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'''Artem Petakov''', (Artem Pyatakov)<br/>
an Ukrainian born, American computer scientist, software engineer, and co-founder and president at ''Noom Inc.'' <ref>[https://us.noom.com/about/ About | Noom Inc.]</ref> (formerly WorkSmart Labs <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE_hBVlEFM Artem Petakov, CTO of WorkSmart Labs drops by the studio to demo his app, Cardio Trainer], with [https://plus.google.com/+AshleyEsqueda/about Ashley Esqueda], May 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE_hBVlEFM|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>), offering [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_app mobile apps] that promote [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health healthy living] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHealth monitoring] the progress of its users, and providing advice on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_management weight management] <ref>[https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/noom Noom] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch#CrunchBase CrunchBase]</ref>. He was previously affiliated with [[Google|Google Inc.]], where he founded and later led the GeoSearch project on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps Google Maps], the [[Free University of Berlin]], where he was successfully involved in their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup RoboCup] project, [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Optimization|optimizing]] [[x86]] execution in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29 Solaris] Kernel 10, and [[Microsoft]] as member the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server SQL server] team <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]</ref>.
Artem Petakov holds a Bachelor of Art from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University], where he studied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance finance], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre theater] from 2000 to 2004, and also took [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman Daniel Kanheman's] ''[[Psychology|psychology]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making decision making]'' class <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]</ref>. His CS interests at that time were [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], [[Learning|machine learning]], and [[Hardware|hardware]] and processor related topics, such as [[Memory|memory]] access and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor branch predictor], and their considerations in compiler [[Optimization|optimization]]. During his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman freshman] year at Princeton, he had written a chess engine which played under the handle [[Golch]] at [[Internet Chess Club|ICC]] <ref>[http://www6.chessclub.com/finger/golch Finger golch] at [[Internet Chess Club]]</ref>, and was also test-bed for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#United_States senior thesis] ''Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning'' <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357095 Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004</ref> under advisor [[Robert Schapire]] <ref>[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rywang/03fIND/iw_sched.html Princeton - Independent Project Presentation Schedule]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Pyatakov:Artem dblp: Artem Pyatakov]</ref>
* [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]] ('''2004'''). ''Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning''. Senior thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University], advisor [[Robert Schapire]]
* [[Mathematician#QWu|Qiang Wu]], [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[Mathematician#ASpiridonov|Alexey Spiridonov]], [http://liberty.princeton.edu/Publications/index.php?setselect=eraman Easwaran Raman], [[Mathematician#DWClark|Douglas W. Clark]], [[Mathematician#DIAugust|David I. August]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=977677 Exposing Memory Access Regularities Using Object-Relative Memory Profiling]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cgo/cgo2004.html#WuPSRCA04 CGO 2004], [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jqwu/orp_paper.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
==2001==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.ai.games/8HrM4ffGDsU/R2T0PIauZnMJ Pattern matching and chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.ai.games comp.ai.games], June 20, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=177538 Automatic Eval Tuning] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], June 29, 2001 » [[Automated Tuning]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=178465 Fastest Conversion from 0x88 board to 8x8 board representation] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 06, 2001 » [[0x88]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=179247 Question about Gerbil] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2001 » [[Gerbil]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=179328 Bitfields and Crafty] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2001 » [[C]], [[Crafty]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=178979 Static Exchange Eval] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], August 02, 2001 » [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
==2004==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357095 Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004 » [[Artificial Intelligence]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357112 Re: Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess - *DETAILS* as promised] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004 » [[History Heuristic]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357334 Two questions: Bratko Kopec and variations on the killer heuristic] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 31, 2004 » [[Bratko-Kopec Test]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357640 Killer modifications reduced tree size by 8% (with identical results)] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 31, 2004 » [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357822 Help, please: best description of a modern chess program] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], April 01, 2004
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.crunchbase.com/person/artem-petakov Artem Petakov] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch#CrunchBase CrunchBase]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Pyatakov]]
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Pyatakov]]
[[FILE:ArtemPetakov.jpg|border|right|thumb|240px|link=https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745| Artem Petakov <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]</ref> ]]
'''Artem Petakov''', (Artem Pyatakov)<br/>
an Ukrainian born, American computer scientist, software engineer, and co-founder and president at ''Noom Inc.'' <ref>[https://us.noom.com/about/ About | Noom Inc.]</ref> (formerly WorkSmart Labs <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE_hBVlEFM Artem Petakov, CTO of WorkSmart Labs drops by the studio to demo his app, Cardio Trainer], with [https://plus.google.com/+AshleyEsqueda/about Ashley Esqueda], May 2010, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfE_hBVlEFM|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>), offering [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_app mobile apps] that promote [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health healthy living] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHealth monitoring] the progress of its users, and providing advice on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight_management weight management] <ref>[https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/noom Noom] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch#CrunchBase CrunchBase]</ref>. He was previously affiliated with [[Google|Google Inc.]], where he founded and later led the GeoSearch project on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Maps Google Maps], the [[Free University of Berlin]], where he was successfully involved in their [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup RoboCup] project, [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Optimization|optimizing]] [[x86]] execution in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29 Solaris] Kernel 10, and [[Microsoft]] as member the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_SQL_Server SQL server] team <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]</ref>.
