From: VideoLectures on Wed, Oct 13 2010 7:24 PM

Screen cultures today are dominated by narrative and its modes of framing. The advent of “Pervasive” or “Ubiquitous” media such as mobile smartphones with GPS sensing means that new dispersed forms of narrative interaction are now possible for the public. The convergence of mobile technologies an...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Oct 13 2010 7:21 PM

Kernel methods have become powerful tools in machine learning. They perform well in many applications, and there is also a well-developed theory of what makes a given kernel useful for a given learning problem. However, this theory requires viewing kernels as implicit (and often difficult to cha...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Oct 13 2010 5:55 PM

In this lecture, Professor Mazzotta discusses Inferno IX-XI. An impasse at the entrance to the City of Dis marks Virgil’s first failure in his role as guide (Inferno IX). The invocation of Medusa by the harpies that descend while they wait for divine aid elicits Dante's first address to the...

From: VideoLectures on Wed, Oct 13 2010 5:29 PM

Kernel methods have proven to be very powerful tools in machine learning. In addition, there is a well-developed theory of sufficient conditions for a kernel to be useful for a given learning problem. However, while a kernel function can be thought of as just a pairwise similarity function that ...