Written by Alexander Raginsky Call for Student Volunteers ICTIR 2015 (http://ictir2015.org) is looking for student volunteers to participate in this year’s conference being held in Northampton, MA, USA on September 27-30, 2015. Volunteer commitments will vary, but at a minimum you will be expected to be available during one half of a conference day (a maximum of 8 hours).
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Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
Written by Alexander Raginsky 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
