Machine Learning since 1997: what’s new?
Tom Mitchell is creator and chair of, to my knowledge, the only “Machine Learning Department” in academia. Read more
Tom Mitchell is creator and chair of, to my knowledge, the only “Machine Learning Department” in academia. Read more
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 5 years since the first world science festival here in NYC. The event is a series of lectures and science-related events, including plays, outdoor events, and of course lectures from some of the most well known scientists and science expositors. Read more
I was happy to see the news this morning that Microsoft is opening a new research lab in NYC, with 15 of the former members of the Yahoo R+D NYC lab as its founding members. Read more
This Friday will be the 2012 Theory Day, co-organized by Columbia, NYU, and IBM. I’ve been to several and, as the blurb says, “in particular, students are encouraged to attend.”. Read more
Last night I attended the senior dinner for graduating Columbia engineers and sat next to a student who was going into consulting. The company she’s going to work for, she said, recruited heavily, and offered a diversity of experiences, which appealed to her because she said she wasn’t quite sure yet what she wanted to do with her life. She admitted that she would probably not use any of her undergraduate STEM education. Read more
On Saturday, I was a judge for the Data Viz Competition at the NYC Data Hackathon, part of the world’s first global data hackathon. Along with my fellow judges Cathy O’Neil and Jake Porway, we gave an award to the team that best found a nontrivial insight from the data provided for the competition and managed to render that insight visually. Read more
how to write a paper … Read more
Folks there’s still time for NYC’s biggest annual machine learning event: … Read more
Registration now open for the 5th Annual Machine Learning Symposium @ The New York Academy of Sciences! Read more
NYC’s own Drew Conway (grad student @ NYU) Mike Dewar (postdoc @ Columbia) put together a visualization of the recent trove of data released by wikileaks.org about Afghanistan. The work was picked up by Wired.com this week in a post titled Open Source Tools Turn WikiLeaks Into Illustrated Afghan Meltdown and also featured in the Atlantic. Read more
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