Useful links

• The Smartest Machine on Earth
• Compete for a million dollar prize

• Elements of Statistical Learning book
  
• Bishop's book website
  
• Alpaydin's book website
• Mitchell's book website
• Information Theory Inference and Learning Algorithms book
• Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning book
  
• Introduction to Octave

• Numerical computation:  Octave,  Matlab
• Interactive ML:  Weka
  
• Linux:  Fedora,  Ubuntu
  
• Linux/windows:  VirtualBox virtualizer,  Open Office
  
• Software repositories:  Machine learning,  Kernel methods
  
• SVM: libSVM,  SVMlight,  MatlabToolbox,  other
• SVM applets:  classification,  regression 
  

Papers

• Galvin library databases
  
• IEEE
• ACM
• CiteSeer
• Computer vision bibliography

• UCI data sets repository
• UCI KDD repository
  
• Weka data sets
• Bishop's data sets
• MNIST characters (and in malab format)
  
• DDL Reuters-21578
  
• Text categorization
• Spam images
  
• Spam email
• Sentiment analysis
  
• Enron emails:  download,  browse,  search
  
• Federal Reserve statistics
• Financial data,  Yahoo finance
  
• Face recognition,  more data
  
• Signature recognition
• Offline handwriting recognition
  
• Arabic handwriting recognition contest
• ICDAR competitions:  2003,  2005,  2007,  2009,  2011
  
• Symbol recognition contest
  
• Arc segmentation contest
• Video sequences
• Image databases
• CMU data page

• Latex home page, CTAN
  
• Editors:  Lyx, Texmaker, Kile
• Slides:  Beamer,  Prosper
• Posters:  Example 1,  Example 2,  Example 3