Constantinos Daskalakis commented that he is saddened by the fact that young, educated, talented Greeks leave the country, because they can not advance or even find work in Greece.
The Greek scientific genius spoke in front of a packed auditorium at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in northern Greece. His lecture on artificial intelligence mesmerized 1,500 academics and students.
Now an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, Daskalakis won the international computer science organization (ACM) Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2008 for his thesis on “The Complexity of Nash Equilibria”.
The Greek scientist’s thesis answered a scientific puzzle which had stayed unsolved since John Nash had published it in 1950.
Daskalakis identified computational obstacles to the implementability of the Nash equilibrium, which has long been at the epicenter of financial mathematics, stressing the need for new and more realistic equilibrium concepts.
His work won him the Game Theory Society’s Game Theory and Computer Science prize. He has won a number of other awards and distinctions, such as the Career Award from the US National Science Foundation, the Sloan Fellowship in Computer Science, the 2011 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Outstanding Paper prize, a Microsoft research scholarship, and the research award from the Vatican’s Giuseppe Sciacca foundation.
Speaking about artificial intelligence in Thessaloniki, Daskalakis noted that it will soon become part of our lives.
He pointed out that it is more likely that in five years from today we will have a personal secretary with artificial intelligence and self-guided cars, while in 15 years the human brain’s interface with technology may become much more immediate, and the boundary separating where man ends and where the machine begins, will become more inconspicuous.
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