We have finished our first internship between InSTEDD and Trinity College. Juan Pablo and Qianqian did an amazing job putting together an SVM classifier using libSVM for suggesting tags inside Riff items. They tested the implementation with Reuters...

It is well known in the project management world that adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. This is known as Brooks' law. An analogy is that you can't use 9 women to make a baby in one month. A couple of days ago, at Manas we did...

This week a nice coincidence made possible that I met personally Taha Kass-Hout in DC. We've been working for Instedd creating a collaborative disease detection and surveillance platform with some machine learning tools. Luckily the restaurant's tablecloth...

Today we had the orientation presentation for an Internship that two students from Trinity College will be doing around Riff/RNA. They will be helping us build some classification tools involving machine learning with SVM's and Bayesian classifiers...