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Machine Learning Summer School – June 14,16 2010, Bangalore, India

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Machine Learning Summer School 2010’ will be hosted from June 14 – 19, 2010 at IISc Bangalore, from Yahoo! India Research & Development, in partnership with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore. This summer school is targeted towards academia as well as industry with a focus to deliver practical learning with or without machine learning exposure.

Schedule:

Jun-14 (morning) Nando De Freitas/Alex Smola
Introduction to ML/Graphical Models
Jun-14 (afternoon) Nando De Freitas
Gaussian Processes
Jun-15 (morning) Chiru Bhattacharyya
Support Vector Machines
Jun-15 (afternoon) Alex Smola
Graphical Models and Kernels
Jun-16 (morning) Jayant Haritsa
Association Rule Mining
Jun-16 (afternoon) Chiru Bhattacharyya
Kernel Methods
Jun-17 (morning) Nando De Freitas
Bayesian Optimization
Jun-17 (afternoon) Jayant Haritsa
Privacy Preserving Mining
Jun-18 (morning) John Langford
Transformation of learning problem
Jun-18 (afternoon) John Langford
Learning in contextual bandit settings
Jun-19 (morning) Deepak Agarwal
Recommender problems: matrix factorization
Jun-19 (afternoon) Deepak Agarwal
Recommender problems: multi-resolution models

More details visit :http://bangalore.yahoo.com/labs/summerschool.html

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Microsoft Predestination: Predicting your travel destinations!

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Lets watch Microsoft SVP for Microsoft Research Dr. Rick Rashid talk more about Predestination:

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R2 from NASA & GM Teams

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

R2, short for Robonaut 2, is heading to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Discovery in September. R2 is able to perform experiments in micro-gravity, working with astronauts on multiple experiments.

During the last three years, a team of General Motors and NASA employees, at the Houston’s Johnson Space center,  designed, engineered and build the 300-pound, human-like machine, today known as R2.

On board the ISS, R2 will be in testing phase and is said to undergo various enhancements in the future to make it truly ideal as a Space Robonaut.

[CNN]

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AlSight Behavioral Analytics software wins the Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase (NPS) Award

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Behavioral Recognition Systems, Inc. (BRS Labs) has announced that its AlSight Behavioral Analytics software has won the Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase (NPS) Award in Video Analytics at ISC West.  It is the first to use Artificial Neural Network (ANN) technology for the accurate recognition and classification of objects and behavior.

AISight Features:

  • Takes input from current and legacy cameras, recorded video or data files
  • Recognizes, remembers and tracks objects frame by frame
  • Rapidly learns what is acceptable behavior for any situation
  • Identifies and predicts abnormal, suspicious and aggressive behavior
  • Provides a wide range of alert systems to a human operator
  • Requires no additional operator training
  • Requires no changes to the existing infrastructure

About BRS Labs:

BRS Labs is a software development company that has created the industry’s first behavioral analysis system for video surveillance that adaptively learns behavior patterns in complex environments. BRS Labs is the only company that has been able to apply computer-vision and machine-learning capabilities to video analytics, thereby greatly enhancing operator awareness and effectiveness in improving security. No human is required to define parameters for the software to recognize behavior or objects; the software reports unusual or suspicious behaviors based on memories it has acquired through observations over time. BRS Labs was founded in November 2005 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas. The company is funded by $50 million in private equity.

[BRS Labs]

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