| www.tedxathens.com 720p HD mode available. About the speaker: Constantinos Daskalakis is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He grew up in Athens where he did his undergraduate s tudies, and received his PhD from the University of California-Berkeley. He worked at Microsoft Research as a post-doctoral researcher in 2008-2009, and has since been at MIT. His research studies the interface of Computer Science and Economics, with a focus on the computational aspects of the Internet, online markets and social networks. He has been honored with several awards in Greece and the US, including the Association of Computing Machinery's Doctoral Dissertation Award (for the best PhD dissertation in Computer Science written in 2008) and the Game Theory Society's Game Theory and Computer Science Prize (for his work on the computational complexity of the Nash equilibrium). About TEDx: In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) |
