I’m the workshops chair for ICML this year. As such, I would like to personally encourage people to consider running a workshop. My general view of workshops is that they are excellent as opportunities to discuss and develop research directions—some...

If you search for “online learning” with any major search engine, it’s interesting to note that zero of the results are for online machine learning. This may not be a mistake if you are committed to a global ordering. In other words, the number of...

The NYAS ML symposium grew again this year to 170 participants, despite the need to outsmart or otherwise tunnel through a crowd. Perhaps the most distinct talk was by Bob Bell on various aspects of the Netflix prize competition. I also enjoyed...

I’d like to point out Yisong Yue’s post on Self-improving systems, which is a nicely readable description of the necessity and potential of interactive learning to deal with the information overload problem that is endemic to the modern...

Many of the NIPS workshops have a deadline about now, and the NIPS early registration deadline is Nov. 6. Several interest me: Adaptive Sensing, Active Learning, and Experimental Design due 10/27. Discrete Optimization in Machine Learning:...