3 take Harry M. Markowitz Award for insight into machine learning Ronen Israel, Bryan Kelly and Tobias Moskowitz Ronen Israel, Bryan Kelly and Tobias Moskowitz were named winners of the $10,000 Harry M. Markowitz Award for their paper, "Can Machines 'Learn' Finance?" The award was announced Feb. 25 by the Journal of Investment Management and New Frontier Advisors, co-sponsors of the award, in a joint statement. The paper explores how asset management provides a unique set of challenges for machine learning that differ significantly from other practices in which machine learning has excelled....