Athene Software Sponsors Outstanding Student Paper at Machine Learning Conference; NIPS 2000 Awards Presented in Denver.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 2000 Athene Software announced the winner of the Year 2000 Outstanding Student Paper Award sponsored by the company at NIPS 2000, a premier data mining conference held in Denver on the theory and application of machine learning. Lehel Csato, from the Neural Computing Research Group in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the United Kingdom, won the award for his paper, Sparse Representation for Gaussian Process A Gaussian process is a stochastic process which generates samples over time t ∈T such that no matter which finite linear combination of the Xt Models, co-authored by Manfred Opper. Martijn Leisink, from the University of Nijmegen (body, education) University of Nijmegen - Katholieke University of Nijmegen (KUN), Nijmegen, the Netherlands. KUN's Computing Science Institute. is known for the Clean, Comma, Communicating Functional Processes, and GLASS projects. http://kun.nl/. in the Netherlands, received an honorable mention for A Tighter Bound for Graphical Models, co-authored with H.J. Kappen. A second honorable mention went to Brian Sallans of the University of Toronto Research at the University of Toronto has been responsible for the world's first electronic heart pacemaker, artificial larynx, single-lung transplant, nerve transplant, artificial pancreas, chemical laser, G-suit, the first practical electron microscope, the first cloning of T-cells, for Using Free Energies to Represent Q-values in a Multiagent Reinforcement Learning For reinforcement learning in psychology, see . Derived from the psychological theory of the same name, in computer science, reinforcement learning is a sub-area of machine learning concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment Task, co-authored by Geoffrey E. Hinton Geoffrey E. Hinton is an English computer scientist, known for his work on neural networks. He was one of the inventors of the Backpropagation algorithm for training multi-layer neural networks. . "These awards are indicative of the many advances that are taking place in the area of neural processing and predictive technology," said Eric Johnson, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Athene Software, which utilizes state-of-the-art machine learning in its software products that assist communication service providers in predicting customer turnover and prescribing retention strategies. "This is a foundation for our business as well as many others, and we sponsored this competition to help encourage ongoing research in the field." The awards were presented in Denver this week at the Neural Information Processing Systems For other uses, see nip. Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a machine learning and computational neuroscience conference held every December in Vancouver, Canada. meeting, an interdisciplinary conference which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. Under the competition rules, a person may submit a paper if he or she was a full-time student Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. at the time of the paper submission deadline and if he or she carried out the majority of the research for the paper. About Athene Athene Software develops and markets Intelligent Customer Relationship Management (iCRM(TM)) software enabling ISPs, e-businesses and communications service providers to proactively build and retain profitable, long-term and loyal customer bases. Drawing on the expertise of some of the world's best domain experts and machine learning scientists, Athene solutions dynamically predict customer behavior, reveal the drivers or reasons for this behavior, deliver real-time recommendations to all customer touch points, and continuously learn with each customer interaction. Athene Software is headquartered in Boulder, Colo. For more information, visit www.athenesoft.com. Athene Software and iCRM are trademarks of Athene Software, Inc. |
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