25,161
edits
Changes
no edit summary
'''Ashton Anderson''',<br/>
a Canadian computer scientist and assistant professor at [[University of Toronto]], broadly interested in research that bridges the gap between computer science and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science social sciences] <ref>[http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ashton/ Ashton Anderson - University of Toronto]</ref>.
In 2008, he graduated from [[McGill University]] with a Bachelor of Engineering in software engineering, and completed his Master's degree in computer science at [[Stanford University]] in June 2010 under [[Mathematician#Shoham|Yoav Shoham]], and his Ph.D. at Stanford in 2015 under [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Leskovec [Mathematician#JLeskovec|Jure Leskovec]].
As a chess player, along with [[Reid McIlroy-Young]], [[Russell Wang]], [[Siddhartha Sen]] and [[Jon Kleinberg]], Ashton Anderson is involved in the [[Maia Chess]] project of a human-like [[Neural Networks|neural network]] chess engine <ref>[https://maiachess.com/ Maia Chess]</ref>.
==2010 ...==
* [[Ashton Anderson]], [[Mathematician#Shoham|Yoav Shoham]], [https://dblp.org/pid/89/2427.html Alon Altman] ('''2010'''). ''Internal Implementation''. [http://www.ifaamas.org/Proceedings/aamas2010/ AAMAS 2010], [https://cs.stanford.edu/people/ashton/pubs/ii.pdf pdf]
* [[Ashton Anderson]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Huttenlocher [Mathematician#DPHuttenlocher|Daniel Huttenlocher]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Leskovec [Mathematician#JLeskovec|Jure Leskovec]] ('''2012'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2124295.2124378 Effects of user similarity in social media]''. [https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2124295 WSDM '12], [https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/wsdm12-sim.pdf pdf]* [[Ashton Anderson]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Huttenlocher [Mathematician#DPHuttenlocher|Daniel Huttenlocher]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Leskovec [Mathematician#JLeskovec|Jure Leskovec]] ('''2012'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2339530.2339665 Discovering value from community activity on focused question answering sites: a case study of stack overflow]''. [[ACM#SIGKDD|ACM SIGKDD 2012]], [https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/kdd12-qa.pdf pdf] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow Stack Overflow from Wikipedia]</ref>* [[Ashton Anderson]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Huttenlocher [Mathematician#DPHuttenlocher|Daniel Huttenlocher]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Leskovec [Mathematician#JLeskovec|Jure Leskovec]] ('''2013'''). ''Steering user behavior with badges''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_World_Wide_Web_Conference_Committee IW3C2], [https://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/www13-badges.pdf pdf]* [[Ashton Anderson]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_P._Huttenlocher [Mathematician#DPHuttenlocher|Daniel Huttenlocher]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jure_Leskovec [Mathematician#JLeskovec|Jure Leskovec]] ('''2014'''). ''Engaging with Massive Online Courses''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.3100 arXiv:1403.3100]
* [[Ashton Anderson]], [[Jon Kleinberg]], [[Sendhil Mullainathan]] ('''2016'''). ''Assessing Human Error Against a Benchmark of Perfection''. [[ACM#SIGKDD|ACM SIGKDD 2016]], [https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.04956 arXiv:1606.04956]
* [[Ashton Anderson]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l480S2EAAAAJ&hl=en Etan A. Green] ('''2018'''). ''[https://www.pnas.org/content/115/8/1772 Personal bests as reference points]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proceedings_of_the_National_Academy_of_Sciences_of_the_United_States_of_America PNAS], Vol. 115, No. 8 <ref>[https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/breaking-research/personal-bests-and-why-you-stop-after-achieving-them-u-t-scarborough-expert Personal bests – and why you stop after achieving them: U of T Scarborough expert | University of Toronto Scarborough - News and Events] by [https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/nina-haikara Nina Haikara], February 7, 2018</ref>
