23 December 2014
University College London, M.Sc in machine learning
Message from Mark Herbster, M.Sc machine learning programme director:
Machine learning is a sub discipline of computer science which studies the process of automatic inference from data. This field draws on ideas and methods from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines such as artificial intelligence, connectionism, optimization, pattern recognition, and statistics. The commercial successes of machine learning are widespread, some well known examples are in speech recognition, robotic vision, online ad placement, fraud detection, and bioinformatics. At UCL we offer an M.Sc in machine learning that is both scientifically rigorous and industrially relevant.
UCL has an internationally recognised faculty in machine learning, affiliated with two major research centres, the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit. The programme also benefits from close collaboration with the Bioinformatics Group and Digital Biology.
After six successful years of running the M.Sc in intelligent systems, UCL split it into two tightly interconnected programmes: M.Sc machine learning, aimed at students trained in computer science or another quantitative science, and M.Sc computational statistics and machine learning, co taught with the statistics department.