Title: Cultural Interest W09
Course: CS171: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

- “Machine learning” - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- “Data mining” - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Proof that Decision Tree information gain is always non-negative (problem 3, pp. 4-5).
- Viola & Jones, Learning, Boosting, Vision [PDF; PPT] (The slide show describes a machine learning system that learns to recognize scale-independent human faces in images at video streaming rates. For more information, read the two papers immediately below)
- Reading: Viola & Jones, 2004, “Robust Real-Time Face Detection”
- Reading: Freund & Schapire, 1999, “A Short Introduction to Boosting”