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
Cool links:
Friendly Pet Training
Tower Hobbies
By the nerd test, I am quite a nerd
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
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Gary F. Holness PhD Candidate Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts-Amherst