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From Bayesian to Worst-Case Optimal Auction Design by Prof. Tim Roughgarden
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11:00:00 AM on 11/15/2010
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KAP 140
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Speaker: Prof. Tim Roughgarden
Host: Prof. David Kempe
Note: Talk starts at 11:15 am.
Abstract:
We define a general template for auction design that explicitly connects Bayesian optimal mechanism design, the dominant paradigm in economics, with worst-case analysis. In particular, we establish a general and principled way to identify appropriate performance benchmarks for prior-free optimal auction design. This framework enables, for the first time, meaningful competitive analysis for ...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1144
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Verifiable Network-Performance Measurements by Katerina Argyraki, EPFL
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3:00:00 PM on 11/15/2010
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TBA
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Speaker: Katerina Argyraki, EPFL
Host: Profs. Konstantinos Psounis and Ramesh Govindan
Abstract:
In the current Internet, there is no clean way to troubleshoot poor forwarding performance: when an Internet service provider (ISP) does not forward traffic as agreed/expected, its customers and peers resort to ad-hoc probing to localize and assess the problem. Research proposals advocate end-to-end measurements from different vantage points (e.g., PlanetLab nodes) as a way to forcefully extra...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1157
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Robot Babies by Melinda Snodgrass
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2:00:00 PM on 11/17/2010
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SLH 100
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Speaker: Melinda Snodgrass
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Abstract:
This talk is designed to raise several questions.
The first is to examine the purpose of the robot in fiction both in prose and on film. Ro-bots are used to fill this niche because the allow for an analysis of human problems and concerns through the eyes of The Other. Aliens can also fill this role. Ultimately we use the robot as a way to explore issues that confront humans. What does it mean to be human? What is moralit...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1138
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CRA-W/CDC Distinguished Lecture Series: Adaptive Drama Management: Bringing Machine Learning to Interactive Entertainment
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3:30:00 PM on 11/18/2010
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SSL 150
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Speaker: Dr. Charles Lee Isbell, Jr., Georgia Tech
Host: Dr. Timothy Pinkston, Senior Associate Dean of Engineering
Abstract:
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in constructing rich interactive entertainment and training experiences. As these experiences have grown in complexity, there has been a corresponding growing need for the development of robust technologies to shape and modify those experiences in reaction to the actions of human participants.
When thinking about...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1133
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Reflections on being an AI System Architect by Prof. Victor Lesser
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8:00:00 AM on 11/19/2010
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TBD
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Speaker: Prof. Victor Lesser
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Abstract:
I will share with you the intellectual intuitions and serendipities that have shaped my research career. I first discuss my early research that includes my PhD thesis work at Stanford on a reconfigurable multiprocessor and my post-doc work as the system architect for the Hearsay-II system at CMU (the first fully instantiated blackboard system) that have strongly influenced my later research. These ideas will include distribu...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?Event_ID=1158
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