I have signed on as chief scientist at YapMap. It is a part time position that grew out of me being on their advisory board for the past 3 years. Try the search interface for the forums below: Automotive Forums YapMap search for Low Carb Breakfast on Diabetes Daily A screen shot of the interface: [...]

I (Bob) am going to give a talk at the next NYC Machine Learning Meetup, on 19 January 2012 at 7 PM: Stan: A Bayesian Directed Graphical Model Compiler There’s an abstract on the meetup site. The short story is that Stan’s a directed graphical model compiler (like BUGS) that uses adaptive Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [...]

Last week I shut my LinkedIn account down. My first attempt resulted in a warning web page saying I couldn’t shut it down because I had over 250 contacts. With that hint, I just deleted contacts until I had fewer than 250. Then I could close my account through their web form. Please Don’t Go! [...]

In my work at SAS, I meet many people intent on using text analytics to help their organization achieve the next big breakthrough in competitive advantage. The most successful of those do three things well. #1 – Listen with a business goal in mind Leading organizations understand the value of [...]

Roberto Pieraccini, who was my boss at SpeechWorks (among other notable accomplishments), is going to be the new director of U. C. Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). Official Announcement: ICSI Announces New Director Now this is a succession event I can (and did) wholeheartedly endorse. They asked me to write a recommendation letter as [...]