Data Science, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery

'A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts', Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft

'Machine learning is going to result in a real revolution', Greg Papadopoulos, CTO, Sun

What is the most popular course at Stanford University according to the rating journal Forbes? Machine learning

Wide range of applications

Information retrieval, information extraction, social network analysis, on-line advertising, large-scale data analytics, big data, adaptive learning, bioinformatics, economy markets, graph mining, recommender systems, spam detection, web mining and etc.