Dear Colleague,

This is to remind you of the following event.

Regards, - Durgesh, for ACM Mumbai.

ACM Seminar Friday, July 27, 2001 - 6:30 p.m. Title: Introduction to Machine Learning Speaker: Jayprasad J. Hegde Venue: Lecture Theatre, NCST, Juhu

Abstract: After an era where programs, AI based or otherwise, were meant largely for ideal (non-surprise mode) usage, people have come to realize that for an intelligent system to work in a real-life environment, adaptability has to be taken into account.

This is the reason that, although work utilizing Machine Learning concepts was already in progress in applications like Speech, the field is emerging from oblivion only now.

This can be gauged by the fact that a linguistic intensive field like Natural Language Technology is utilizing Machine Learning concepts more than ever, and an AI area like Data Mining (which primarily uses ML) is a buzzword in the software industry.

In this seminar, we will look at the overall picture of Machine Learning and see why it is required. We will look at a broad overview of the Machine Learning spectrum, from Inductive Learning to Clustering.

We will also specifically cover Inductive Machine Learning in more detail and the technologies used to implement it and finish off with the various exciting applications of Machine Learning.

About the Speaker: Jayprasad Hegde has been learning a lot from machines (especially his workstation which doesn't seem to work whenever necessary) and would like them to learn something from him. This motivation started his never-ending quest for learning machine learning :). When he is not learning or 'machine-learning' he is earning his bread and butter by doing work in the Natural Language Processing group in the KBCS division and feigning great knowledge in any area of AI.

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