Stay up to date on all the news and events happening in the world of forecasting! Click on our web pages to learn more: New Tourism Workshop for 2015 announced New Conferences Posted Have a conference that you'd like to post on [...]
Why I became a Forecaster Herman Stekler In writing this little biographical sketch, I have come to realize that reconstructing historical events as they occurred in real-time is as difficult as making an actual forecast. I did not plan on becoming a forecaster; [...]
(Cross-posted from Hyndsight) The first issue of the IJF for 2015 has just been published, and I'm delighted that it includes a special section honoring Herman Stekler. It includes articles covering a range of his forecasting interests, although not all of them [...]
For the twelfth year, the IIF, in collaboration with SAS®, is proud to announce financial support for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. The winners for the current year have been announced! Please join in congratulating the winners: [...]
(Cross-posted from Hyndsight) Review papers are extremely useful for new researchers such as PhD students, or when you want to learn about a new research field. The International Journal of Forecasting produced a whole review issue in 2006, and it contains some [...]
Please join the IIF in welcoming two new Distinguished Researchers and Fellows to the Institute. Michael Clements is Professor of Econometrics at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading and an Associate member of the Institute for New Economic [...]
An interesting new initiative in forecasting has been launched by Fotios Petropoulos and Nikolaos Kourentzes: the Forecasting Society, which aims at bringing researchers in (judgmental) forecasting together with people willing to participate in forecasting experiments. Here is how it works for researchers... [...]
Here is just a brief preview of our upcoming issue of The Oracle, the IIF's online newsletter: Dear participants of the 34th International Symposium on Forecasting, It has been our great pleasure that we could welcome you to Rotterdam, the Netherlands, for [...]
ATTENTION Teachers of Forecasting! IIF Student Forecasting Awards The IIF is offering prizes to top-performing students in undergraduate and graduate level forecasting courses. Star students will receive $100, a Certificate of Achievement from the IIF, and one year’s free membership of the [...]
The organizing team has organized an extremely promising roster of distinguished keynote and featured speakers: Joel E. Cohen, Rockefeller University and Columbia University Tilmann Gneiting, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Dimitris N. Politis, University of California, [...]
