techniques from computater science, game theory, probability, and behavioral economics, students will get a chance to tackle a variety of familiar decision problems and formulate solutions to deal with these problems. Using data and programming, students will design and implement a tool to demonstrate what they learned.