good morning [from] Les Houches

data protection [not from Les Houches]

While running a “kitchen” workshop on Bayesian privacy in Les Houches, Le Monde published on π day a recap of a recent report on AI commanded by the French Government. Among other things, it contains recommendations on alleviating the administrative blocks in accessing personal data, based on a model for data protection created decades earlier […]

oceanographers in Les Houches

Þe first internal research workshop of our ERC Synergy project OCEAN is taking place in Les Houches, French Alps, this coming week with 15 researchers gathering for brain-storming on some of the themes at the core of the project, like algorithmic tools for multiple decision-making agents, along with Bayesian uncertainty quantification and Bayesian learning under […]

expectation-propagation from Les Houches

As CHANCE book editor, I received the other day from Oxford University Press acts from an École de Physique des Houches on Statistical Physics, Optimisation, Inference, and Message-Passing Algorithms that took place there in September 30 – October 11, 2013.  While it is mostly unrelated with Statistics, and since Igor Caron already reviewed the book […]

Mont Blanc from Les Houches