Tom
Mitchell
E. Fredkin
University Professor
Chair, Machine
Learning Department
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Tom.Mitchell@cmu.edu,
412 268 2611, GHC 8211 Resume,
A
personal interview
Assistant: Sharon Cavlovich,
412 268-5196
What is Machine Learning, and where is it headed?

Video interview (5 min)
- Mining
Our Reality, the emerging trend toward mining personal data,
in Science,
December 2009.
- Brains,
Meaning and Corpus Statistics, video lecture on how the human
brain represents
word meanings, March 2009. (
slides only).
- How
Will We Populate the Semantic Web on a Vast Scale? video of
Keynote talk at ISWC, October,
2009. (slides
only)
- The
Discipline of Machine
Learning, my perspective on this research field, July 2006
- Machine
Learning and Human Learning, are these two fields of inquiry
related? slides, November 2006

- How does the human brain represent word meanings?
- Can computers learn (forever) to
extract information from the web?
Online tutorials:
Colleagues
- Machine
Learning, 10-701, Spring 2010
- Advanced
Statistical NLP: Read the Web , Fall 2009
- Machine
Learning, 10-601, Spring 2009
- Machine
Learning, 10-601, Spring 2008
- Read
the Web, 10-709, Spring 2006.
- Machine
Learning, 10-701 and 15-781 ,
Fall 2005.
- Machine
Learning, 10-701 and 15-781 ,
Spring 2005.
- Machine
Learning, 10-701 and 15-781 ,
Fall 2003.
- Statistical
Approaches to Learning and Discovery, 10-702 and 15-802 ,
Spring, 2003.
- Computational
Analyses of Brain Imaging, 10-731 and 85-735 ,
Spring, 2003.
- Machine
Learning, 10-701 and 15-781 ,
Fall 2002.
- Statistical
Approaches to Learning, 15-889 and 36-835 ,
Spring 1999.
- Machine
Learning, 15-681 and 15-781 ,
Fall 1998.