Davor has been working to setup videolectures.net which is the new site for the many lectures mentioned here. (Tragically, they seem to only be available in windows media format.) I went through my own projects and added a few links to the videos. The day when every result is a set of {paper, slides, video} isn’t quite here yet, but it’s within sight. (For many papers, of course, code is a 4th component.)
Create Your Own ICML Workshop
As usual ICML 2007 will be hosting a workshop program to be held this year on June 24th. The success of the program depends on having researchers like you propose interesting workshop topics and then organize the workshops. I’d like to encourage all of you to consider sending a workshop proposal. The proposal deadline has been extended to March 5. See the workshop web-site for details.
Organizing a workshop is a unique way to gather an international group of researchers together to focus for an entire day on a topic of your choosing. I’ve always found that the cost of organizing a workshop is not so large, and very low compared to the benefits. The topic and format of a workshop are limited only by your imagination (and the attractiveness to potential participants) and need not follow the usual model of a mini-conference on a particular ML sub-area. Hope to see some interesting proposals rolling in.
2007 Summer Machine Learning Conferences
It’s conference season once again.
| Conference | Due? | When? | Where? | double blind? | author feedback? | Workshops? |
| AAAI | February 1/6 (and 27) | July 22-26 | Vancouver, British Columbia | Yes | Yes | Done |
| UAI | February 28/March 2 | July 19-22 | Vancouver, British Columbia | No | No | No |
| COLT | January 16 | June 13-15 | San Diego, California (with FCRC) | No | No | No |
| ICML | February 7/9 | June 20-24 | Corvallis, Oregon | Yes | Yes | February 16 |
| KDD | February 23/28 | August 12-15 | San Jose, California | Yes | No? | February 28 |
The geowinner this year is the west coast of North America. Last year‘s geowinner was the Northeastern US, and the year before it was mostly Europe. It’s notable how tightly the conferences cluster, even when they don’t colocate.
2006 NIPS workshops
I expect the NIPS 2006 workshops to be quite interesting, and recommend going for anyone interested in machine learning research. (Most or all of the workshops webpages can be found two links deep.)
AOL’s data drop
AOL has released several large search engine related datasets. This looks like a pretty impressive data release, and it is a big opportunity for people everywhere to worry about search engine related learning problems, if they want.