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Research Area: Machine Learning |
Profile
Dr. John Langford is a Senior Researcher at Yahoo! Research. His work includes research in machine learning, game theory, steganography, and Captchas. He was previously a Research Associate Professor at the Toyota Technological Institute in Chicago. He has worked in the past at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yortown, NY under the Goldstine Fellowship. He earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2002 and a Physics/Computer Science double major from CalTech in 1997.
Recent Publications, Projects and News
- Conditional Probability Tree Estimation Analysis and Algorithms Alina Beygelzimer; John Langford; Yury Lifshits; Gregory Sorkin; Alex Strehl, UAI, 2009 [view abstract]
- Centmail: Rate Limiting via Certified Micro-Donations Sharad Goel; Jake Hofman; John Langford; David M. Pennock; Daniel M. Reeves, Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS), 2009
- Predictive Indexing for Fast Search Sharad Goel; John Langford; Alex Strehl, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), 2008

