Huge congratulations to Avi Widgerson on his Turing Award, for his foundational work on understanding the role of randomness 🎲 in algorithms and computing!

Saying it's well-deserved would be an understatement.

cacm.acm.org/news/wigderson…

📢Post AAMAS mult-agent workshop in Sydney.

We at UNSW are organizing a multi-agent conventicle on 13-14 May, 2024. If you will be in town and wish to give a talk, please reach out to Michael Thielscher.

cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~mit/krmascon2…

Francis Su is in Sydney!

Our work with Narges Ahani, Paul Gölz (Mastodon in bio), Ariel Procaccia, and Andy Trapp on dynamic refugee assignment with HIAS has featured in Comms of Association for Computing Machinery: cacm.acm.org/research/dynam… 🤯
Thank you Daniel Freund for a *wonderful* discussion of it: cacm.acm.org/opinion/techni… 🙏

Was invited to discuss fairness of algorithms and connections with game theory & social choice.

The 2024 Conference on Mechanism and Institution Design will take place in Budapest, Hungary, July 8-12, 2024.

Paper Submission Deadline: 30-Mar-2024

uni-corvinus.hu/ind/cmid/?lang…

We are excited to support and co-host the Machine Learning Climate Science workshop today!

A discussion with Prof Marek Kowalkiewicz!

The UNSW AI Institute would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the delegates from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, who visited us recently.

Algorithmic Decision Theory group lunch with several group members and international visitors.

We are happy to announce the 19th MiP workshop, which will be hosted by Marek Pycia in Zurich on March 18 & 19.

Shengwu Li will give a plenary talk on Simple Mechanisms.

Deadline for submission is February 5.

Details: matching-in-practice.eu/event/19th-mat…

Our book exists! (but won't be out until Feb. 8.) penguin.co.uk/books/317706/m…

Delighted to see that a paper I wrote 25 years ago has been recognised by this prestigious award. Automated negotiation is a key form of interaction in multi-agent systems.

The AAAI 2024 Tutorial and Lab Forum:

#AAAI2024

aaai.org/aaai-conferenc…