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Meet the Faculty: Jason Hartline4:00 p.m
March 12, 2008
Tech L361
| Meet the Faculty: Jason Hartline: "Auctions in the Unknown" | ABSTRACT: As the Internet has developed to become the single most
important arena for resource sharing among parties with diverse and
selfish interests, traditional algorithmic and distributed systems
approaches are insufficient. To prevent undesirable Internet
phenomena such as spam in email systems, bid-sniping in eBay's auction
marketplace, free-loading in file-sharing networks, and click-fraud in
Internet advertising; game-theoretic and economic considerations from
auction theory must be applied. The traditional economics approach to
auction design leads to too much dependence on the details of the
setting; whereas, protocols for the Internet must function well in a
wide variety of settings. This talk begins with an overview of the
foundational 2007 Economics Nobel prize winning work in auction design
and then surveys recent work in auction design for unknown settings.
BIO:
Dr. Hartline joined the EECS department at Northwestern University in
January of 2008. Prior to joining Northwestern, he spent four year as
researcher at Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, where he studied
foundational topics in Internet economics and applications to auctions
for sponsored search. He was a founding organizer of the Bay
Algorithmic Game Theory Symposium. In 2003, he held a postdoctoral
research fellowship at the Aladdin Center at Carnegie Mellon
University and he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Washington in 2003 advised by Anna Karlin. In third
grade he got first place in a Halloween window painting contest.
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