podcast -- Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise in research by Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic and STIET fellow Eytan Bakshy
Podcast discussing the STIET research program with Jeff MacKie-Mason and Tom Finholt
podcast -- Yahoo Answers users seek advice, opinion, as well as expertise in research by Mark Ackerman, Lada Adamic and STIET fellow Eytan Bakshy
Podcast discussing the STIET research program with Jeff MacKie-Mason and Tom FinholtS. Muthukrishnan
Google Research
4-5:30 pm
UM: 411 West Hall
WSU: 313 State Hall (via videoconference)
While there is considerable attention on sponsored search and the underlying auctions that power ads on the Internet, there is much less attention on how display ads are placed on websites. In particular, increasingly, display ads are transacted via two-sided markets (aka an exchanges) that bring online publishers and online advertisers together in real time. In this talk, I will present an overview of some of the issues involved in designing such exchanges. The issues lead to open problems in auction theory, optimization, and cryptography.
S. (Muthu) Muthukrishnan is a Research Scientist at Google and a Professor of Computer Science at Rutgers Univ. His research interest is in Internet Auctions and Game Theory. In the past, he worked on Data Stream Algorithms and its connections to Compressed Sensing, Databases and Networking. He also maintains a blog: http://mysliceofpizza.blogspot.com/
Link: http://algo.research.googlepages.com/ has many of the papers relevant to this talk.