Machine Learning List: Vol. 19, No. 6

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            Machine Learning List: Volume 19, Number 6
                     Monday, November 5, 2007
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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

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Date: Oct 6, 2007
From: Magdiel Galan Oliveras <mgalan@...>
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
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Date: Oct 14, 2007
From: John Liu <john.liu.98@...>
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)
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Date: Oct 15, 2007
From: Shimon Whiteson <shimon.whiteson@...>
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
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Date: Oct 15, 2007
From: John E. Edward <jeedward@...>
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
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Date: Oct 15, 2007
From: John Liu <john.liu.9@...>
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
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Date: Oct 17, 2007
From: Dr. Jian Pei <jpei@...>
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
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Date: Oct 18, 2007
From: Bill Dolan <billdol@...>
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)
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Date: Oct 19, 2007
From: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni@...>
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
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Date: Oct 19, 2007
From: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni@...>
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
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Date: Oct 19, 2007
From: Stefano Cagnoni <cagnoni@...>
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
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Date: Aug 22, 2007
From: Jan Peters <mail@...>
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
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Date: Oct 31, 2007
From: Lutz Hamel <lutz@...>
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

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Date: Oct 31, 2007
From: Jian Pei <jpei@...>
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
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Date: Nov 4, 2007
From: Max Bramer <max.bramer@...>
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
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Date: Oct 1, 2007
From: David Allen <david@...>
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
david@...
888-480-6714
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Date: Oct 1, 2007
From: David Allen <david@...>
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
david@...
888-480-0018
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Date: Oct 9, 2007
From: Terran Lane <terran@...>
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/

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Date: Oct 31, 2007
From: Kiri Wagstaff <kiri.wagstaff@...>
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
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Date: Oct 15, 2007 3:02 PM
From: Prem Melville <pmelvil@...>
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.

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