The talk should include the following:
1. What is the application? Motivate it.
2. Why machine learning/data mining was needed?
3. How did machine learning/data mining help? What techniques were utilized?
4. Your view(s) on it.
The duration of each talk is 10-12 minutes, with questions allowed after the talk. Please provide Xiaomei with a copy of your presentation before the class so that she can copy them on the webspace and download to the PC in the classroom.
April 11th: 1. Dave 2. Jared 3. Andy 4. Troy 5. James
April 13th: 1. Chris 2. Todd 5. Gautam 4. Daniel 5. Xialong
Department of Homeland Security and data mining.
Cyber detective using data mining (Dave C.)
Machine learns games 'like a human'
Self-learning machines for document interpretation and analysis
Data Mining for NBA (Andy C.)
Jester 3.0 - Jokes for Your sense of Humor
Lessons and Challenges from Mining Retail eCommerce Data
Sodarace (Todd S.)
TaskTracer (Daniel M.)
Music Recomendation System for iTunes
Air-Hockey (Jared S.)
"Researchers at the PARC are developing software that detects how engaged you are in your telephone conversations. The aim is for your phone to help you transition between a slew of mobile services, from push-to-talk to videochat." (Gautam S.)
Interaction is the key to Applications of Machine Learning
Model Development and Validation
Moody's Risk Management Services
Mirage is a Java-based software tool for exploratory analysis and visualization of images and multi-dimensional numerical data from an arbitrary domain of study. The tool shows projected images of points, point classes, or proximity structures in one, two, or higher dimensional subspaces, in linked views of tables, histograms, scatter plots, parallel coordinate plots, graphs, and trees, and over image or hypertext backgrounds linked with the data.
Interview: From MS Anti-Spam to Vaccines (Xiaolong L.)
A Method to March Madness? (Troy R.)
Amazon.com patent:
United States Patent 6,865,546
Technology News: Security: Groups Claim Amazon Patent Targets Kids' Privacy
Online purchases could give you away