In this interview, Manuel (Mandy) Ruder (1914 - ) gives an account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan. Special attention is afforded to his family background, including information about his Romanian and Zionist parents farming in Palestine, their settlement in North Dakota, and eventually settling with his mother in Minneapolis after the tragic...
Creator:
Ruder, Manuel, 1914 -
Contributor:
Schloff, Linda (Interviewer)
Created:
2002-09-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
I am working on the design of predictive models that are both accurate and interpretable by a human. These models are built from association rules such as 'dyspepsia & epigastric pain -> heartburn.' Association rules are commonly used in the data mining community for database exploration, but have not been heavily employed in machine learning or...
Creator:
Rudin, Cynthia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2012-03-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
I will describe work on three areas related to crowd-based user-centered modeling:1) Growing Lists: We want to combining the knowledge of many people (experts) in order to create 'sets' of things that go together, starting from a small seed. The experts have varying levels of expertise. This is the same problem that Google Sets was designed to s...
Creator:
Rudin, Cynthia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Created:
2012-05-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.
Group testing was formalized by Dorfman in his 1943 paper and was originally used in WW-II to identify soldiers with syphilis. The main insight in this application is that blood samples from different soldiers can be combined to check if at least one of soldiers in the pool has the disease. Since then group testing has found numerous application...
Creator:
Rudra, Atri (University at Buffalo (SUNY))
Created:
2012-02-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications.