Artem+Petakov

an Ukrainian born, American computer scientist, software engineer, and co-founder and president at //Noom Inc.// (formerly WorkSmart Labs ), offering [|mobile apps] that promote [|healthy living] by [|monitoring] the progress of its users, and providing advice on [|weight management]. He was previously affiliated with Google Inc., where he founded and later led the GeoSearch project on [|Google Maps], the Free University of Berlin, where he was successfully involved in their [|RoboCup] project, Sun Microsystems, optimizing x86 execution in [|Solaris] Kernel 10, and Microsoft as member the [|SQL server] team.
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Artem Petakov holds a Bachelor of Art from [|Princeton University], where he studied [|computer science], [|finance], and [|theater] from 2000 to 2004, and also took [|Daniel Kanheman's] //psychology of [|decision making]// class. His CS interests at that time were artificial intelligence, machine learning, and hardware and processor related topics, such as memory access and [|branch predictor], and their considerations in compiler optimization. During his [|freshman] year at Princeton, he had written a chess engine which played under the handle Golch at ICC, and was also test-bed for his [|senior thesis] //Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning// under advisor Robert Schapire. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * Artem Pyatakov (**2004**). //Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning//. Senior thesis, [|Princeton University], advisor Robert Schapire
 * Qiang Wu, Artem Pyatakov, Alexey Spiridonov, [|Easwaran Raman], Douglas W. Clark, David I. August (**2004**). //Exposing Memory Access Regularities Using Object-Relative Memory Profiling//. [|CGO 2004], [|pdf]

=Forum Posts=

2001

 * [|Pattern matching and chess] by Artem Pyatakov, [|comp.ai.games], June 20, 2001
 * [|Automatic Eval Tuning] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, June 29, 2001 » Automated Tuning
 * [|Fastest Conversion from 0x88 board to 8x8 board representation] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, July 06, 2001 » 0x88
 * [|Question about Gerbil] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, July 11, 2001 » Gerbil
 * [|Bitfields and Crafty] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, July 11, 2001 » C, Crafty
 * [|Static Exchange Eval] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, August 02, 2001 » Static Exchange Evaluation

2004

 * [|Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, March 28, 2004 » Artificial Intelligence
 * [|Re: Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess - *DETAILS* as promised] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, March 28, 2004 » History Heuristic
 * [|Two questions: Bratko Kopec and variations on the killer heuristic] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, March 31, 2004 » Bratko-Kopec Test
 * [|Killer modifications reduced tree size by 8% (with identical results)] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, March 31, 2004 » Killer Heuristic
 * [|Help, please: best description of a modern chess program] by Artem Pyatakov, CCC, April 01, 2004

=External Links=
 * [|Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]
 * [|Artem Petakov] | [|CrunchBase]

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