Hi everyone!
I'm excited to announce that tomorrow at Applied
Stats<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats> we will have Professor Cynthia
Rudin from MIT.
Professor Rudin is an associate professor of statistics at MIT, and her talk will be on
"Growing a Pattern From a Seed." The talk will describe two methods and
applications for pattern detection, where patterns are grown from a seed of a few items:
1) Growing a List: The next generation of search engines should not simply retrieve URLs,
but should aim at retrieving information. Professor Rudin and her collaborators have
designed a system that leads into this next generation, leveraging information from across
the Internet to grow an authoritative list on almost any topic, starting from a seed.
2) Crime Series Detection: In joint work with the Cambridge Police Department, Professor
Rudin and her collaborators have designed a method called "Series Finder" that
detects patterns of crime that are committed by the same individual or group. The method
is tested on a decade's worth of housebreak data from Cambridge, MA.
The related papers, a Boston public radio interview and an article in the Boston Globe can
be found here:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats/event/cynthia-rudin-mit
As per usual, our meeting will be held at 12 noon in CGIS
K354<http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied_stats/2013-fall-0> and lunch will be
served!
Tess
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Tess Wise
PhD Candidate
Harvard Department of Government
http://tesswise.com