FEATURE ARTICLE
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Computers taught to discern patterns, detect anomalies and apply decision algorithms can help secure computer systems and find volcanoes on Venus
Carla Brodley, Terran Lane, Timothy Stough
Acknowledgments
This research has been carried out with the support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory under Grant #960628, of IBM under Grant #6712757 and of NASA under Grant #NAG5-6971. Terran Lane's research was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense. The research on land-cover classification was carried out jointly with Mark Friedl from the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University.
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