The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World: Pedro Domingos: 9780465065707: Amazon.com: Books

The Master Algorithm is a book about Machine Learning. But while it claims to be about its future, the focus is more on its past. Domingos' gives us a tour of the five different Machine Learning fiefdoms (Evolutionaries, Connectionists, Symbolists, Bayesians, and Analogizers), how they connect, and what their histories are. At times the discussion gets a little too technical. Sentences like "...we can view what SVMs do with kernels, support vectors, and weights as mapping the data to a higher-dimensional space and finding a maximum-margin hyperplane in that space" (pg 196) make it clear Mr. Domingos is no Malcolm Gladwell.