[wplug] Fwd: Fwd: Forum 9:30am Sunday March 15. Machine Learning: What's all the fuss about? William Cohen, PhD; Hosted by Suzanne Powell.

[Zachary Uram]

It doesn't say where the talk will be.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:03 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Date:   Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:46:16 -0400
> From:   David Tessitor <davetessitor at pghfree.net>
> To:     Brian Sammon <bsammon at fastmail.fm>, oflameo2 at gmail.com
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> Picture of William Cohen*March 15.**Machine Learning: **What's all the
> fuss about?**William Cohen, PhD; Hosted by Suzanne Powell. *
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> *Precis:*Machine learning is a scientific discipline that explores the
> construction and study of algorithms that can learn from data.
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> *Abstract: *Such algorithms operate by building a model from example
> inputs and using that to make predictions or decisions, rather than
> following strictly static program instructions.  Over the last few years
> machine learning and related fields have become increasingly popular,
> with small startups selling for hundreds of millions of dollars and the
> job of "data scientist" being called the sexiest job of the 21st
> century.  In this talk William Cohen, an long-time researcher in machine
> learning and professor in CMU's Machine Learning Department, will break
> things down and answer questions like: what is machine learning? why is
> it suddenly so important? and, what can and can't it do?* *
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> *Bio: *William Cohen is Professor, Machine Learning Department and
> Language Technology Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Director of
> the Undergraduate Minor in Machine Learning and Co-Director of the
> Master's of Science in Machine Learning program. He received his
> bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Duke University in 1984, and
> a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University in 1990. From 1990 to
> 2000 Dr. Cohen worked at AT&T Bell Labs and later AT&T Labs-Research,
> and from April 2000 to May 2002 Dr. Cohen worked at Whizbang Labs, a
> company specializing in extracting information from the web. Dr. Cohen
> is a past president of the International Machine Learning Society, an
> Action Editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, and an
> Action Editor for the journal ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery
> from Data. He is also an editor, with Ron Brachman, of the AI and
> Machine Learning series of books published by Morgan Claypool. In the
> past he has also served as an action editor for the journal Machine
> Learning, the journal Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of
> Artificial Intelligence Research. He was General Chair for the 2008
> International Machine Learning Conference, held July 6-9 at the
> University of Helsinki, in Finland; Program Co-Chair of the 2006
> International Machine Learning Conference; and Co-Chair of the 1994
> International Machine Learning Conference. Dr. Cohen was also the
> co-Chair for the 3rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media,
> which was held May 17-20, 2009 in San Jose, and was the co-Program Chair
> for the 4rd Int'l AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. He is a
> AAAI Fellow, and was a winner of the 2008 the SIGMOD "Test of Time"
> Award for the most influential SIGMOD paper of 1998, and the 2014  SIGIR
> "Test of Time" Award for the most influential SIGIR paper of 2002-2004.
> Dr. Cohen's research interests include information integration and
> machine learning, particularly information extraction, text
> categorization and learning from large datasets. He holds seven patents
> related to learning, discovery, information retrieval, and data
> integration, and is the author of more than 200 publications.
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> *Obscure fact: * For those many friends whose research he has built on,
> be warned. His full name, "William Weston Cohen", is an anagram of the
> phrase "I now cite shallow men". (From Sara Cohen - no relation! - comes
> this warning: "Women's rights activists would probably request you to
> use the following anagram instead: 'I shall now cite women'".)
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> When he’s not working his day job, he avoids productive behavior by
> playing music.
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