Currently on sabbatical from the Max Planck Institute, Bernhard Schölkopf is spending several months in New York at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. On May 8, 2013, Professor Schölkopf sat down with reporter M.L. Ball to discuss the field of machine learning, its relationship to large data sets, and the intimidation factor inherent in...

Internationally regarded as a leading researcher in the field of machine learning, Bernhard Schölkopf was the featured speaker for this year’s Courant Lectures in April, giving two talks: “Statistical and Causal Learning” and “Inference of Cause and Effect.” Currently on sabbatical from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, where he is Director...