Tom Mitchell

Fredkin Professor of AI and Learning
Director, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

412-268-2611, [email protected], Resume

Research: Machine Learning, Computer Science

• How can computers learn to decode a person's mental state from their brain activity?
  • See " Machine Learning of fMRI Virtual Sensors for Cognitive States," T. Mitchell, et al., December 2002.
  
  
• How can computers learn to classify text and extract information from the web?
  • See our web mining research
  
  
• How can computers learn from (i.e., data mine) large historical databases?
  • See " Machine Learning and Data Mining," T. Mitchell, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 42, No. 11, November 1999.
  • See our Center for Automated Learning and Discovery

• See " AI and the Impending Revolution in Brain Sciences ", T. Mitchell, AAAI Presidential Address, August 2002. (powerpoint slides, plus an associated video file)

Textbook: Machine Learning

• Machine Learning, Tom Mitchell, McGraw Hill, 1997.

Publications

• Selected publications

Courses

• Statistical Approaches to Learning and Discovery, 10-702 and 15-802 , Spring, 2003.
• Computational Analyses of Brain Imaging, 10-731 and 85-735 , Spring, 2003.
• Machine Learning, 10-701 and 15-781 , Fall 2002.
• Statistical Approaches to Learning, 15-889 and 36-835 , Spring 1999.
• Machine Learning, 15-681 and 15-781 , Fall 1998.
• Tutorial on Machine Learning over Natural Language Documents, Jan. 1997.
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Reference

• Journals:
  • Machine Learning
  • Journal of AI Research (online text)
  • Artificial Intelligence
• Academic American Encyclopaedia
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Man Page Search
• On html: Beginner's Guide to HTML, HTML

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