Misc Updates

I got this from Tom Mitchell, CMU Machine Learning Department Head:

Here's a nice New York Times article on the role that datamining played in Obama's election campaign.  The head of the effort:  Rayid Ghani, one of the first graduates of our Machine Learning graduate program!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/08/us/politics/obama-campaigns-vast-effort-to-re-enlist-08-supporters.html?pagewanted=all

I got this from my collaborator Joey Gonzalez:

Of course [my favorite method] can be used to solve this problem!

Additional hilarious academic jokes are found here.

Now to more important stuff. Joey just gave a superb lecture at Twitter course in Berkeley about GraphLab:
http://blogs.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-abdt-s12/2012/10/02/video-lecture-video-learning-with-graphs-by-joey-gonzalez/

There are several rather interesting lectures available here.