Christmas Party

Tuesday 2nd December, 20:00
11 Goodson Walk, Marston

Celebrate the end of term and the start of the Christmas season in style. Nibbles will be provided, but please bring your own drinks.

To reach Goodson Walk go East along South Parks Road past the Science area. When the road turns right take the cycle path to Marston (straight on). At the second cattle grid go straight on past the first road on the right. Turn right, then immediately left after about 20 metres (into Purcell Road), continue straight on, onto a footpath, right at the end of the footpath then left onto Goodson Walk (number 11 is near the end)

A group will be leaving Keble lodge at 7:45pm in case you don't feel like braving these directions!

Machine Learning Applications in Information Access

Thursday 4th December, 20:30
Comlab

Hugo Zaragoza from Microsoft Research Cambridge will be giving us a talk on an active research topic he is working on.

The field of Information Retrieval deals with the problem of searching and manipulating textual data to answer user information needs, such as finding documents on the Internet, classifying email, summarising documents, tracking topics, etc. The application of Machine Learning techniques to Information Retrieval has been very successful in recent years, and is today one of the most promising directions. In my talk I will introduce basic concepts from Information Retrieval and Machine Learning and discuss a number of examples of successful applications, some of which are being incorporated into Microsoft products.