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Microsoft launches Cortana Analytics Suite with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and more in a monthly subscription

Microsoft today announced Cortana Analytics Suite, a new package of data storage, information management, machine learning, and business intelligence software in a single convenient monthly subscription. Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant, until now available to consumers on mobile devices and PCs, is part of the new package, designed to give non-technical people a simple interface

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An Easy Way to Create Algorithm Visualizations

Google’s DeepDream project has gone viral which allows to visualize the deep learning neural networks. It highlights a need for a generalized algorithm visualization tool, in this post we introduce to you one such effort. By Daniel Moisset, (Machinalis.com). We have released an initial version of TheWalnut.io, a web application which allows creating and sharing

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10 ways our data overlords could serve us better

I honestly believe data can save the world if we get out of its way. This getting out of the way of data goes by another name: transparency. While I deeply respect the people who still fight the battle for our privacy, privacy and the Fourth Amendment are pretty much dead. The “man” will always

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Of course. There is now a Hacker News for deep learning

Machine learning startup Startup.ML today unveiled a new website called Deep Learning News. It’s a place to go to find information online about deep learning, which is an increasingly trendy type of artificial intelligence. The new site is in the style of Hacker News, a popular online water cooler for programmers from prominent Silicon Valley

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CIKM Machine Learning Competition 2015

CIKM Machine Learning Competition 2015 The 24th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) will be held from Oct 19-23, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia. CIKM 2015 is pleased to announce a machine learning competition, hosted and sponsored by its partner Sportsbet. The competition is open for academia and industry and can be accessed

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Textkernel Joins Forces with CareerBuilder to Deliver Powerful, Multilingual Semantic Search and Matching Technologies to Recruiters

CareerBuilder announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Textkernel, a leading-edge software company providing semantic recruitment technology to the global market. The acquisition further supports CareerBuilder’s evolution into an HR software as a service provider and enables Textkernel to accelerate its global growth.Based in Amsterdam, Textkernel is leading innovation in the field

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Final CFP: 2nd Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2015)

Call for Participation Second Asian Summer School in Information Access (ASSIA 2015) http://assia2015.lib.ntnu.edu.tw/ Information Retrieval (IR) is the activity of obtaining information resources from information repositories according to users’ information need. The summer schools in Information Retrieval have been very successful in Europe where research students, young faculty members, or industrial researchers can get a

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Summary of “The Future of Data Science – Data Science @ Stanford”

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxXIJnjC_HI&feature=em-uploademail Participants: Dan Boneh, PhD, Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, Stanford University; Euan Ashley, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Stanford University; Vijay Pande, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University; Hector Garcia-Molina, PhD, Professor of Engineering & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; John Hennessy, PhD How Data Science has revolutionised different

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10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015)

10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) August 31 – September 4, 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece – http://mklab.iti.gr/essir2015/ The 10th European Summer School in Information Retrieval (ESSIR 2015) will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece between August 31 – September 4, 2015 hosted by the Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory (MKLab) of the

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DGfS-CL Fall School 2015

The Computational Linguistics Fall School is held biennially under the auspices of the German Linguistic Society’s Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics (DGfS-CL). It is aimed at Bachelor- and Master-level students of computational linguistics or related subjects (e.g. computer science, formal linguistics) who wish to broaden their knowledge of techniques and methods used in natural

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