Google Calendar Apps Employs Machine Learning - InformationWeek

Google has employed machine learning on its Calendar application in an effort to help its users better keep track of, and complete, long-term goals. Users simply add a personal goal -- like hitting the gym three times a week, for example -- and Google Calendar will help them find the time and stick to it. Setting a goal requires the user to answer a few questions, specifying duration and times. From there Calendar will look at the user's schedule and find the best windows to schedule time to help complete the goal. It's another example of a major technology company using machine learning -- the concept of pattern recognition and computational learning theory -- to make its users' lives easier.