Substance, not hype, powers AI excitement at premier machine learning conference - Microsoft Research

This month, I will attend the Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), the premier gathering in the machine learning field. I've participated in this conference most years since it began in 1987 and I'm looking forward once again to catching up with colleagues and friends as well as exploring new developments in the field. Until recently, the conference attracted a few hundred attendees. The number of participants has grown rapidly in recent years and this year there are more than 4,500 people registered! This explosion of activity in machine learning is remarkable and reflects the positive trend of research making its way to the marketplace.