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We're thrilled to be hosting Daniel Doubrovkine (http://code.dblock.org/), CTO of Artsy (https://www.artsy.net), who'll be presenting on Simon Parson's Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists (http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~parsons/projects/mech-design/publications/bluffers-final.pdf).

In addition to Daniel's talk, Sophia Gold will be opening the event with a survey-oriented lightning talk on An Intellectual History of Automatic Differentiation.

Talks

• Daniel Doubrovkine on Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists (http://www.sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~parsons/projects/mech-design/publications/bluffers-final.pdf):

There is a veritable menagerie of auctions — single dimensional, multi-dimensional, single sided, double sided, first price, second price, English, Dutch, Japanese, sealed bid — and these have been extensively discussed and analyzed in the economics literature. We will survey this literature from a computer science perspective, primarily from the viewpoint of computer scientists who are interested in learning about auction theory, and to provide pointers into the economics literature for those who want a deeper technical understanding. We'll also take a peek into how the paper was used to build a new online auction platform Artsy.

• Sophia Gold's lightning talk:

An Intellectual History of Automatic Differentiation traces the research surrounding a collection of techniques for computing derivatives without using either approximation or the manipulation of subscript-filled equations used to terrorize high school students. While its simplicity gives this method the mystery of "deep magic," it has its roots in work on differential equations in the late 19th century; inspired Alonzo Church's discovery of the untyped lambda calculus; influenced the development of functional programming, concurrency, and Unix in the 1970s; and has been recently rediscovered with applications to type theory, modelling stochastic processes, and training recurrent neural networks.

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Daniel Doubrovkine (http://code.dblock.org) (aka dB., @dblockdotorg (https://twitter.com/dblockdotorg)) is a seasoned entrepreneur and technologist, CTO at Artsy.net in New York, working on bringing the art world online. He is a maintainer of multiple popular open-source projects, including Java Native Access, Ruby Grape, Hashie and the popular Slack Ruby client, bot and server libraries. Daniel graduated from University of Geneva in late 90s and founded and sold Vestris Inc., an early stage technology start-up right after college. He joined Microsoft as Development Lead, was Director at Visible Path, then Architect and Development Manager at Application Security.

Sophia Gold (https://github.com/Sophia-Gold) has lived many lives: after studying to be a studio artist she has worked at a large quantitative asset manager, developed a consultancy designing embedded systems, and performed professionally as a contortionist. These days she spends a lot of time programming in Clojure and Haskell and, despite being impressively undereducated in higher mathematics, primarily focuses on developing new techniques for automatic differentiation and other problems in computer algebra.

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