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# I’ve been accepted!

Personal, academic @ 03 November 2007

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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