Duality

University of Maryland Asst. Professor John Dickerson joins us and discusses his work at the intersection of computer science, AI, and economics, with a focus on solving practical problems using stochastic optimization and machine learning. He studies, "anything having to do with markets which sounds traditionally economic, but think about all the markets that you interact with every day for advertising. Facebook exists because of advertising. Most tech money these days exists because of advertising. This is a market-design problem, and it's one that I don't think traditional economics entirely would be able to capture. Computer science allows us to bring techniques that CS people have been developing for decades into this world."