From mike at bayseksolutions.com Thu Aug 2 00:16:58 2007 From: mike at bayseksolutions.com (Michael J. Baysek) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 00:16:58 -0400 Subject: [Research] Pizza Party Thursday 8/2 Message-ID: Hi everyone. I just made 11.8 lbs of pizza dough around half of it is liquid, and obviously will evaporate when cooked, but nonetheless], so I know there will be enough no matter how many people decide to come. So far, I am expecting around 10 people. The party officially starts at ~ 6:30 PM, Pizza to be served around 7:15. Party is open until 9:00-10:00 PM. It doesn't matter if you are on time. Only that you come! If you are deciding to come at the last minute, please let me know, and how many guests. Spouses, etc, and kids are welcome! Also, the address is 105 Horizon Dr. 15237. Check the Google map. http://www.google.com/maps?q=105+Horizon+Dr,+Pittsburgh,+PA+15237,+USA&sa=X&oi=map&ct=title Also, nobody has sent their toppings preferences. 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Moore) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:26:32 -0400 Subject: [Research] Fwd: [Eng-pit] Google Seminar 8/17 @ 10:00a - David Jensen - Learning causal dependencies in networks In-Reply-To: <6fad4a180708141624s5a8da1e1he81fbae769b8e650@mail.gmail.com> References: <6fad4a180708141624s5a8da1e1he81fbae769b8e650@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <982f89350708141626l3f5f0db7ve4e70dcbaa2db870@mail.gmail.com> Dear Auton Labbers, David (a long time friend of Auton) is visiting this Friday. Let me know if in addition to his talk you'd like time to meet with him. Thanks, Andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cathy Serventi Date: Aug 14, 2007 7:24 PM Subject: [Eng-pit] Google Seminar 8/17 @ 10:00a - David Jensen - Learning causal dependencies in networks To: please forward as appropriate Please join us for a Google Seminar this Friday. Where: Google Pittsburgh, CIC Building, Lower Level, CMU Day: Friday, 8/17 Time: 10:00am Google Seminars are open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Learning causal dependencies in networks David Jensen Associate Professor of Computer Science Director, Knowledge Discovery Laboratory University of Massachusetts Amherst Over the past decade, machine learning researchers have developed techniques to estimate the joint distribution of a set of variables that span multiple related entities. These methods, often grouped under the rubric "relational learning", include probabilistic relational models, relational Markov networks, and relational dependency networks. These techniques build on work in artificial intelligence, statistics, databases, graph theory, and social network analysis, and they are profoundly expanding the phenomena that we can understand and predict. However, new frontiers await. In this talk, I will briefly survey some recent work in learning probabilistic models of relational data, and discuss several applications of these techniques, including fraud detection in the U.S. securities industry. I will argue that current techniques are capable of learning only a subset of the knowledge needed by practitioners in these domains, and that informing effective action often requires a causal model. I will examine the open question of whether relational representations make the problem of learning causal models easier or harder, and present some reasons for optimism that relational representations may be able to greatly improve our ability to learn such models. David Jensen is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Knowledge Discovery Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his doctorate from Washington University in 1992. From 1991 to 1995, he served as an analyst with the Office of Technology Assessment, an agency of the United States Congress. His research focuses on machine learning and knowledge discovery in relational data, with applications to social network analysis, web mining, and fraud detection. He serves on the program committees of the International Conference on Machine Learning and the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, and he serves on the ACM SIGKDD Executive Committee. He is a member of the 2006-2007 Defense Science Study Group. If you have questions or would like to be added to the Seminar mailing list please contact me: -- Cathy Serventi Google Pittsburgh Engineering Office Office: (412) 297-5400 serventi at google.com _______________________________________________ Eng-pit mailing list Eng-pit at google.com https://mailman.corp.google.com/mailman/listinfo/eng-pit -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awm at google.com Tue Aug 21 18:50:11 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:50:11 -0400 Subject: [Research] Google Pittsburgh press announcement tomorrow Message-ID: <982f89350708211550pac0c82dn78dc3feb67118aa9@mail.gmail.com> Dear Auton Lab folks, If you'd like free food and to see something pretty cool, please feel very encouraged to come to an event in Google Pittsburgh tomorrow. We'll be making a product announcement and it's cute and cool and it is loosely related to (but in absolutely no way competitive or scooping of) stuff in the old days of the Auton lab. noon-1.30 (main announce is at 12.30) Wed Aug 22 Andrew -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: