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Artem Petakov, (Artem Pyatakov) 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.

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.

=Selected Publications=
 * 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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