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Machine Learning has become a key enabling technology for many engineering applications, investigating scientific questions and theoretical problems alike. To stimulate discussions and to disseminate new results, a summer school series was started in February 2002, the documentation of which is published as LNAI 2600.
This book presents revised lectures of two subsequent summer schools held in 2003 in Canberra, Australia and in Tübingen, Germany. The tutorial lectures included are devoted to statistical learning theory, unsupervised learning, Bayesian inference, and applications in pattern recognition; they provide in-depth overviews of exciting new developments and contain a large number of references.
Graduate students, lecturers, researchers and professionals alike will find this book a useful resource in learning and teaching machine learning.
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Olivier Bousquet Ulrike von Luxburg Gunnar Rätsch (Eds.)
Advanced Lectures on Machine Learning ML Summer Schools 2003 Canberra, Australia, February 2-14, 2003 Tübingen, Germany, August 4-16, 2003 Revised Lectures
Springer
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Speakers Canberra Shun-Ichi Amari Eleazar Eskin Zoubin Ghahramani Peter Hall Markus Hegland
Gabor Lugosi Jyrki Kivinen John Lloyd Shahar Mendelson Mike Osborne
Petra Phillips Gunnar Rätsch Alex Smola S.V.N. Vishwanathan Robert C. Williamson
André Elisseeff Arthur Gretton Peter Grünwald Thorsten Joachims Massimiliano Pontil Carl Rasmussen Mike Tipping Bernhard Schölkopf
Steve Smale Alex Smola Vladimir Vapnik Jason Weston Elad Yom-Tov Ding-Xuan Zhou
Tübingen Christophe Andrieu Pierre Baldi Léon Bottou Stéphane Boucheron Olivier Bousquet Chris Burges Jean-François Cardoso Manuel Davy
Organization Committees Canberra: Gunnar Rätsch and Alex Smola Tübingen: Olivier Bousquet, Manuel Davy, Frédéric Desobry, Ulrike von Luxburg and Bernhard Schölkopf
Acknowledgments
We gratefully thank all the individuals and organizations responsible for the success of the summer schools.
Local Arrangements Canberra Special thanks go to Michelle Moravec and Heather Slater for all their support during the preparations, to Joe Elso, Kim Holburn, and Fergus McKenzieKay for IT support, to Cheng Soon-Ong, Kristy Sim, Edward Harrington, Evan Greensmith, and the students at the Computer Sciences Laboratory for their help throughout the course of the Summer School. Tübingen Special thanks go to Sabrina Nielebock for all her work during the preparation and on the site, to Dorothea Epting and the staff of the Max Planck Guest House, to Sebastian Stark for IT support, and to all the students and administration of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics for their help throughout the Summer School.
Sponsoring Institutions Canberra Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australia National Institute of Engineering and Information Science, Australia Tübingen Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France French-German University Max Planck In