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| Date | Abstract | Link / Source |
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| Sun Jan 24 2010 | Scaling Genetic Algorithms Using MapReduce Genetic algorithms(GAs) are increasingly being applied to large scale problems. The traditional MPI-based parallel GAs require detailed knowledge about ... | From http://portal.acm.org |
| Sun Jan 24 2010 | Sam Roweis died Sam Roweis died unexpectedly on January 12, 2010. | From http://nyulocal.com |
| Sun Jan 24 2010 | Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety Data Mining Competition To Improve Drug Safety The OMOP Cup is a competition to find new methods for detecting drug side effects. There have been several cases over the last few years where drugs have had issues that haven't been detected for years after they were released. | From http://slashdot.org |
| Wed Jan 6 2010 | Mobile data mining and your privacy rights The US public radio program Science Friday recently produced an interesting episode about the benefits and perils of collecting data from cellphones and other mobile electronic devices. | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Fri Dec 18 2009 | Data Mining Spurs Innovation Threatens Privacy By analyzing cell phone movements and online search queries, scientists can monitor traffic in real time and track disease outbreaks more efficiently, ... | From http://www.npr.org |
| Tue Dec 15 2009 | Drug data mining ban unlikely in Senate health bill A Democratic proposal to ban the collection of doctors' prescription records for marketing purposes is unlikely to be ... | From http://www.reuters.com |
| Tue Dec 15 2009 | Drugmakers May Be Blocked from Data Mining Companies like IMS Health and Verispan have built multimillion-dollar businesses around gathering prescription data and selling the ... | From http://www.cio-today.com |
| Sun Dec 13 2009 | Artificial intelligence reborn at MIT To do it, the scientists are revisiting the fifty year history of the Artificial Intelligence field, including the shortfalls that led to ... | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Tue Dec 1 2009 | Data Mining In Global Warming Science Don't worry about cooking the atmosphere while scientists are cooking data. | From http://www.forbes.com |
| Thu Nov 12 2009 | Aiide 2010 StarCraft AI Competition The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. | From http://eis-blog.ucsc.edu |
| Thu Nov 12 2009 | Security software detects datamining bots Data-mining bots tend to entirely circumvent a browser's user interface. For example, a bot may request a Web page with lots and lots of data, but never scrolls or clicks on a page. If a series of pages are opened and viewed in that manner, it could mean a data-mining bot has arrived. | From http://www.infoworld.com |
| Mon Nov 2 2009 | Mechanical computer uses matchboxes and beans to learn Tic-Tac-Toe I just completed a working build of Donald Michie's MENACE (Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine), an early (1960) example of machine learning. MENACE uses 304 matchboxes to play Noughts and Crosses (or Tic Tac Toe)... | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Tue Oct 20 2009 | Secret SEC Data-Mining to Fuel New Insider-Trading Cases After a two-year investigation using unusually aggressive evidence-gathering techniques, the feds are getting ready to crack down on a broad array of insider-trading networks. In addition to the securities fraud case and civil ... | From http://www.abajournal.com |
| Thu Oct 15 2009 | Machine Learning Ruins Blackjack this makes me wonder about arbitrage in the era of machine learning, each machine vying to outdo the other in keeping their profits locked up tight. My high margin classifier just gave me 21, yipee! Oh wait, this is already ... | From http://scienceblogs.com |
| Thu Oct 1 2009 | Artificial intelligence aid for dementia sufferers A form of artificial intelligence has been designed to help make life easier for people with dementia. | From http://www.abc.net.au |
| Mon Sep 28 2009 | CMU Machine Learning protests at G20 Bayesians Against Discrimination in machine learning means developing a model for distinguishing between twoor more classes of datausually given a data set with many examples ... | From http://www.reddit.com |
| Mon Sep 28 2009 | Netflix Challenge Discussion John Langford has a good (brief) discussion of the Netflix Challenge on his blog. | From http://hunch.net |
| Wed Sep 23 2009 | FBI's DataMining System Sifts Airline Hotel CarRental Records A fast-growing FBI data-mining system billed as a tool for hunting terrorists is being used in hacker and domestic criminal investigations, ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Wed Sep 23 2009 | EU Funding Artificial Intelligence Snooping System "Britain's Telegraph reports on a five-year research programme, called Project Indect, which aims to develop computer programmes which act as 'agents' to monitor and process information from web sites, discussion forums, file servers, peer-to-peer networks and even individual computers. | From http://rss.slashdot.org |
