Christos Papadimitriou |
Computing Nash equilibria: The plot thickensFriday, 20th August, 2010, Room 3.2.14
Short bio Christos H. Papadimitriou is C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Before joining Berkeley in 1996 he taught at Harvard, MIT, Athens Polytechnic, Stanford, and UCSD. He has written five textbooks and many research articles on algorithms and complexity, and their applications to optimization, databases, AI, economics, and the Internet. He holds a PhD from Princeton, and honorary doctorates from ETH (Zurich), the University of Macedonia, the University of Athens, and the University of Cyprus. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and a fellow of the ACM. His novel Turing was published by MIT Press in 2003, and his graphic novel Logicomix (with Apostolos Doxiadis) by Bloomsbury in 2008. |