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Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She’s also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women in Machine Learning (better known as WiML). We take a listener question about scalability and the size of data sets. And Ryan takes us through topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet allocation (say that five times fast).
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- 25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)
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- Microsoft layoffs claims Robotics Research team over the weekend
- Microsoft pays 5M CHF to ETHZ and EPFL for research on flying robots and new memory architectures
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tags: Algorithm AI-Cognition, c-Research-Innovation, Hanna Wallach, machine learning, Microsoft Research, robohub focus on diversity, women in robotics
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