| Wed Sep 16 2009 | Google Acquires reCAPTCHA to Fight Spam and Improve Google Books OCR Cool, from a machine learning standpoint but does this freak you out since Google could potentially have registration and use data for a huge number of sites around the web that leverage reCAPTCHA? | From http://www.readwriteweb.com |
| Wed Sep 16 2009 | GyPSii launches Android application Machine learning is employed so that the user profile continually evolves based on behaviour. Large scale analysis can be performed faster and with fewer machines than other techniques and data is processed as it becomes available ... | From http://uk.techcrunch.com |
| Wed Sep 9 2009 | Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden has a column discussing the potential dangers of building super-intelligent machines without building in some sort of motivation or drive. | From http://rss.slashdot.org |
| Sun Aug 23 2009 | Could Twitter Destroy Hollywood's Marketing Magic? As an aspiring PhD in Statistics and Machine Learning, I think the big problem is how heterogeous twitter data is - words with contextual meaning rather than numbers and well-ordered stuff. It might even be more difficult to have a good ... | From http://www.businessinsider.com |
| Sat Aug 15 2009 | Transfer Learning for Reinforcement Learning Domains: A Survey The reinforcement learning paradigm is a popular way to address problems that have only limited environmental feedback, rather than correctly labeled examples. | From http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu |
| Wed Aug 5 2009 | IBM gets $16 million to bolster its brain-on-a-chip technology While SyNAPSE basically seeks to replicate human brain function, DARPA has another project that seeks to develop an artificial intelligence system that can read, learn and develop knowledge about all manner of digital material in a ... | From http://www.networkworld.com |
| Wed Aug 5 2009 | For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore — sensor signals, surveillance tapes, social network chatter, public records and more. | From http://www.nytimes.com |
| Wed Aug 5 2009 | Netflix Announces Second Data Mining Challenge Chief Product Officer at Netflix has announced on the Netflix Prize Forums that they are planning to hold a new data mining ... | From http://tech.slashdot.org |
| Wed Aug 5 2009 | Common operating system for robots Roboticists at the recent International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence discussed the frustrating lack of a common operating system among today's robots. | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Sun Jul 5 2009 | IBM Releases Open Source Machine Learning Compiler seriously this post talk about machine learning optimization will it be ... | From http://tech.slashdot.org |
| Mon Jun 29 2009 | Automating Invention: Artificial creativity, software, computers Genetic algorithms (GA) have entered into the video game arena with Firemint's new highly anticipated Real Racing simulator, soon to be launched for the iPhone. Rather than using the traditional hardcoded method where drivers in the ... | From http://www.automatinginvention.com |
| Mon Jun 29 2009 | Experimental Video Game Evolves Its Own Content "Just as interest in user-generated content in video games is heating up, a team of researchers at the University of Central Florida has released an experimental multiplayer game in which content items compete with each other in an evolutionary arms race to satisfy the players. | From http://games.slashdot.org |
| Mon Jun 1 2009 | 50 Great Examples of Data Visualization Data mining in a visual form has been a long time challenge, especially in the vast network of social websites. The comparison of tags, connections and even profiles, shows a general perspective that people are interconnected and are ... | From http://www.webdesignerdepot.com |
| Mon May 18 2009 | Businesses hunting for gold with data mining Companies gathering more data, and they are using increasingly sophisticated tools to use data mining and modelling to improve their businesses. | From http://www.zdnetasia.com |
| Sat May 16 2009 | Credit Cards: Your Credit Card Company Is Building A Psychological Profile of you Lenders have been using this sort of data mining ever since, but until recently they've kept it on the down-low to avoid triggering any privacy fears from customers. Now, with billions of dollars of losses from formerly profitable ... | From http://consumerist.com |
| Wed May 13 2009 | Game theory and machine learning offer better bidding strategies By combining techniques from game theory and artificial intelligence, computer scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a better way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction modeled after commodity and financial securities markets. | From http://www.physorg.com |
