Tim Roughgarden, assistant professor of Computer Science at Stanford, illustrates two of the main themes in the field of algorithmic game theory via specific examples: performance guarantees for systems with autonomous users. (March 11, 2009)

Bill McKeeman, a Fellow at MathWorks and adjunct faculty at the Computer Science Department of Dartmouth College, reveals his goal to create the smallest extendable self-compiling compiler. (March 4, 2009)

John R. Koza, consulting professor in the Department Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, discusses the Darwinian computational technique of genetic programming to automatically design complex structures. (February 18, 2009)