Prof. Eva Tardos - Games, Auctions, Learning, and the Price of

Prof. Eva Tardos - Games, Auctions, Learning, and the Price of Anarchy

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Professor Eva Tardos, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University, presents "Games, Auctions, Learning, and the Price of Anarchy". This lecture is part of the Milner Lecture series, which recognises excellent and original theoretical work which has a perceived significance for practical computing: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/lfcs/events/milner-lectures. This lecture was recorded on 14 October 2013 at the University of Edinburgh's Informatics Forum.

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