Find a story about machine learning in the popular press (broadly construed, to include blogs or whatever) and write a summary of the story, from a technical perspective, about 1/2 page in length. Information to include would be things like what the problem they're trying to solve is, how they addressed it, where they got their data, how much data they had, and what it looked like, why they considered the problem interesting, etc. Turn it in as a plain text (or simple markdown format) file. No figures or diagrams or equations---we'll be doing machine learning with these as a dataset at that would complicate our lives. Also, be sure to do a spelling correction, because misspellings will make our lives more difficult later. Do not include your name in the file; I can get that from moodle, and it would be a hassle to strip names off. Remember that other students will be marking these (in addition to myself) so please try to give them something interesting to read; something you'd enjoy reading yourself.
Due: Mon 28-Sep-2015.
(I will process them before class Tuesday, so please have them all in by 2pm Monday because it is a hassle to slip late ones into the processing pipeline.)