| Sat May 2 2009 | Data Mining and the Death of Privacy Google has all your search information. It has all the e-mails you've written. Your tweets are next. | From http://www.pcmag.com |
| Tue Apr 28 2009 | IBM supercomputer to take on Jeopardy quiz show IBM has set its sights on US quiz show Jeopardy for an upcoming supercomputer challenge that could have important implications for practical artificial intelligence programming. | From http://www.crn.com.au |
| Sat Apr 11 2009 | Statebook: how UK gov't spooks see the Internet Because the -actual- facebook isn't a huge repository of personal information on individuals that could be used for data mining purposes, is it? But Facebook are a PRIVATE company, they would NEVER give people's personal information ... | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Wed Apr 1 2009 | Robot gardeners MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab researchers have installed an indoor tomato garden tended by hacked Roombas. The idea made me nostalgic for Ken Goldberg's pioneering Tele-garden that was online from 1995 to 2004. | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Mon Mar 23 2009 | Machine Learning Summer School 2009 The 13'th Machine Learning Summer School will be held in Cambridge, UK. The school will offer an overview of basic and advanced topics in machine learning | From http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk |
| Sun Mar 15 2009 | Data Mining Moves to Human Resources Using sophisticated mathematics, HR departments are learning new ways to determine the value of each employee. | From http://www.businessweek.com |
| Thu Mar 5 2009 | Congressional Data Mining: Coming Soon? Mother Jones Dek: How a little-noticed provision in a House spending bill could revolutionize access to congressional information. Short Body: By slipping a simple, ... | From http://www.motherjones.com |
| Thu Mar 5 2009 | Why the herd mentality won't make you rich The piece was entitled 'Reinforcement Learning Signal Predicts Social Conformity'. What it revealed is relevant to you and all investors. The gist of it is that our brains are geared to mimic our peers. When we fall in line with the ... | From http://www.moneyweek.com |
| Thu Mar 5 2009 | UN expert: Data mining a threat to human rights Unfettered collection of personal data by intelligence agencies is a threat to basic human rights, a ... | From http://www.jpost.com |
| Fri Feb 20 2009 | Too Much Information? Critics Decry Sites That Mine Public Data Increased usage of public information by political activists and media organizations has ... | From http://www.foxnews.com |
| Fri Feb 20 2009 | Data mining firm makes process pocket-sized DigiMine introduces a way to track the behavior of people who surf the Web from wireless devices, an innovation experts say could provoke more targeted ads ... | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Mon Feb 16 2009 | Pentaho buys open-source data-mining project Business intelligence start-up Pentaho buys the Weka project to fill out its suite. | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Fri Feb 13 2009 | Data Mining in the Meltdown: the Last, Best Hope? Today In Finance Arthur Kordon, leader in the data mining and modeling group at the Dow Chemical Co., says his team has never been so inundated with requests as it has been during the economic crisis. | From http://community.dynamics.com |
| Fri Feb 13 2009 | Data Mining in the Meltdown: the Last, Best Hope? In times of economic uncertainty, corporate decision makers need every scrap of information they can get to make an informed decision. | From http://www.cfo.com |
| Wed Feb 4 2009 | Algorithms gone wild: credit card minimum payments Because of his interest, over the years, I have paid a lot of attention to the role math and data mining play in influencing consumer financial health. Well, it turns out credit card companies have been paying close ... | From http://womensmoney.com |
| Mon Feb 2 2009 | Data Mining Processes: Selection and Extraction A marketing database may contain extensive tables of customer data from purchasing records, lifestyle data, and more advanced demographic data such as ... | From http://customer-management.suite101.com |
| Sun Feb 1 2009 | AmEx Denies Existence Of A Store Blacklist Ron Lieber at the Times dug out his fedora and wrote up an excellent summary describing the depth of AmEx's data mining. The company relies on "hundreds of data points," including: Shopping Patterns: Let's not kid ourselves, ... | From http://consumerist.com |
