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MSN Dialup Internet Access – Predicting Future Customer Behavior and Understanding Future Value

  White Papers
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Analytical Reflective Slice Sampling: The Nonnegative Boltzmann Machine.
Oliver B. Downs.
Invited illustration of Neal's Slice Sampling, Annals of Statistics 31:3, June 2003.
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The Tunneling Salesman: Truncated Variational Approximations for Quantum Mechanical
Global Optimization.
Oliver B. Downs, Hagai Attias, Chris J.C. Burges & Robert Rounthwaite
Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2002-100, October 2002.
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High-temperature expansions for learning models of nonnegative data.
Oliver B. Downs.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, pp 465-471,T. K. Leen, T. G. Dietterich, V. Tresp, eds., MIT Press, 2001.
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The Nonnegative Boltzmann Machine.
Oliver B. Downs, David J.C. MacKay & Daniel D. Lee.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12, pp 428-434,
S. A. Solla, T. K. Leen, K.-R. Müller, eds., MIT Press, 2000.
  Recent Presentations
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Using Data Mining to Empower Business Strategy and The Nonnegative Boltzmann Machine (as presented at Microsoft Research, October 2004 & Amazon.com, November 2004): Online Slideshow
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The Tunnelling Salesman" (as presented at CalTech IQI, Overture, Fair Isaac and The Snowbird Learning Workshop, March 2003 and Amazon.com, November 2004): Online Slideshow