Machine Learning
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The 2004 ML talks:

November 1		David Blei, Fast and flexible clustering---nonparametric Bayesian methods in machine learning
October 18		Daniel Neill, Rapid Detection of Significant Spatial Clusters
October 4		ICML 2004 Conference Review Session.
September 27		UAI/KDD 2004 Conference Review Session.
September 20		Mark Fuhs, Mixture Modeling and Spatial Representations in the Rat Hippocampus
August 31 (Tuesday)		Zoubin Ghahramani & Katherine Heller, Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering (Venue: NSH 3305, Time: 2:00 pm)
August 23		Matthias Seeger, Sparse Multi Gaussian Process Methods: Multi-way Classification and beyond (Venue: Wean Hall 4623)
May 10		Jeremy Kubica, Group Detection and Link Analysis
May 3		Sunita Sarawagi, Exploiting Dictionaries in Named Entity Extraction via Semi-Markov Models
April 26		Zoubin Ghahramani, Gaussian Processes and Extensions
April 19		Yuan Qi, Expectation Propagation for Graphical Models
April 12		Hakan L Younes, Decision-Theoretic Planning with Asynchronous Events
March 22		Ziv Bar-Joseph, Computational challenges in the analysis of time series gene expression data
March 15		Russell Greiner, Bayesian Error-Bars for Belief Net Inference
March 1		Anthony Brockwell, Mind-Machine Interfacing: Neural Decoding by Particle Filtering
February 23		John Langford, Reductions in Machine Learning
February 16		Larry Wasserman, Statistics With Balls and Envelopes
February 9		Rahul Sukthankar, Complete Cross-Validation
February 2		NIPS 2003 Conference Review Session. Dave Ferguson, Robotic Mine Mapping Mark V. Albert, Geometric Clustering using the Information Bottleneck method Allison Bruce, Hierarchical Topic Models and the Nested Chinese Restaurant Process
January 26		NIPS 2003 Conference Review Session. Drew Bagnell, Policy Search by Dynamic Programming Joelle Pineau & Drew Bagnell, Planning in the Real World Maxim Likhach, ARA*: Anytime A* with Provable Bounds on Sub-Optimality

The 2004 ML talks were organized by Edoardo Airoldi, Anna Goldenberg, Alexander Gray, Brendan McMahan, Pradeep Ravikumar and Jerry Zhu.