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SUMMARY:Cops\, Crops and Mobile Phones: Machine Learning in Africa - John 
 Quinn - Makerere University\, Uganda
DTSTART:20090706T103000Z
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CONTACT:Microsoft Research Cambridge Talks Admins
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* In the developing world a great deal of data is co
 llected which is rarely fully exploited by AI researchers. I will introduc
 e three applications of machine learning that we are working on at Makerer
 e University: prediction and surveillance of disease outbreaks using varie
 d sources of data\, robust traffic monitoring from CCTV images and crop di
 sease diagnosis with computer vision. \n\n*Biography:* John Quinn received
  a BA in Computer Science from the University of \nCambridge in 2000\, and
  a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (Institute \nfor Adaptive and Neur
 al Computation) in 2007. He is currently a lecturer \nin Computer Science 
 at Makerere University\, Uganda.\nHomepage: http://www.cit.ac.ug/jquinn
LOCATION:Small public lecture room\, Microsoft Research Ltd\, 7 J J Thomso
 n Avenue (Off Madingley Road)\, Cambridge
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