CSAIL Colloquium
Title: Maximum Entropy and Species Distribution Modeling
Speaker: Robert Schapire, Princeton University
Date: Thursday, May 1 2008
Time: 4:00PM to 5:00PM
Location: 32-G449(Patil)
Modeling the geographic distribution of a plant or animal species is a
critical problem in conservation biology: to save a threatened species,
one first needs to know where it prefers to live, and what its
requirements are for survival. From a machine-learning perspective, this is an especially challenging problem in which the learner is presented with no negative examples and often only a tiny number of positive examples more >>