About the Authors
Yossi Azar
professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
azar[ta]cs[td]tau[td]ac[td]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~azar
professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
azar[ta]cs[td]tau[td]ac[td]il
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~azar
Yossi Azar received his Ph.D. from
Tel-Aviv University in 1989
(supervised by Noga Alon).
He spent several years in the Bay Area (Stanford, DEC, IBM); his
experience there included the
Loma
Prieta earthquake, 7.1 on the Richter scale. In 1994 he joined
the computer science faculty at Tel-Aviv University. He was the
chair of the department between 2002 and 2004. His main research
interests are in the theory of algorithms, especially online,
randomized and approximation algorithms, as well as in trying to
understand his three children.
Avrim Blum
professor
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
avrim[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim
professor
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
avrim[ta]cs[td]cmu[td]edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~avrim
David P. Bunde
graduate student
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
bunde[ta]uiuc[td]edu
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~bunde
graduate student
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
bunde[ta]uiuc[td]edu
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~bunde
David Bunde is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the Computer
Science department at the University of Illinois in
Urbana-Champaign, supervised by
Jeff Erickson. Most
of his research has been on scheduling and processor allocation,
though he also likes to work on other algorithmic problems like
the current paper and
graph
pebbling. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and playing
strategy games, particularly
Civilization III.
Yishay Mansour
professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
mansour[ta]cs[td]tau[td]ac[td]il
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~mansour
professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Tel-Aviv, 69978, Israel
mansour[ta]cs[td]tau[td]ac[td]il
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~mansour
Yishay Mansour obtained his B.A. in 1985 and his M.Sc. in 1987
at the Technion; his M.Sc. advisor was Prof.
Shmuel Zaks.
He completed his Ph.D. at MIT in 1990 under the supervision of
Professors Shafi Goldwasser
and Baruch Awerbuch.
Subsequently he became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University
and a Research Staff Member at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center.
Since 1992 he has been with the School of Computer Science at
Tel-Aviv University, where he was the chairman during 2000-2002.
His research interests include online algorithms, communication networks,
machine learning, reinforcement learning and the theory of
computation.