As is possibly quite obvious from an earlier post, I am currently engaged in a course of part time graduate studies. I’m going to ruminate somewhat on the why and the what here, primarily because I’d like to improve my writing skills (and therefore need to write more often). I’ve wanted to further my education and… Continue reading Part time academic
Category: Academia
Celebrating the life and work of Alan M. Turing
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending the ACM’s A.M. Turing Centenary Celebration in San Francisco. It was a fantastic event, as one audience member put it – “it’s like opening a computer history book and having all of the characters step out of the page”. The celebration featured a diverse range of… Continue reading Celebrating the life and work of Alan M. Turing
Training an artificial neural network
A few days ago I handed in the second assignment on my Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) module. The task was to train an ANN to detect attacks vs. normal access in the logs of a simulated military network. The data came from KDD Cup 99, of which we used a reduced set for the assignment.… Continue reading Training an artificial neural network