Fall 2016 Computer Science 458: 11/14/2016

Today's Guest Speaker: David Swensen, Yale Investment Office.

David Swensen is Yale's Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining Yale in 1985, David spent six years on Wall Street, where his work focused on developing new financial technologies. He authored two books: Pioneering Portfolio Management: An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment and Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. Mr. Swensen has taught in Yale College since 1980.

David advised the President of the United States as a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has advised the Brookings Institution, the University of Cambridge, the Carnegie Corporation, the Carnegie Institution, Hopkins School, the New York Stock Exchange, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, TIAA-CREF, Yale-New Haven Hospital, and the States of Connecticut and Massachusetts. David graduated from the University of Wisconsin, River Falls in 1975. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at Yale.

Alex Hetherington joined the YIO in 2006, where he works on the natural resources and absolute return portfolios, and helps determine spending policy and asset allocation. He graduated from Yale College with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and Economics and became a CFA® charterholder in 2010.

Dinner guests:
  Fed Panfilov
  Pauli Xu
  Davey Proctor
  Kenneth Seals-Nutt
  

Monday's Guest Speaker:Alborz Geramifard, Research Scientist, Amazon Alexa

Final Project: Additional Specifications

• Your project should run in the zoo. If you need additional libraries or software installed, you must clear it with the TF.
• You need to include a write-up explaining your project, including how to run it, what it does, what is interesting or important about it, how it explains the decision. Screen shots might be helpful as well.
• You can create a web site. In this case, it may not need to run in the zoo. However, you need to submit all the code so that it could theoretically be run in the zoo.
• Can you leverage a project for another course? It depends. You need to check with me first.
• Can you change your project after your proposal? Well, yes. The real question is what happens if you do that? The answer is again, it depends. If your initial idea hits a wall and does not work, you probably should figure out another way to go.