Artificial Intelligence Resources

Mailing Lists

We recommend the following AI-related mailing lists for new students.

• MLGroup
  This list is used for messages that are of interest to machine learning faculty and students (job openings, news, cookies and so on).
  
  
• AIRG
  AI students' reading group (weekly meetings and so on).
  
  
• AISEM (archive)
  Announcements of AI and Robotics seminar talks are made to list subscribers (low traffic).
  
  
• Bioinformatics
  Announcements pertaining to seminars for the CIBM training grant and other bioinformatics events on campus.
  
  
• Biostat-seminar
  Seminar announcements in the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics.
  
  
• Computer Vision
  Weekly reading group on vision, graphics, learning.
  
  
• Chaos & Complex Systems
  Weekly, campus-wide, multidisciplinary seminar series spanning a wide range of topics including computer science, mathematics, economics, biology, meteorology, psychology, and physics. Everyone is welcome.
  
  
• The CogSci mailing list
  
  
• (external) KDnuggets
  KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, Text Mining, and Knowledge Discovery.
  
  
• (external) Machine Learning List
  The Machine Learning List is a moderated mailing list for all matters relevant to the scientific study of machine learning.
  
  
• (external) Machine Learning News
  IMLS list to post announcements of jobs, calls for papers, announcements of machine-learning-related events, software releases, paper abstracts, etc.
  
  
• (external) Connectionists
  Technical issues relating to neural computation.
  
  

Other things for new students to do:

• Learn to use a version control system for your projects, e.g., Subversion.
• Learn to use latex.
• There are a few blogs on machine learning, with interesting reviews on recent conferences. For example, hunch.net, nlpers.