| Mon Jan 26 2009 | NSA's data mining explained As political concern grows over the National Security Agency's data-mining project, CNET News.com answers some questions. | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Mon Jan 26 2009 | Government data-mining lives on Declan McCullagh explains that aspects of the Pentagon's data- mining plan may not be quite as dead and buried as many had assumed. | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Fri Jan 23 2009 | How Bees Sees Can Teach Us About Computerized Facial Recognition Imaging Systems ...artificial intelligence and computer programs for facial recognition could get a boost by work from Dr. Adrian Dyer of Monash University, one of Australia's leading bee experts... he says his latest research shows that ... | From http://www.scientificblogging.com |
| Mon Jan 19 2009 | Using Machine Learning to Break Visual Human Interaction Proofs Machine learning is often used to automatically solve human tasks. ···. intervention, using machine learning. | From http://research.microsoft.com |
| Thu Jan 8 2009 | Data Analysts Captivated by R's Power R is also the name of a popular programming language used by a growing number of data analysts inside corporations and academia. It is becoming their lingua franca partly because data mining has entered a golden age, whether being used to set ad prices, find new drugs more quickly or fine-tune financial models. | From http://www.nytimes.com |
| Thu Jan 8 2009 | Could your social networks spill your secrets? In an article at the end of last year we looked at some of the ways data-mining techniques are being used by marketeers and security services to extract sometimes private information by assembling huge amounts of data from web visits, ... | From http://www.newscientist.com |
| Mon Jan 5 2009 | Data Mining Rescues Investigative Journalism The goal: Computer algorithms that can sort through the huge amounts of databased information available on the Internet, providing public-interest reporters with sets of potential story leads they otherwise might never have found. Or, in short, data mining in the public interest. | From http://news.slashdot.org |
| Mon Jan 5 2009 | Digital Spelunking: Data mining failure The authors' ire is aimed not at data mining directed at specific suspected individuals, but rather at broader scanning of the general population aimed at finding scary patterns. "If it were possible to automatically find the digital ... | From http://www.reason.com |
| Mon Jan 5 2009 | Wait, You Mean Homeland Security Isn't Already Scanning Blogs I know the government has admitting to data mining and the excuse is that the data is so large it's almost useless for anything except mining for certain bits of information. I don't like that - not because I really thing they're spying ... | From http://techdirt.com |
| Wed Dec 3 2008 | Panel: Gov't data mining, intel sharing programs lack oversight Government information collection and sharing programs are too secretive, security and privacy experts told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday. | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Wed Dec 3 2008 | Security, civil liberties experts question data-mining The US Congress should limit government data-mining efforts because some techniques don't work and many raise serious privacy concerns, two experts said Monday. | From http://feeds.computerworld.com |
| Tue Oct 28 2008 | Biometric identifcation by body language Through techniques similar to those used in speech recognition, this project applies machine learning (an Artificial Intelligence technique) to train a computer system to compare the detected body language of an individual in a video, ... | From http://www.boingboing.net |
| Thu Oct 23 2008 | Banks Target Troubled Borrowers Using Data-Mining Tools Banks and lenders make no secret of the fact that they rely on their own and the credit-card companies' data mining, analysis and predictive-modeling software to scour databases ... | From http://advice.cio.com |
| Sat Oct 18 2008 | How can terror data mining spare false positives? It's a crucial issue that I discussed in the book and have been stressing on the speaking rounds: Data mining for terrorists runs the risk of nabbing lots of innocent people--false positives in the lingo of statisticians. | From http://www.thenumerati.net |
| Tue Oct 7 2008 | Data-mining sucks: official report A multi-year National Research Council review of data-mining as a means of discovering terrorists has concluded that this just doesn't work very well, and that it ends up harming and harassing -- and terrorizing -- innocents whose only ... | From http://feeds.boingboing.net |
| Tue Oct 7 2008 | Government report concludes data-mining doesn't work very well The most extensive report ever compiled on government data mining in hopes of detecting terrorists concludes the idea is "neither feasible as an objective nor desirable as a goal of technology development efforts." | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Mon Sep 8 2008 | Exclusive: Legal experts suggest widespread mobile phone location A recent article in the London Review of Books revealed that a number of private companies now sell off-the-shelf data mining solutions to government spies interested in analyzing mobile phone calling records and real-time location ... | From http://news.cnet.com |
