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Welcome to the Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems at the University of California, Irvine.
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CML: In The News |
Five New Faculty Join the Center
 The Center is very pleased
to welcome five new faculty on board, all assistant professors who joined
UC Irvine in Fall 2007. From computer science, we welcome Charless
Fowlkes (computer vision and bioinformatics), Alex Ihler (statistical
learning and inference), Deva Ramanan (computer vision), and Xiaohui
Xie (bioinformatics) - and from cognitive science we welcome Lisa Pearl
(computational language modeling).
Center Members Receive Major Honors
 A number of Center members were
recognized by their peers for major awards in the Fall. Rina Dechter
received the 2007 Association of Constraint Programming Research
Excellence award. Michael Goodrich was named a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). And Rui
de Figueiredo was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy
of Natural Sciences (U.S. Section) and was awarded the academy's
George V. Chilingar Medal of Honor for his important contributions to
science and engineering. Congrats to all!
Yahoo! Gift Funds Seminars
 The Center is very grateful
for a recent gift from Yahoo! - the gift is specifically targeted at supporting the weekly AI and
machine learning seminar series. This series has proven very popular
with graduate students and faculty, and we had an excellent set
of talks in Fall quarter, including visitors such as Geoff Hinton,
Milind Tambe, and Dave Blei. The Distinguished Speaker Series also
got off to a great start in the Fall, with talks by Judea Pearl, David
Heckerman, and Tommi Jaakkola. Next quarter, we look forward
to visits from Tom Griffiths, Andrew McCallum, and Trevor Hastie.
Center Members Present Six Papers at NIPS 2007
 At the recent
(Dec 2007) NIPS conference in Vancouver, six different papers were
presented by PhD students and faculty from the Center. The students
included Ian Porteous, Eric Linstead, and Arthur Asuncion, and researchers
and faculty from the Center included Alex Ihler, Max Welling, Pierre Baldi,
Dave Newman, and Padhraic Smyth. The NIPS conference is one of the
major annual conferences in machine learning (over 1000 attendees) and
is also highly competitive -- only about 25% of submitted papers are
accepted.
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Join us every week at the AI/ML Seminar
and every month at the Distinguished Speaker Series.
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