[UAI] book_announcement- Schölkopf and Smola

From: Jud Wolfskill (wolfskil@mit.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 15:07:10 PST

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    I thought readers of the Uncertainty in AI List might be interested in this
    book. For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262194759

    Learning with Kernels
    Support Vector Machines, Regularization, Optimization, and Beyond
    Bernhard Schölkopf and Alexander J. Smola

    In the 1990s, a new type of learning algorithm was developed, based on
    results from statistical learning theory: the Support Vector Machine (SVM).
    This gave rise to a new class of theoretically elegant learning machines
    that use a central concept of SVMs--kernels--for a number of learning
    tasks. Kernel machines provide a modular framework that can be adapted to
    different tasks and domains by the choice of the kernel function and the
    base algorithm. They are replacing neural networks in a variety of fields,
    including engineering, information retrieval, and bioinformatics.

    Learning with Kernels provides an introduction to SVMs and related kernel
    methods. Although the book begins with the basics, it also includes the
    latest research. It provides all of the concepts necessary to enable a
    reader equipped with some basic mathematical knowledge to enter the world
    of machine learning using theoretically well-founded yet easy-to-use kernel
    algorithms and to understand and apply the powerful algorithms that have
    been developed over the last few years.

    Bernhard Schölkopf is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological
    Cybernetics in Tübingen and a Researcher at Biowulf Technologies in New
    York City. Alexander J. Smola is Leader of the Machine Learning Group,
    Research School for Information Sciences and Engineering, the Australian
    National University.

    8 x 10, 632 pp., 138 illus., cloth, ISBN 0-262-19475-9
    Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series

    Jud Wolfskill
    Associate Publicist
    MIT Press
    5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
    Cambridge, MA 02142
    617.253.2079
    617.253.1709 fax
    wolfskil@mit.edu



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