Many of us have completed our share of March Madness brackets, competing in leagues or pools to see who can be best at predicting the outcome of the annual NCAA Tournament. For the second year in a row, University of Toronto machine learning Ph.D. student Danny Tarlow has organized and run one such pool. But what makes Tarlow’s pool unique — and noteworthy here — is that all entries are computer-generated, i.e., the entries are brackets completed by computer algorithms working off of historial data and without the use of any human judgment. Tarlow calls it the March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge, and the rules he’s defined tell the story: Your bracket must be […]
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
Archive for March 26th, 2011
