[CSDM] Of interest: Today's ORFE Department Colloquium : 4:30 pm in Sherrerd Hall 101: Christos Papadimitriou

[Avi Wigderson]

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Date: 	Tue, 5 Feb 2019 14:24:52 +0000
From: 	Amir Ali Ahmadi <a_a_a at princeton.edu>
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> *From:* "Tabitha C. Mischler" <mischler at princeton.edu 
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> *Date:* February 5, 2019 at 9:11:54 AM EST
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> *Subject:* *Today's ORFE Department Colloquium :  4:30 pm in Sherrerd 
> Hall 101: Christos Papadimitriou*
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> *== Today’s ORFE Department Colloquium Announcement==*
>
> *DATE:              Tuesday, February 5th, 2019*
>
> *TIME:*               4:30pm
>
> **
>
> *LOCATION:*    Sherrerd Hall 101
>
> *SPEAKER: Christos Papadimitriou*
>
>
>   Title:On Incentives and Fairness
>
> *Abstract:*Automated decisions and policies informed by machine 
> learning and the pursuit of efficiency permeate today's social life. I 
> will discuss three quite diverse manifestations of this reality, and 
> certain challenging computational problems resulting from them: 
> Classifying selfish agents, for example for college admissions, may 
> lead to game-playing, inefficiency, and unfairness; when the input of 
> machine learning algorithms is provided by profit-making producers of 
> data, novel forms of computational mechanism design are needed; 
> finally, optimizing efficiency in congestion games, for example 
> through tolls in congested routes, can be proved under assumptions to 
> necessarily increase wealth inequality. We ponder whether these are 
> not symptoms and parts of an emerging new social order.
>
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> *Bio:*                Christos H. Papadimitriou is the Donovan Family 
> professor of computer science at Columbia University. Before joining 
> Columbia in 2017, he taught at UC Berkeley for 22 years, and before 
> that at Harvard, MIT, NTU Athens, Stanford, and UCSD. He has written 
> five textbooks and many articles on algorithms and complexity, and 
> their applications to optimization, databases, control, AI, robotics, 
> economics and game theory, the Internet, evolution, and more recently 
> the study of the brain. He holds a PhD from Princeton as well as eight 
> honorary doctorates, and he has won the Knuth prize, the Goedel prize, 
> and the von Neumann medal. He is a member of the National Academy of 
> Sciences of the US, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 
> National Academy of Engineering, while in 2013 the president of Greece 
> named him commander of the order of the phoenix. He has also written 
> three novels: "Turing", "Logicomix" and his latest "Independence".
>
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