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The Elements of Statistical Learning
Describes important statistical ideas in machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. Covers a broad range, from prediction to unsupervised learning, including classification trees and neural networks.
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AI Against Bioterrorism

An article over on CNet describes the new American anti-bioterrorism system, named RODS (Real-time Outbreak Detection System): Artificial Intelligence Early Warning System Installed at the Olympics For Bioterrorism Surveillance. Essentially, a combination of multiple fields of AI -- including data-mining, pattern recognition, machine learning natural language processing -- has been devised to detect contagion in time for something to be done about it. Generally, with human monitoring, it is often too late by the time the outbreak is identified. A computerised approach is always online, and would provide better coverage.

In practice, it's not too clear how exactly the machine learning is used. Presumably, the data-mining goes through wads of historical data (and also wards of them ;), and tries to apply generalisations to the outbreaks. I've no idea why they need NLP though!

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Thursday 14 February, 12:50
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