Historically, building a machine-learning system capable of learning a new task would take a graduate student somewhere between a few weeks and several months, says Daniel Roy, a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science who along with Cameron Freer, an instructor in pure mathematics, led the new research. A handful of new, experimental, probabilistic programming languages — one of which, Church, was developed at MIT — promise to cut that time down to a matter of hours.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/machine-learning-0518.html
Monday, May 24, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
KarDo
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/25351/?a=f
"The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure an e-mail account, install a virus scanner, or set up access to a virtual private network, says MIT's Dina Katabi, an associate professor at MIT.
Crucially, the software just needs to watch an administrator perform this task once before being able to carry out the same job on computers running different software. Businesses spend billions of dollars each year on simple and repetitive IT tasks, according to reports from the analyst groups Forrester and Gartner. KarDo could reduce these costs by as much as 20 percent, Katabi says.
In some respects, KarDo resembles software that can be used to record macros--a set sequence of user actions on a computer. But KarDo attempts to learn the goal of each action in the sequence so it can be applied more generally later, says MIT post-graduate Hariharan Rahul, who codeveloped the system. "
"The new software system, called KarDo, was developed by researchers at MIT. It can automatically configure an e-mail account, install a virus scanner, or set up access to a virtual private network, says MIT's Dina Katabi, an associate professor at MIT.
Crucially, the software just needs to watch an administrator perform this task once before being able to carry out the same job on computers running different software. Businesses spend billions of dollars each year on simple and repetitive IT tasks, according to reports from the analyst groups Forrester and Gartner. KarDo could reduce these costs by as much as 20 percent, Katabi says.
In some respects, KarDo resembles software that can be used to record macros--a set sequence of user actions on a computer. But KarDo attempts to learn the goal of each action in the sequence so it can be applied more generally later, says MIT post-graduate Hariharan Rahul, who codeveloped the system. "
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Monday, May 10, 2010
Marketcetera
http://venturebeatprofiles.com/company/profile/marketcetera
"Marketcetera Platform allows you to build automated trading systems for equities, equity options and currencies, to maximize the effectiveness of your traders and developers. Trade opportunities disappear in milliseconds. Equity options data feeds now reach 1 million messages per second. "
Homepage: http://www.marketcetera.com/site/
"Marketcetera Platform allows you to build automated trading systems for equities, equity options and currencies, to maximize the effectiveness of your traders and developers. Trade opportunities disappear in milliseconds. Equity options data feeds now reach 1 million messages per second. "
Homepage: http://www.marketcetera.com/site/
Structured Data Start Ups
Data Marketplace
Data Market http://www.crunchbase.com/company/datamarket
Factual
http://searchengineland.com/factual-parting-the-curtains-of-the-invisible-web-27608
InfoChimps
http://blog.infochimps.org/
Others
http://www.crunchbase.com/tag/structured-data
Data Market http://www.crunchbase.com/company/datamarket
Factual
http://searchengineland.com/factual-parting-the-curtains-of-the-invisible-web-27608
InfoChimps
http://blog.infochimps.org/
Others
http://www.crunchbase.com/tag/structured-data
Monday, September 7, 2009
Plasmobot: the slime mold robot
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.100-plasmobot-the-slime-mould-robot.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=robots
"In recent years, single-celled organisms have been used to control six-legged robots, but Andrew Adamatzky at UWE wants to go one step further by making a complete "robot" out of a plasmodium slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, a commonly occurring mould that moves towards food sources such as bacteria and fungi, and shies away from light."
Andrew Adamatzky homepage:
http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/
"In recent years, single-celled organisms have been used to control six-legged robots, but Andrew Adamatzky at UWE wants to go one step further by making a complete "robot" out of a plasmodium slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, a commonly occurring mould that moves towards food sources such as bacteria and fungi, and shies away from light."
Andrew Adamatzky homepage:
http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/adamatzky/
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Credit Derivatives: Russia safer investment than California
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aypQny1ySDjU
“This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago,” said Dmitry Sentchoukov, an emerging-market credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. “Now it’s clear emerging economies are going to outperform the Group of Seven in growth, and that makes investors comfortable with the idea that developing countries can be priced richer than developed.”
"Credit-default swap prices from Turkey to Indonesia are falling as bonds rise amid signs that their economies are recovering faster than developed nations."
“This would have been impossible to imagine a year ago,” said Dmitry Sentchoukov, an emerging-market credit strategist at Dresdner Kleinwort in London. “Now it’s clear emerging economies are going to outperform the Group of Seven in growth, and that makes investors comfortable with the idea that developing countries can be priced richer than developed.”
"Credit-default swap prices from Turkey to Indonesia are falling as bonds rise amid signs that their economies are recovering faster than developed nations."
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