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SUMMARY:A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms
LOCATION:Kiva Room (32-G449)
DESCRIPTION:Series: Brains & Machines Seminar Series 2008\nSpeaker:  Partha Niyogi\, Ph.D.\, University of Chicago  - Department of Computer Science\nHost: Prof. Tomaso Poggio\, CSAIL\, McGovern Institute\, BCS Dept.\nContact: Kathleen D. Sullivan\, 617-253-0551\, kdsulliv@mit.edu\nRefreshment Time: \nRelevant URL: <a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show">http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show</a>\nAbstract:  Increasingly\, we face machine learning problems in very high\ndimensional spaces. We proceed with the intuition that although\nnatural data lives in very high dimensions\, they have relatively few\ndegrees of freedom. One way to formalize this intuition is to model\nthe data as lying on or near a low dimensional manifold embedded in\nthe high dimensional space. This point of view leads to a new class of\nalgorithms that are "manifold motivated" and a new set of theoretical\nquestions that surround their analysis. A central construction in\nthese algorithms is a graph or simplicial complex that is data-derived\nand we will relate the geometry of these to the geometry of the\nunderlying manifold. Applications to embedding\, clustering\,\nclassification\, and semi-supervised learning will be considered.
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SUMMARY:Adobe's Creative Technologies Lab: Inventing the Future Collaboratively
LOCATION:Stata - Seminar Room G449 (Patil/Kiva)
DESCRIPTION:Series: Brains & Machines Seminar Series 2008\nSpeaker:  David Salesin\, Senior Principal Scientist/Mngr- Creative Technologies Lab Systems at Adobe\, U. of Washington\nHost: Prof. Tomaso A. Poggio\, CSAIL\, McGovern Institute\, BCS Dept.\nContact: Kathleen D. Sullivan\, (617) 253-0551\, kdsulliv@mit.edu\nRefreshment Time: \nRelevant URL: <a href="http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show">http://www.csail.mit.edu/events/eventcalendar/calendar.php?show</a>\nABSTRACT: Adobe was established twenty-five years ago with the invention of PostScript\, work that redefined how people share documents around the world. Ever since\, Adobe has been reinventing the way people engage with ideas and information. As Adobe continues to grow\, deepening its technology in documents\, graphics\, and imaging ­ and broadening into new areas ­ where is the necessary innovation going to come from? The best strategy\, we believe\, is to leverage the vast amount of research already taking place at universities around the world by partnering and collaborating with them. To this end\, Adobe has established the Creative Technologies Lab\, with offices in Seattle\, Boston\, and San Francisco\, in close proximity to leading universities. Our researchers\, who work in computer graphics\, vision\, audio\, and HCI\, not only maintain close collaborations with academic groups around the world but also have the chance to participate in transforming their research into products used by millions. In this talk\, I will give an overview of the Creative Technology Labs and describe some of our most recent research.
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