Virginia Tech’s Irving John (Jack) Good, one of the founders of modern Bayesian inference and a member of the World War II code-breaking team at Bletchley Park, died of natural causes on April 5 in Radford
(interview completed 2008-09-14);
Amy Hendrickson has made her living for over twenty years as a TeX/LaTeX macro writer for publishing companies and academic societies; she also does book production and teaches LaTeX.
I am currently an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. I am also a visiting researcher at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
In general my research interests lie in the area of machine learning. More specifically, I am interested in Bayesian statistics, clustering, semi-supervised learning and kernel methods. I have also done research which applies machine learning techniques to problems in computational biology, computer security, and computer vision.
I am a researcher in the Text Mining, Search and Navigation group. I am also affiliated with the Machine Learning and Applied Statistics and the Natural Language Processing groups.
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The digital footprint of Gian-Carlo Rota
16-18 February 2009 - Milan, Italy
The conference is a tribute to the memory of Gian-Carlo Rota, one of the most influential mathematicians of the second half of the 20th century, a founder of modern Combinatorics, and a developer of the philosophical line of thought rooted in the research of Husserl, Heidegger, and Ortega y Gasset.
Gian-Carlo Rota's intellectual footprint lies at the crossroads between modern mathematics, phenomenology, and advanced computer science. His legacy is still fostering innovative research in multiple fields.
Gian-Carlo Rota's activity both in the US and in Europe (with a special attention to Italy) established a strong link between research communities on different sides of the Atlantic whose effects are still felt to these days.
Florence Nightingale: The passionate statistician
She pioneered the use of applied statistics to develop policy and developed novel ways of displaying them.
By Julie Rehmeyer
Web edition : Wednesday, November 26th, 200
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Washington
I got my PhD in CS from Berkeley, advised by Christos Papadimitriou.
After that, I did a postdoc in Avi's group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Research interests:
Algorithms, complexity, optimization.
High-dimensional geometry, geometry of discrete metric spaces, spectral graph theory.
Applications of geometry and analysis in theoretical computer science.