Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
KDD 2006 panel report did a panel report on grand challenges in the field of data mining. The report was published in the ACM SIGKDD Explorations Newsletter and can be accessed from here. The report identifies following areas as prominent ones for active research and development. Makes a good repository for those looking for an…
Now this is my idea for summer fun! Too bad its far far away from sunny California else I'd be right there. Machine Learning Summer School August 20-31, 2007, Max Planck Campus, Tübingen, Germany Machine Learning is a foundational discipline of the Information Sciences. It combines theory from areas as diverse as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering,…
Goodbye wires… MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords Franklin Hadley, Institute for Soldier NanotechnologiesJune 7, 2007 Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being…
Some good software and website resources for belief networks. Software SamIam from UCLA http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/samiam/ GeNIe/SMILE from the University of UPitt: http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/ Hugin lite from Hugin: http://www.hugin.com MSBN from Microsoft Research: http://www.research.microsoft.com/dtas/msbn/ JAVABayes from CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~javabayes/Home/ Netica from Norsys http://www.norsys.com References · The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence · A Brief Introduction…
How do you see your data? In the form of tables, CSV files, text reports, graphs, charts or may be something more interactive like geo-spatial maps. IMHO, Visualization is quite important to making sense of data; if you want to really know what’s in it, I’d want to see something more than a mental image.…
17770 Movies, 480189 Reviewers and over 100 million ratings to correlate; this is when your desktop starts looking like this. Netflix's Challenge is a very interesting algorthmic problem but beware, it will eat up all your time. Mean, Median, Mode, Variance, Averages, Correlations, neighborhoods and what not, you'd start dreaming in those. The amoung of…
Participate in Microsoft Global Research via Chris Pels President INETA North America -How .NET is perceived today – its' strengths & weaknesses-How we can best position & communicate .NET in the marketplace (both now & in the future)-How we can make the way we talk about .NET to customers more compelling We would like to…
Recently I’ve been eagerly reading “The New Turing Omnibus – 66 Excursions in Computer Science” by A. K. Dewdney and let me tell you, this book is addictive. An interesting essay was about Simulation and the Monte Carlo method. There wasn’t anything exciting in the actual explanation of the process but the deduction lead to…
Tipping point’s author Malcom Gladwell discusses in great detail the power of context and its implications in epidemiology. However there is another kind which could adversely effect context driven expansions in quite interesting ways. In the following screenshots, the power of context is apparently being ignored by the full text search and substitution algorithms which…
An interesting letter by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh on Determinism vs. Chance published on UAI. He also referneces his GTU paper for migration from random fuzzy sets to granule-valued distributions; Dear Hung, Thank you for your illuminating analyses of the Valentinaexample,and your comments regarding the theory of random fuzzy sets.Your high expertise in both probability…