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<span style="color:#443B33">I’m writing to inform you of an outstanding opportunity for your graduate students to interact with some of the leading practitioners in one of the most important recent areas of machine learning—deep learning.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#443B33">Would you please share with your interested graduate students this information about the
<strong>2019 Duke Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS), to be held June 17-21, 2019</strong>, at Duke University?</span></p>
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<span style="color:#443B33">The MLSS will focus on the areas of machine learning that have made the biggest advances in utility over the last several years, including deep learning. The class will concentrate on methods that allow machine-learning algorithms
to train effectively on massive datasets, with emphasis on the latest methods for image and video analysis, natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and data synthesis/modeling. In addition to classroom instruction, participants will be given hands-on
training in code development and testing, with application to real data sets.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#443B33">The program is taught by faculty from Duke University, recently ranked #6 among U.S. universities and
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#8 worldwide in artificial intelligence and machine-learning research</a> <em>(NeurIPS Publication Index)</em>.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#443B33">You can find more information about program prerequisites, curriculum and registration on the
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<span style="color:#443B33">Thank you for forwarding this message to interested graduate students in your program.</span></p>
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<span style="color:#443B33">Sincerely,</span></p>
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<strong><span style="color:#443B33">Lawrence Carin</span></strong><span style="color:#443B33"><br>
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering<br>
Vice Provost for Research<br>
Duke University</span></p>
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