Monthly Archives: November 2012

Interested in machine learning?  Are you a producer or consumer of machine learning algorithms? Do you have a problem that you think machine learning might solve?

The Illinois Informatics Institute will be hosting a weekly series of informal meetings to discuss machine learning related topics. The meetings will be held on Wednesdays from noon to 1 PM. The first meeting will take place this Wednesday, December 5th at the NCSA building room 2100.

David Tcheng and Boris Capitanu, from I3’s Automated Learning Group (ALG) will be running the meetings. All University faculty staff and students are invited to attend. Feel free to bring food and drinks for yourself and others.

The meetings will start with a short (10 min) presentation of someone’s machine learning work followed by open ended discussion.  For the first meeting, David Tcheng will present his latest machine learning research on analyzing gene expression data to discovering cancer subtypes using a high performance GPU based clustering algorithm.

Interested in discovering how the Internet, geoweb and social media are changing the way we use and understand places? Would you like the opportunity to use the DOLLY project to explore geo-social media?

 If so, the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky is currently accepting applications for graduate study at the Masters and Ph.D. level in the exciting arenas of online mapping, big data and critical social analysis. We're particularly interested in folks who blend experience in the technical/coding side of things with a desire to think carefully through the big socio-spatial theoretical questions that arise in concert with these technologies. To get a better sense of what this program of study might entail, take a closer look at some of the recent academic publications that have emerged from FloatingSheep such as work on augmented reality, user-generated geographies of religion and disaster relief as well as the virtual economy and economic flows. 

http://www.floatingsheep.org/2012/11/funding-for-graduate-work-in.html