Thede, speaking at the Fall 2003 STIET workshop

Academic Bio for Thede Loder

Thede Loder is a third year graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Michigan and is concentrating in Artificial Intelligence. As a participant in the U of M's STIET program, he is involved in cross discipinary research - and is currently focused on the problem of email spam, or more generally, on improving efficiency in marketplaces for communication and the attention required to process it. Thede's AI interests include multi-agent systems, decision theory, complex adaptive systems, and biologically/economically inspired agent models. As such, he is studying the application of learning and economic awareness in agents (peers) in peer to peer networks. In particular, he is interested in how macro-scale multi-agent systems phenomena (such as supply chain efficiency) can arise from local decision making and to what extent such decisions can be managed through the use of incentives and reputation systems.

Prior to coming to the University of Michigan, Thede was a partner at the IT consulting firm Diamond Technology Partners, of Chicago, and was the CEO and CTO of Leverage Information Systems in San Francisco, a provider of application server software and related services. Before co-founding Leverage, he was a lead software developer at match.com. Thede has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and completed additional coursework at UC Berkeley.

Awards/Honors

Papers and Presentations

Papers and Presentations written by Thede Loder and colleagues:

2004

Information Economics

2003

Information Economics

Peer to Peer, Social Networks, Multi-Agent Systems of self-interested agents

2002

Operating Systems

Affiliations


U of Michigan's NSF Funded STIET Program

University of Michigan's Artificial Intelligence Lab

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