[Colloq] Hiring Talk: Howard Karloff, AT&T Labs, Thursday, May 5, 11am

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium

Presents:
Howard Karloff
AT&T Labs -- Research

Who will speak on:
Optimization and Approximation at AT&T Labs and Beyond

Thursday, May 5, 2005
11:00am
366 West Village H
Northeastern University

Abstract:
I will speak primarily on some practical projects at AT&T Labs in which 
I've been involved. These include multiprocessor scheduling, voice 
switch "deloading," and FCC spectrum auctions; only the multiprocessor 
scheduling section will be technical.  If time permits, I'll speak about 
some recent theoretical work on approximating the asymmetric traveling 
salesman problem.

Bio:
After receiving his PhD from Berkeley with Dick Karp, Howard Karloff 
taught at the University of Chicago and Georgia Tech before joining AT&T 
Labs--Research.  An editor of ACM's Transactions on Algorithms, he has 
served on the program committees of numerous conferences and chaired the 
Symposium of Discrete Algorithms (SODA) program committee.  He is the 
author of numerous journal and conference articles and the Birkhauser 
book "Linear Programming."  His research interests span theoretical 
computer science but extend to more applied areas of computer science, 
such as networking, as well.

Host: Rajmohan Rajaraman