NPCT

There has been a really interesting (and inbox-filling) debate about the correct course for brain research on the comp-neuro (that’s “Computational Neuroscience”) mailing list. There is a summary of the discussions here.

You can now see a video of a talk I gave at the 2008 ICML/UAI/COLT Workshop on Nonparametric Bayes over at VideoLectures.net, along with a bunch of other talks from the Helsinki conferences, including one given by Oliver Stegle about a paper we wrote together.

I am a huge fan of Tom Minka’s Lightspeed Toolbox for MATLAB. I am so dependent on it that I can’t even remember which functions are native to MATLAB and which are Tom’s inventions. However, Tom is at Microsoft Research Cambridge and so he doesn’t spend much time making sure that it works [...]

You won’t find many people with Bayesian chops like Radford Neal at the University of Toronto. Fortunately for the rest of us, he’s started a blog.

AISTATS*09 Call for Papers
Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics
April 16-19, 2009, Clearwater, Florida USA
This is the twelfth conference on Artificial Intelligence and
Statistics, an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the
intersection of computer science, statistics, and related areas. Since
its inception in 1985, the primary goal of this conference has been to
broaden research in both of these [...]