************************************************************************* Machine Learning List: Volume 19, Number 6 Monday, November 5, 2007 *************************************************************************
Contents Call For Papers Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction International Congress on Image and Signal Processing Reinforcement Learning Competition Automation, Robotics, and Control Systems Biomedical Engineering and Informatics KDD Cup JNLE special issue on Textual Entailment Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Theoretical Aspects of Artificial Evolution NIPS Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and CB Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Career Opportunities Bazooked requiring expertise in Machine Learning Senior Software Engineer Position Jr. & Sr. Faculty openings - University of New Mexico JPL Machine Learning Group Supervisor Post-Doctoral Research IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship ************************************************************************ The Machine Learning List is moderated. 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The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ************************************************************************* Date: Oct 6, 2007 From: Magdiel Galan Oliveras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Call for Papers 1st International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Sedona, Arizona, April 1-2, 2008 www.public.asu.edu/~huanliu/sbp08/ Sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory/II Proceedings published by Springer Paper Submission Deadline: November 5, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: December 10, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 14, 2007 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: International Congress on Image and Signal Processing Call for Papers 2008 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2008) Sanya, Hainan, China, May 28-30, 2008 http://www.hainu.edu.cn/CISP2008 Paper Submission Deadline: November 11, 2007 (Extended) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 15, 2007 From: Shimon Whiteson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Reinforcement Learning Competition Call for Participation 2nd Annual Reinforcement Learning Competition at ICML-08 Helsinki, Finland, July 6-9, 2008 http://rl-competition.org Public Release of Competition Training Software: November 1, 2007 Public Release of Competition Test Software; Results: December 1, 2007 Deadline to submit competition results: July 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 15, 2007 From: John E. Edward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Automation, Robotics and Control Systems Call for Papers 2008 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-08) Orlando, Florida, USA, July 7-10, 2008 http://www.PromoteResearch.org Paper Submission Deadline: February 4, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 4 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 15, 2007 From: John Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Biomedical Engineering and Informatics 2008 International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2008) Sanya, Hainan, China, May 28-30, 2008 http://www.hainu.edu.cn/BMEI2008 Paper Submission Deadline: November 10, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 17, 2007 From: Dr. Jian Pei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: KDD Cup Call for Proposals KDD Cup a part ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) http://www.sigkdd.org/kddcup/index.php Proposal Submission Deadline: November 10, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 18, 2007 From: Bill Dolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: JNLE special issue on Textual Entailment Journal of Natural Language Engineering Special Issue on Textual Entailment Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2007 Guest Editors: Ido Dagan (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Bill Dolan (Microsoft Research, USA) Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst, Italy) Dan Roth (UIUC, USA) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 19, 2007 From: Stefano Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Call for Papers 10th European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing Part of EvoWorkshops 2008 Napoli, Italy, March 26-28, 2008 http://www.evostar.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 11, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 19, 2007 From: Stefano Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: EGraduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation Call for Papers 3rd European Graduate Student Workshop on Evolutionary Computation EvoPhD 2008 Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008 http://www.evostar.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: December 22, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: February 29, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 19, 2007 From: Stefano Cagnoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Theoretical Aspects of Artificial Evolution Call for Papers 1st European Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Artificial Evolution (EvoTHEORY 2008) Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008 http://www.evostar.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: November 11, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: January 8, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Aug 22, 2007 From: Jan Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NIPS Workshop: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning Call for Posters NIPS 2007 WORKSHOP: Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning Whistler, BC, Canada, December 7-8, 2007 http://www.robot-learning.de Abstract Submission Deadline: October 24, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 31, 2007 From: Lutz Hamel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and CB Call for Papers 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Sun Valley, Idaho, USA, September 15-17, 2008 http://www.cibcb.org Paper Submission Deadline: March 31, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: June 15, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 31, 2007 From: Jian Pei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Call for Research Track Papers 14th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD-08) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, August 24 - 27, 2008 http://www.kdd.org/kdd2008/ Abstract Submission Deadline: February 23, 2008 Paper Submission Deadline: February 29, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Nov 4, 2007 From: Max Bramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Second Call for Papers 2nd IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice Milan, Italy, September 7-10, 2008 2008 http://www.ifiptc12.org/ifipai2008 Paper Submission Deadline: January 7th, 2008 Camera-ready Deadline: April 7, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 1, 2007 From: David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CTO position requiring expertise in Machine Learning This CTO position is with an early-stage start-up company that requires a candidate with strong machine learning technology experience. Bazooked is a web company creating technology for content discovery. CTO Early Stage Start-up Do you have technical thought-leadership in web search and categorization using techniques