Phil Cowans

Name:	Phil Cowans
Affiliation:	University of Cambridge
E-mail:	(only provided to users who are logged into talks.cam)
Last login:	Mon Feb 25 22:18:33 +0000 2008

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Talks given by Phil Cowans

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• Title Language Model
• Language Modelling Discussion
• Context Tree Weighting

Talks organised by Phil Cowans

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• Context Tree Weighting
• Hierarchical Passage Retrieval
• The Swendsen-Wang algorithm (tutorial), and the "Baby and Toy" algorithm
• Bayesian Online Changepoint Detection
• Graph Transformation Method for Calculating Waiting Times in Markov Chains
• Epitomic representation of natural signals
• Initial results from the new IR camera for COAST
• The most distant galaxies
• Aggregation of Particles in Stochastic Flows
• Student Project Presentations: "Colour Memorisation", "One button communication" and "Optimising digital fountain codes"
• A deep glimpse of the near-infrared sky
• Student Project Presentations: "Redundancy in Turing machines"; "A two button implementation of Dasher" and "Relationships between energy and information in fly retina"
• Speech Recognition During Dictation Corrections
• Out of Africa: Results from the H.E.S.S. Telescopes
• Topic Modeling: Beyond Bag-of-Words
• Black-hole jets and accretion
• Uncertainty Logic
• Experimental Annotation of the Human Genome
• Tracking the early stages of star formation
• Virtual-move Parallel Tempering
• Simulated observation of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich clusters with PLANCK
• Latency-optimal fault-tolerant replication
• Dynamical Networks for Agent Systems
• Recognition and prediction of biological motion
• Lexicographic text analysis using non-negative factorisation techniques
• Eye Tracking with Consumer Hardware
• Measurements of CMB polarization with BOOMERanG
• Dark energy with 3-D cosmic shear: theory and first results
• Cheap and cheerful inference machines for tracking
• Efficient Quantum Computation with linear optics
• Bipolar outflows and circumstellar discs around evolved stars
• Locked-in syndrome
• Detection of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect and corresponding dark energy constraints made with directional spherical wavelets
• Monte Carlo is Bayesian
• The first hour in the life of a GRB
• Dasher for the blind, and some visual illusions
• Viewing the dusty Universe
• SKADS: The first concrete steps to the SKA
• Star formation in Perseus
• A Cross-Entropy Based Method to Analyse Iterative Decoding
• Bayesian Pattern Ranking for Move Prediction in the Game of Go
• Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Simulation and Optimization
• Language relationships, phonology, and Greek
• Efficient communication with buttons: an update on Button Dasher
• Progress with #Dasher, a Continuous Gesture IDE
• Why do fruitflies like bananas?
• except me - I don't get any
• except me - I don't get any
• An introduction to Brain-Computer Interfaces
• To be confirmed
• What we face in facing up to complexity in the genetics of complex disease
• LOCUS: Learning Object Classes with Unsupervised Segmentation
• Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink
• Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech
• Efficient computer interfaces using continuous gestures, language models, and speech; Probabilistic methods for interpreting electronic ink
• A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets
• Varying constants? Evidence for and against from quasar absorption lines
• Epitomes And Epitexts
• Monte Carlo experiments in computer Go
• Language Modelling In Dasher: A Tutorial
• Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Models for Time Series Data
• Japanese Language Model
• A Tale of T9
• Information and Intelligence
• Searching for the onset of star formation
• Neighbourhood Components Analysis
• Early AMI cluster targets using the red-sequence method
• Weak lensing of the cosmic microwave background: friend or foe?
• First light on Thumper
• Is there an axis of evil in the sky?
• Nested Sampling for Motif Discovery
• Joint Gaussian Process-Density Mixtures
• A Bayesian revolution in spectral analysis
• Computer Othello
• Variational Gibbs Sampling
• Astronomical Image Recognition
• Bloom Filters and Tries (a comparison)
• The predictive power of contractive neural-network spaces
• Communicating with buttons: current progress in one- and two-button Dasher
• Bayesian Learning for Visual Inference
• Approximating The Hierarchical Dirichelet Distribution
• Simulated observation of Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters with PLACNK