Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Light Reading group order of presenters..

Hi,
I just thought I'd repost the ordered list of presenters for the light reading group. Please try to choose short papers of around 4 pages. The idea of this reading group is to present work that interests you and gives others a 'window into your world'...

paco,
gokul,
radu,
hari,
dinesh,
kate
dayra,
hayley,
nikhil,
oya,
jaggan

next heavy reading group

Next reading group will take place on:

[26 June, 2pm, 309]

We'll continue with Chris Bishop's book chapter 12, reading sections 12.2 and 12.3

Friday, June 5, 2009

Next normal reading group

Next reading group will take place on:

[June 19th]

Presented by:

[Paco]

Paper to read:

[Sketch-Based Retrieval of Drawings using Topological Proximity]
http://www.inesc-id.pt/ficheiros/publicacoes/4887.pdf

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

proposal for next heavy reading group

We were thinking of reading section 12.1 on principal component analysis from Chris Bishop's book next Tuesday(9th June) at 2pm. I can send out the pdf of the chapter.

Please reply to this post if you are interested in coming.

Hayley

Friday, May 22, 2009

Outcome of last reading group

I'll let Joan put up the new times since the ICA reading has been postponed.

So, this is what I think we came up with after much debate..
the 'lite' reading group will be run on a rotation system in this order, every two weeks starting from 5th June.

paco,
gokul,
radu,
hari,
dinesh,
kate
dayra,
hayley,
nikhil

The more in-depth reading group will start next week with a continuation of the discussion on ICA. Hopefully we can go on to read other stuff to do with clustering but this will be decided next week. The general consensus is that there are those who are interested in reading more in-depth tutorial-style papers but since this was 5 out of 9, the other (slightly louder) members decided in-depth papers would be a waste of time for them.

During the 'lite' reading circuit, there is no reason why you can't present a more in-depth paper. However, the general rule is to keep the paper short so everyone can read it in about 1 hour or 1.5 hours.

Hope that sorts everything out,
Hayley

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Clustering series: ICA

Hayley proposed to start a series of readings on clustering algorithms.
We'll start reading about ICA in the next reading group.
The paper looks long but it should be easy to read. (If you have any comment
post it below this entry)

Next reading group will take place on:

Friday May 22nd, at 2pm in Room 405

Presented by:

Joan

Paper to read:
Independent Component Analysis: Algorithms and Applications
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/papers/NN00new.pdf

Monday, May 4, 2009

Internet Advertising

Next reading group will take place on:

Firday, May 8, 2009 at 2pm in Room 405

Presented by:

Nikhil Garg

Paper to read:
Internet Advertising and the Generalized Second-Price Auction: Selling Billions of Dollars Worth of Keywords
http://faculty-gsb.stanford.edu/ostrovsky/papers/gsp.pdf