such as information extraction, link analysis and inferences drawn from user-based content? Do you have a point-of-view on related matters such as folksonomy, semantic web and future technologies that will drive content aggregation?If so, this could be a very interesting ground-floor start-up opportunity. We are looking for technical leadership to join the team. You need to have expertise in web data mining and information extraction including knowledge of crawling/indexing, search, parsing, lexical and semantic analysis, text analysis, NLP, meta data extraction. In this position, you will be responsible for all aspects of software development, including architecture, design, coding, documentation, QA, deployment and management. Appropriate candidates will meet the following criteria. Qualifications - Expertise in ML and NLP - Demonstrated history of in-depth algorithm design and analysis - Expertise in web data mining, information retrieval and content discovery - Good understanding of software architecture and Object Oriented design - Experience with languages and technologies such as PHP, JavaScript, XML, HTML, CSS, Ruby, ActionScript, Java, and SQL - Excellent coding skills / Hands-on contributor - Ability to think abstractly and strong framework orientation - Facile with both the research and development aspects of Computer Sciences - MS or PH.D. with research in related areas - Personal: Grounded, open-minded, collaborative and non-arrogant to fit company culture - Creative ability and strong track-record of innovation - Curious, self-starter; motivated to constantly tinker with systems and applications - Can-do, inspirational attitude - Risk-taker Interested candidates please contact: David L. Allen Olympic Search [EMAIL PROTECTED] 888-480-6714 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 1, 2007 From: David Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Senior Software Engineer Position This Senior Software Engineer position requires a candidate with strong statistical and machine learning technology experience. Position Summary Turn is a rapidly growing, well funded startup in San Mateo, CA, with an experienced executive team with significant backgrounds in Internet search, online advertising, consumer businesses,and online marketing. Through automatic targeting of ads using statistical and machine learning techniques, Turn is changing the way the world thinks about online advertising with a service thatll kick the current accepted models to the curb. Description Working in a high-performance, highly dynamic engineering team, the Engineer/Senior Engineer position will be responsible for developing the company's advanced technology in predictive modeling and large-scale data analytics. Predictive modeling and optimization algorithms are implemented in a highly distributed and high-performance enterprise Java-base system to find the best advertisement for each ad request. Responsibilities - Analyze, design, develop, test, troubleshoot and document complex data systems that may involve one or more of the following: predictive score models, text analysis, feature extraction, data-driven analysis, machine learning, decision making and related utilities. - Design and develop distributed predictive algorithms by researching, architecting and implementing high-performance production Java code solo or in small team of highly productive individuals. - Analyze large amounts of data and develop answers and solutions to specific business problems. - Develop tools as needed to assist in data analytics and modeling procedures. - Coordinate with other teams on interfaces and product integration. Participate in design and code reviews of other system and product components. - Complete written documentation and reports of results. - Devise new approaches to solving difficult data engineering problems. - Develop software tools to assist in data / modeling procedures. - Analyze and report model performance and optimization results. Required Skills - Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields with basic knowledge of machine learning and statistics. - Minimum 3 years experience with high-performance Java/C++ systems processing large amounts of data. - Solid working knowledge of development tools and operating environment including experience with Linux/Unix. - Some experience with database systems, knowledge of at least one scripting language and experience with reading the code base of large software systems. - Ability to communicate technical ideas effectively, in oral and written forms, and solve complex problems in team environment. Preferred Skills - Experience developing server software preferably in Java and building tools as needed to solve problems. - Experience analyzing very large amounts of data. - Strong problem solving, analytical ability and good mathematics or statistics background. - Experience with the development of a search engine, text analysis, statistical modeling or related fields. - PhD or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent fields. Contact David L. Allen Olympic Search [EMAIL PROTECTED] 888-480-0018 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 9, 2007 From: Terran Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Jr. & Sr. Faculty openings - University of New Mexico The Department of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico has openings this year for two junior (tenure-track) and one senior (tenured) faculty positions. For the full job ads and to apply, please go to: http://www.cs.unm.edu/jobs/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 31, 2007 From: Kiri Wagstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: JPL Machine Learning Group Supervisor The Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy Group invites applications for a Group Supervisor position. We are an energetic group of ten people, involved both in leading machine learning research and in incorporating machine learning advances into new instrument and spacecraft software. Our primary research interests include onboard data analysis, image analysis, bioinformatics, classification, and clustering. The Group Supervisor generally splits his or her time 50/50 between group management and independent research on projects of personal interest. More information about the MLIA group and the open position is available at: http://ml.jpl.nasa.gov/ Applications will be reviewed until December 17, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Oct 15, 2007 3:02 PM From: Prem Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> subject IBM Goldstine Postdoctoral Fellowship 2008-2009 IBM Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship The Mathematical Sciences Department of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center invites applications for its 2008-2009 Herman Goldstine Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship for research in mathematical and computer sciences. Areas of active research in the department include: algorithms, data mining, dynamical systems and differential equations, high-performance computing, numerical analysis, optimization, probability theory, statistics, and supply-chain and operations management. Fellows interact closely with department members, but are free to pursue their own research agenda. Applications must be received between October 15, 2007 and January 5, 2008. Complete details and the application procedure are available at: http://www.research.ibm.com/math/goldstine.html. ----------------------- End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 19, No. 6