Bernhard Schölkopf to Present Courant Lectures This Week, April 25 and 26

THE COURANT LECTURES Created to commemorate Richard Courant’s 70th birthday on January 8, 1958, the Courant Lectures officially began when friends established a fund to endow a series of lectures to be delivered every two years. The first speaker was Eugene Wigner in 1959, one of the greatest mathematical physicists of the 20th century and … Continue reading Bernhard Schölkopf to Present Courant Lectures This Week, April 25 and 26

Big data: Statistical and computational challenges and opportunities

ABSTRACT: I will review several successful consumer products and argue that huge datasets played a central role in their construction. Among these products, I will describe Zite, a personalized magazine built by my team and acquired by CNN, which uses massive classifiers to label nearly a billion documents and personalize content for millions of users. … Continue reading Big data: Statistical and computational challenges and opportunities