Posted by Fernando Pereira, Google ResearchAlon Halevy, Peter Norvig, and I argue that we should stop acting as if our goal is to author extremely elegant theories, and instead embrace complexity and make use of the best ally we have: the unreasonable effectiveness of data. See the full article here (IEEE Intelligent Systems, March/April 200...
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
Thursday, 19 March 2009
Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards: Improving industry understanding and practices in online marketing
Posted on 11:10 by Unknown
Posted by Jeff Walz, University Relations and Anne Bray, Head of Agency, WPPGoogle and the WPP Group have teamed up to create a new research program with the goal of improving industry understanding of digital marketing. Eleven research awards have been given to universities through the Google and WPP Marketing Research Awards Program, announced by both companies in the fall of 2008. The academic studies will harness WPP client data to explore how online media influences consumer behavior, attitudes, and decision making. The research provides...
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
And the award goes to...
Posted on 09:22 by Unknown
Posted by Fernando Pereira, Research DirectorCorinna Cortes, Head of Google Research in New York, has just been awarded the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award jointly with Vladimir Vapnik (Royal Holloway College and NEC Research). The award recognizes their invention in the early 1990s of the soft-margin support vector machine, which has become the supervised machine learning method of choice for applications ranging from image analysis to document classification to bioinformatics.What is so important about this invention? In supervised...
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