Monday, August 1, 2016
Simons Foundation Gives $1.5M to Explore New Approaches to Data Mining
It takes a well-trained eye to spot an irregular heartbeat in the peaks and valleys of an electrocardiogram.
The same goes for identifying an extinct ape from a single fossilized tooth, or telling an original van Gogh from a fake.
But in recent years, applied mathematician Ingrid Daubechies has been training computers to churn through ECG tracings, high-resolution scans of fossils, paintings and other complex digital data and work things out automatically...