Congratulations to RIPS2014 student Laura Asaro (East Central University) who received first place at the OK-LSAMP 20th Annual Research Symposium for a poster of her RIPS project, sponsored by Google, entitled “Using Machine Translation to Extend Text Classification.”  The Oklahoma Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority […]

Click on the image to open our Fall 2014 annual newsletter.  Contents include the cover article “Machine Learning Expert Benefits from IPAM Connections” that describes IPAM’s recent programs with Yann LeCun, professor of computer science at NYU’s Courant Institute and director of artificial intelligence for […]

The Royal Society awarded UCLA Professor Terence Tao the 2014 Royal Medal for his “many deep and varied contributions to mathematics.” The Society’s fundamental purpose is to “recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the […]

At the 2014 International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul, Korea, Stanley Osher received the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for Applications of Mathematics, which is granted jointly by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the German Mathematical Society. The prize citation says that Osher received the […]