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What a wonderful way to start the week! Congrats to Paul Milgrom and Bob Wilson!!!
Total giants who have impacted auction theory into practice, and pretty much every economist and algorithmic game theorist. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-12/economics-nobel-goes-to-two-masters-of-auction-design-milgrom-and-wilson
Total giants who have impacted auction theory into practice, and pretty much every economist and algorithmic game theorist. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-12/economics-nobel-goes-to-two-masters-of-auction-design-milgrom-and-wilson
My own work on interdependent values is directly based on Milgrom+Weber's, and its prior-free setting on Wilson's doctrine. (w/ Alon Eden, @MichalFeldman9, Amos Fiat, + Anna Karlin)
It's always easier stand on the shoulders of giants!
Explained well here:
It's always easier stand on the shoulders of giants!
Explained well here:
Paul Milgrom also joined YoungEC '19 (organized by @MichalFeldman9+ @noamnisan), and I think it's safe to say all the junior researchers loved chatting with him over the 4 days! His approval of approximation became a running theme!
I wrote about it here:
http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_18/1/GOLDNER.pdf
I wrote about it here:
http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_18/1/GOLDNER.pdf
And btw, while I really want this thread to be about Milgrom+Wilson + all the impact they've had, if you *want* to see an honorable mention talk on an award-winning paper based on two different ideas awarded the Nobel this year, I'll just leave this here:
