I successfully defended my PhD Thesis on June 5th, 2008

I have left Quantum Leap Innovations and am working in a research position at Lockheed Martin. My work at Quantum involved aspects of Machine Learning and distributed systems.


This year, I've been super busy, please see my news page for updates
I am a program committee member for the 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM'2008,in Leipzig, Germany
Submussion Deadline was 4-Feb-2008

Gary is a PhD candidate concentrating in Machine Learning. He also has eight years of industry experience in distributed systems R&D.

His primary research interest rests with the application of statistical
learning methods to real world domains and large scale systems including

  • visual percepts
  • peer-to-peer systems
  • ad-hoc networked systems
  • robot teams
  • ubiquitous computing.

Member: IEEE, AAAI, ACM, AAAS


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By the nerd test, I am quite a nerd
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I've been Simpsonized!

Finally, a good explanation of Newton's Method
Also, check out this great document on
conjugate gradient and conjugate gradient in multi-dimensions
List of
Maxent papers

Gary F. Holness
PhD Candidate
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts-Amherst