15 Dec 2008 Worio Public Beta is out! (machine learning, me, worio)

At long last, I can reveal what I’ve been working on for the past year: the public beta version of Worio.com!
Worio combines search and recommendation with the philosophy that user effort should be kept to a minimum. You can simply use your favourite existing search engine, or Worio’s own, and receive recommendations […]

04 Aug 2007 headed to SIGGRAPH (academia, machine learning, publications)

As previously promised, I am headed to SIGGRAPH! I will be presenting a poster of my research with Abhi and Nando on Monday and Wednesday (booth I03): Preference Galleries for Material Design.
This is the first time I’ve publicly presented this particular research, so it will be interesting to hear what people think of it. […]

07 Dec 2006 the interweb, it is mostly not so good (machine learning)

For the past few weeks, my job has been working to design, test and implement algorithms to train machines to distinguish between different sorts of web pages.

05 Dec 2006 we all like nips (artificial intelligence, machine learning, me)

This week is the Neural Information Processing Systems workshop in Vancouver and Whistler — apparently, skiers and snowboarders are quite well represented in the AI and neuroscience communities. I enjoy the conference and get a lot out of it, but I do tend to find academic conferences have a fair bit of “angels on […]

15 Feb 2006 MLSS ‘06 (artificial intelligence, australia, machine learning)

So, the 2006 Canberra Machine Learning Summer School is winding down.