| Mon Sep 1 2008 | BI 2.0 Means Change for IT BI mashups don't force IT to give up control ... they do change what IT does and put the focus on data quality and data integration. | From http://feeds.computerworld.com |
| Mon Aug 25 2008 | Mass Customized Medicine in the Future? A problem often arises: in many cases the treated group does not do better than the nontreated group. A basic question is: does this mean the treatment is bad? With respect to the filter F it may mean that, but with respect to another filter F', the treatment might be very effective. For example, a drug might work great for people which have one blood type, but not so well for others. | From http://hunch.net |
| Fri Aug 22 2008 | Isads: Using images to detect melanoma From removing artifacts to finding lesion boundaries to extracting color characteristics, we develop algorithms that are driven by domain-knowledge, employ computer vision techniques and statistical machine learning to keep improving ... | From http://blogs.intel.com |
| Thu Aug 14 2008 | Data Mining to Detect Pump-and-Dump Scams I don't know any of the details, but this seems like a good use of data mining:. Mr Tancredi said Verisign's fraud detection kit would help "decrease the time between the attack being launched and the brokerage being able to respond". | From http://www.schneier.com |
| Tue Aug 5 2008 | B2B Data Mining By Gordon S. Linoff(Michael J. A. Berry) Last week, I travelled to Malaysia to apply data mining techniques to business-to-business (B2B) problems. More typically, the work we do at data miners is in the world of business-to-consumer (B2C) , since a company with millions of ... | From http://www.data-miners.com |
| Sun Aug 3 2008 | Data Mining Old Ship's Logs Researchers today have a host of advanced techniques to gather environmental data, from satellite imagery to ice core samples, but they don't have much in ... | From http://technocrat.net |
| Tue Jul 29 2008 | Scientists Make Pattern Recognition More Human "Most common machine learning algorithms can only learn representations of a single kind," said study co-author Charles Kemp, a Carnegie Mellon University ... | From http://blog.wired.com |
| Sat Jul 26 2008 | CIOs Uncensored: Some Still Bullish On IT Budgets, Others Not Numerous data mining and CRM projects will likely slow or stop, as will upgrades and efforts around visualization--unless the payback period is within ... | From http://www.informationweek.com |
| Thu Jul 24 2008 | Capturing game data is the future The US government is courting a report that outlines data mining initiatives that could identify potential terrorist activities in online games. | From http://www.guardian.co.uk |
| Thu Jul 17 2008 | Tweaking user interfaces to match abilities, disabilities They presented their latest work at the 2008 conference of the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, where they described Supple++, their most promising ... | From http://arstechnica.com |
| Tue Jul 15 2008 | Avrim Blum and Tom Mitchell Win ICML/COLT 10-Year Best Paper Award The ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) and COLT (Annual Conference on Learning Theory) conferences, two of the major symposia in the areas of machine learning and learning theory, ... Avrim Blum and Tom Mitchell have won the inaugural award, for their seminal paper, "Combining labeled and unlabeled data with co-training," which was published in COLT 1998 | From http://www.csdhead.cs.cmu.edu |
| Mon Jul 14 2008 | Microsoft Buys Zoomix to Add Data Quality to SQL Server Zoomix's Accelerator software combines semantic and linguistic analysis with machine learning to classify, match and standardize complex corporate data, ... | From http://www.pcworld.com |
| Sun Jul 13 2008 | Artificial Intelligence Tied to Search Future AI (Artificial intelligence) has the potential to enhance Internet searches, but obstacles still must be overcome, a speaker stressed at a technical ... | From http://www.pcworld.com |
| Thu Jul 10 2008 | Data mining drug warnings, side effects for new therapies One of the more frustrating aspects of drug development is the fact that chemicals that perform ... | From http://arstechnica.com |
| Thu Jul 10 2008 | Yahoo Wants You To Build Your Own Search Service ... and core infrastructure -- from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, ... | From http://www.informationweek.com |
| Mon Jul 7 2008 | New Car Navigation System Monitors Traffic To Avoid Traffic Jams The Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine (CADRE) uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to interpret live traffic information shared between vehicles ... | From http://www.sciencedaily.com |
| Mon Jul 7 2008 | Domestic spying quietly goes on The surveillance includes data-mining programs that allow the NSA and the FBI to sift through large databanks of e-mails, phone calls and other ... | From http://www.baltimoresun.com |
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