Statisticians at German technical university Technische Universitat Dortmund built a model that used machine learning to predict Spain will win the 2018 World Cup. The prediction is based on 100,000 simulations of the tournament. Spain was followed by Germany, Brazil, France and Belgium in terms of their chances of winning. And it should be a good tournament because Spain, with a 17.8 percent chance of winning, is only slightly ahead of Germany at 17.1 percent. Brazil follows with 12.3 percent, and then it's France (11.2 percent) and Belgium (10.4 percent).

Big data in machine learning is the future. But how to deal with data analysis and limited resources: Computational power, data distribution, energy or memory? From September 25th to 28th, 2017 TU Dortmund University, Germany, hosts the 4th summer school on resource-aware machine learning. Topics of the lectures include: Exercises help bringing the contents of the lectures to life. The PhyNode low power computation platform was developed at the collaborative research center SFB 876.