Pedro Domingos

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World Pedro Domingos

Publisher Marketing: Under the aegis of machine learning in our data-driven machine age, computers are programming themselves and learning about and solving an extraordinary range of problems, from the mundane to the most daunting. Today it is machine learning programs that enable Amazon and Netflix to predict what users will like, Apple to power Siri s ability to understand voices, and Google to pilot cars. These programs are already helping us fight the war on cancer and predict the movements of the stock market, and they are making great headway with instant language translation and discovering new laws of nature. But machine learning is incomplete, and its practitioners across the globe are seeking the most powerful algorithm of all. "The Master Algorithm" will not be limited to solving particular problems but will be able to learn anything and solve any problem, however difficult, and Pedro Domingos, a trailblazing computer scientist, is at the very forefront of the search for it. With the Master Algorithm in hand and data as its fuel, machine learning essentially the automation of discovery, a kind of scientific method on steroids will become the most powerful technology humanity has ever devised. And "The Master Algorithm" will be its bible." Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2015 (EAN 9780465065707, Hardcover) Booklist 08/01/2015 pg. 11 (EAN 9780465065707, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Contributor Bio:  Domingos, Pedro Pedro Domingos is a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He is a winner of the SIGKDD Innovation Award, the highest honor in data science. A fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, he lives near Seattle. Contributor Bio:  Foster, Mel Mel Foster, an audiobook narrator since 2002, won an Audie Award for "Finding God in Unexpected Places" by Philip Yancey. He has also won several "AudioFile" Earphones Awards. Best known for mysteries, Mel has also narrated classic authors such as Thoreau, Nabokov, and Whitman.