# I’ve been accepted!
I have been accepted on to the: “MSc in Advanced Computing (Machine Learning and Data Mining)” postgraduate degree at the University of Bristol!
I feel so pleased, and so hyper about it - its fantastic… because Bristol University is a wonderful university, and it recently achieved 3rd best in the country in the Times Online for computer science. It is also a traditional university, but that is not why I chose to apply - as I believe that ex-polytechnics (such as my ol’ university - Oxford Brookes) are just as good as traditional universities.
During my masters I will be reading within the following areas:
- Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming (Symbolic AI and using Prolog)
- Machine Learning (using WEKA)
- Evolutionary Computing (such as Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming)
- Computational Intelligence
- Computational Genomics and Bioinformatics Algorithms
- Computational Neuroscience (including Artificial Neural Networks and aspects of Psychology and Neuroscience)
- Learning from Structured Data (including advanced Bayesian algorithms and Progol development)
- Pattern Analysis and Statistical Learning
I’ll also have to do a Masters Dissertation on a related subject, I have some ideas for a topic already (and have done for quite a while). These dissertations are usually between 15,000 and 20,000 words - I think.
I’m looking forward to starting!
p.s. If anyone is willing to fund me through the course then please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you.
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March 4th, 2008 at 11:07 am
[…] Oh, also this statement: “It is not Artificial Intelligence” Erm… Knowledge Bases are generally considered a subdivision of Artificial Intelligence. and this: “but some of the tools and techniques of AI are needed: neural networks, classifiers, heuristics, Bayesian networks and statistical analysis” These things have existed on the web for years either as part of search engines or product recommendations. e.g. Latent Semantic Indexing and Self Organising Maps are considered Artificial Intelligence on the Web. Note that things like Neural Networks, Classifiers, Heuristics, Bayesian Networks, Statistical Analysis, Latent Semantic Indexing and Self Organising Maps I have either studied already or will be studying very soon! […]