Where machines go to school

February 11, 2005

The objects of their study are computer programs and algorithms - machines that are designed to solve complex problems, and whose strength lies in processing large and highly intricate quantities of data. Which is why the learning theorists under Bernhard Schölkopf, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, are not focusing on school and pedagogy, but rather on the question of how machines can learn. [more]