Recently I attended a talk by David Blei about probabilistic models of text and images. His thesis described probabilistic models for the retrieval, organization, and exploration of large information collections, casting this tasks as statistical queries. The abstract of his thesis ca be found here and the thesis itself here.
As of December 1st, the club will no longer be open for free bouting on Thursdays. It will be opened on Thursdays only for clinics and special events as announced. The new club hours are as follows: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday: 6:00-9:30pm Saturday: noon-4:00pm
by Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Lluís Formiga, Kumara Sastry, and David E. Goldberg (2006, accepted). IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2006). May 14-19, 2006. Also as IlliGAL TR No 2005022. Link to the PDF. Abstract Active interactive genetic algorithms (aiGAs) rely on actively optimizing synthetic fitness functions. In interactive genetic algorithms (iGAs) framework, user evaluations provide the necessary input for synthesizing a reasonably accurate surrogate fitness function that models user evaluations or, in other words, his/her decision preferences....
Recently Jack Park from Iris Semantic Network left a comment asking, among other things, if DISCUS was going open source. This is an interesting question. DISCUS is currently under two patent pending processes. However, the current policies at NCSA, one of the DISCUS partners, is to push toward open source. We are currently finishing a first release of DISCUS International with support for English and Japanese. When it passes the release quality standards, some parts of DISCUS will be disseminated, may be as open source code....
Torsten Horthorn maintains a page with a list of packages for machine learning and statistical learning in R.