There is a five week gap between our last MeetUp and the next regular event on Mother's Day.
We will therefore add one extra meetup at noon on April 18. Because of the short notice (and because it's been a while) we'll make it a Holistic Salon, where we discuss the kind of AI that I personally like and work with: AI that understands context and can operate in very rich domains by avoiding the creation and use of Reductionist Models.
I'll be giving my talk Science Beyond Reductionism that I gave at the Future Salon in January (whichs available on the web at http://videos.syntien... . I will try to both shorten it a bit and to add some new material but the take-home, as usual, will be the audience participation including the extended discussion that will follow. A notable part of the talk is an example of a Model Free Method based approach to the NetFlix challenge.
ACM Data Mining SIG
http://www.sfbayacm.org/?cat=5
Next Lecture
Recommender Problems for Web Applications 4/26/10
http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=1579
Past and Future Netflix Lectures


Large Matrices beyond Singular Value Decomposition on
March 22, 2010
http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=1326
Slides
http://www.sfbayacm.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/acm...
Advances in Ensemble Learning from the $1,000,000
Netflix Prize Contest 6/28/10
http://www.sfbayacm.org/?p=1399