Incentives in Computer Science

cs.columbia.edu

154 points·simonpure··10 comments

I immediately looked past the header section to the body content snd textbook section and say that the textbook was “Algorithmic Game Theory” by Tim Roughgarden, who I recognize from his Coursera classes on algorithms at Stanford.

https://www.coursera.org/instructor/~768

After finally looking at the top to see who the instructor was I was shocked to that it’s Tim — although I should have guessed that, professors often recommend books they wrote. It’s surprising that he moved to Columbia from Stanford. I don’t know anything about computer science academics but I would think Stanford would be a more prestigious snd opportunistic place than Columbia.

Maybe he likes living in NYC?

Palo Alto is nice but not everyone wants to live their whole life there.

The original is giving me a 404. Here's a recent archive from Internet Archive,

https://web.archive.org/web/20200223145314/http://www.cs.col...

There's also a short intro course video lecture on YT by the same instructor -

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEGCF-WLh2RJdrKZ431SidRX_...

Lecture notes available:

http://timroughgarden.org/notes.html

Links on that page mostly dont work

It's interesting how much the incentive section in cryptocurrency reads like the Saito critique of Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is so mainstream that it is hard to verify what exactly you refer to:

1)the bitcoin economics paper by Saito 2)the white paper for the Saito coin 3)one of Satoshi Nakamoto’s writings

All 3 can be googled.

Does anyone know if recordings of the lectures are available?

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