Artem Petakov holds a Bachelor of Art from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University], where he studied [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science computer science], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finance finance], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre theater] from 2000 to 2004, and also took [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman Daniel Kanheman's] ''[[Psychology|psychology]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-making decision making]'' class <ref>[https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]</ref>. His CS interests at that time were [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], [[Learning|machine learning]], and [[Hardware|hardware]] and processor related topics, such as [[Memory|memory]] access and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_predictor branch predictor], and their considerations in compiler [[Optimization|optimization]]. During his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshman freshman] year at Princeton, he had written a chess engine which played under the handle [[Golch]] at [[Internet Chess Club|ICC]] <ref>[http://www6.chessclub.com/finger/golch Finger golch] at [[Internet Chess Club]]</ref>, and was also test-bed for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis#United_States senior thesis] ''Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning'' <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357095 Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004</ref> under advisor [[Robert Schapire]] <ref>[http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~rywang/03fIND/iw_sched.html Princeton - Independent Project Presentation Schedule]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/p/Pyatakov:Artem dblp: Artem Pyatakov]</ref>
* [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]] ('''2004'''). ''Improving Computer Chess through Machine Learning''. Senior thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University], advisor [[Robert Schapire]]
* [[Mathematician#QWu|Qiang Wu]], [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[Mathematician#ASpiridonov|Alexey Spiridonov]], [http://liberty.princeton.edu/Publications/index.php?setselect=eraman Easwaran Raman], [[Mathematician#DWClark|Douglas W. Clark]], [[Mathematician#DIAugust|David I. August]] ('''2004'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=977677 Exposing Memory Access Regularities Using Object-Relative Memory Profiling]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cgo/cgo2004.html#WuPSRCA04 CGO 2004], [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~jqwu/orp_paper.pdf pdf]
=Forum Posts=
==2001==
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.ai.games/8HrM4ffGDsU/R2T0PIauZnMJ Pattern matching and chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.ai.games comp.ai.games], June 20, 2001
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=177538 Automatic Eval Tuning] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], June 29, 2001 » [[Automated Tuning]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=178465 Fastest Conversion from 0x88 board to 8x8 board representation] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 06, 2001 » [[0x88]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=179247 Question about Gerbil] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2001 » [[Gerbil]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=179328 Bitfields and Crafty] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], July 11, 2001 » [[C]], [[Crafty]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=178979 Static Exchange Eval] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], August 02, 2001 » [[Static Exchange Evaluation]]
==2004==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357095 Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004 » [[Artificial Intelligence]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357112 Re: Artificial Intelligence in Computer Chess - *DETAILS* as promised] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 28, 2004 » [[History Heuristic]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357334 Two questions: Bratko Kopec and variations on the killer heuristic] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 31, 2004 » [[Bratko-Kopec Test]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357640 Killer modifications reduced tree size by 8% (with identical results)] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], March 31, 2004 » [[Killer Heuristic]]
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=357822 Help, please: best description of a modern chess program] by [[Artem Petakov|Artem Pyatakov]], [[CCC]], April 01, 2004
=External Links=
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-petakov/b/a62/745 Artem Petakov | LinkedIn]
* [https://www.crunchbase.com/person/artem-petakov Artem Petakov] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch#CrunchBase CrunchBase]
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one Level]]'''
[[Category:Chess Programmer|Pyatakov]]
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Pyatakov]]
