Machine Learning Discussion Group - Deep Learning w/ Stanford AI Lab

Please note that this meetup is held on a Thursday and at a location different than our normal venue.

Adam Coates will give an overview of some recent research projects from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and will do a presentation with open discussion on Deep Learning, an exciting recent addition to the machine learning algorithm family. The format will be interactive as Adam will answer questions from the group. So this will be a great opportunity to learn from one of the authorities on this exciting topic.

Here are a few links to recent media coverage on Deep Learning:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/519411/facebook-launches-advanced-ai-effort-to-find-meaning-in-your-posts/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/netapp/2013/08/19/what-is-deep-learning/

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000192292

Some technical background on Deep Learning can be obtained here: http://ufldl.stanford.edu/wiki/index.php/UFLDL_Tutorial

Speaker bio: Adam Coates is a senior member of Andrew Ng's Stanford AI Lab and currently a visiting scholar at Indiana University. He research areas are Deep learning and feature learning, Perception and vision, and Reinforcement learning. More about him can be found here (http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/).