Fall 2015 Computer Science 458 10/26/15

Announcements

• export DISPLAY - another try.

• Here is a draft list of sample final projects.

• Final projects are due the last day of reading period.

• Office hours. Ronghui Gu is holding office hours at 305 AKW.

  Wednesday 2-4 pm.
  Thursday 7-9 pm.
  

  Kun Run has office hours at 203 AWK.

  Monday 7-9 pm
  Friday 10am - 12pm
  

• Ronghui has created a class Piazza site for the course. You should have received an email on friday notifying you of your enrollment. This should facilitate communication. https://piazza.com/

• Materials related to Facebook talks on October 14:
  • Here are the slides from Mike Bailey's talk

  • Paper on economics of ad bidding: Strategic Bidder Behavior in Sponsored Search Auctions

  • Paper on Facebook filter bubble: Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

• Wednesday's Guest Speaker will be Aaron Brown from AQR Capital. There will be dinner at Mory's afterwards. We will conduct a lottery.

• Next Monday's Guest Speaker will be Paul Gu from Upstart. There will be dinner at Mory's afterwards. We will conduct a lottery.

Mid Term Exam

• There will be a make-up midterm on Friday October 30th, from 4 - 5:30pm in Davies Auditoreum. It will have the same format as the first midterm. The questions will be different - except for the last one about the final project.

hw3: Algorithmic Trading: Momentum Strategy