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Major Contributions
Andrew Goldberg

Below I list some of my major research contributions. Much of this work is joint with a number of other researchers. See the list of publications for co-authorship information.


Algorithm Design and Analysis:

Developed efficient algorithms for several fundamental network optimization problems, in particular shortest paths, maximum flows, minimum-cost flows, and matching problems. This work stimulated follow-up work by many researchers. Some of these algorithms appear in textbooks and are being taught to Computer Science and Operations Research students. These algorithms are widely used in industry and academia.


Algorithm Implementation and Engineering:

Developed efficient implementations of some of the fundamental network optimization algorithms as well as on general methodology for experimental algorithm analysis. The resulting codes are used by Computer Scientists as well as Operations Researchers, Physicists, Civil Engineers, and Biologists.


Mechanism Design:

Motivated by the problem of dynamic pricing of digital goods, our work on competitive auctions lead to more general pricing mechanisms aimed at maximizing sellers revenue. We use Computer Science techniques of worst-case and competitive algorithm analysis to design auctions that achieve high revenue in the worst case. Follow-up work extended these ideas to a wider class of problems.


Intermemory:

I co-authored (with Peter Yianilos) the original papers on Intermemory, a robust, highly fault-tolerant, and self-maintaining distributed storage system. Intermemory predated peer-to-peer networks, but does fall into this category. Intermemory provides the fist application of peer-to-peer networks to other than (often illegal) content distribution.

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