Written by Alexander Raginsky Last month, Microsoft released “Future Visions,” an anthology of short stories written by some of today’s top science fiction writers based in part on the writers’ access to Microsoft researchers and their labs. The eBook is available for free from Amazon and other sites. Today, we offer an anthology of a different sort. This is
Written by Alexander Raginsky Call for Papers for the PhD Symposium at the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2016) The PhD Symposium is held in conjunction with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2016), April 11-15, 2016, Montreal, Canada.
Written by Alexander Raginsky PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT iV&LSS 2016: Deep Learning The 2nd Summer School on Integrating Vision and Language 21?24 March 2016, University of Malta, Malta Organised by ICT COST Action IC1307 The European Network on Integrating Vision and Language (iV&L Net) – Combining Computer Vision and Language Processing For Advanced Search, Retrieval, Annotation and Description of Visual Data
Written by Alexander Raginsky Machine learning techniques may have been used for years, but recently there has been an explosion in their applications. In fact, in a recent Q3 earnings call, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said “Machine learning is a core, transformative way by which we’re re-thinking how we’re doing everything.” And they’re far from the only business making
Written by Alexander Raginsky NAACL 2016 Student Research Workshop (SRW) CALL FOR PAPERS ### NAACL 2016 Student Research Workshop (SRW) ### The SRW workshop will be held in conjunction with NAACL HLT 2016 in Diego, California. Main conference: June 13-15, 2016 Paper Submission Deadline: March 11, 2016 (11:59pm PST) ### General Invitation for Submission #### The Student Research Workshop
Written by Alexander Raginsky Microsoft Research and the Carnegie Mellon University have created a computer that can analyse a situation and answer multi-layered questions, according to a blog post. A multi-layered question is just that: A question with multiple elements that rely on each other. An example could be “What is in the basket?” In order to understand the
Written by Alexander Raginsky With the increasing automation of business processes, growing amounts of process data become available. This opens new research opportunities for business process data analysis, mining and modeling. The aim of the IFIP 2.6 International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis is to offer a forum where researchers from different communities and the industry can
Written by Alexander Raginsky MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of disease on brain anatomy. In experiments, they trained a machine-learning system on MRI data from patients with neurodegenerative diseases and found that supplementing that training with other patient information improved the system’s predictions. In the
Written by Alexander Raginsky Who here remembers taking computer programming in school? Whether you learned programming by punching holes in a never ending series of cards, or by writing simple DOS or other computer language commands, the fact remained that computers needed an incredibly precise set of instructions to accomplish a task. The more complicated the task, the more
Written by Alexander Raginsky We are pleased to announce availability of a limited number of Student Grants for attending FIRE 2015. This includes Student Travel Grants and Lower Registration rates for Student participants, details of which are mentioned at http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/student_grants. The deadline for application is 25th November. Applicants shall be notified about the decision by 28th November. Priority will
