Machine Learning Workshop
C-DAC (formerly NCST) Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, conducted a two day workshop on Machine Learning (ML) on 19-20th December, 2008. The focus of the workshop was an introduction to various ML techniques and their usefulness in real life applications using an open source tool for ML called Weka.
The response for the workshop was overwhelming; as indicated by the number of participants, their background and the feedback we received from them.
The distribution of the 52 participants is as below:
Teachers : 32
Students : 07
Professionals : 13
The participants were from across the country. The professionals were with different profiles like researchers, analysts, consultants and project leaders from various companies like TCS, Bank of America and Info Edge among others.
Almost all the participants appreciated the efforts of the speakers, lab sessions, materials provided, administration etc. They also suggested to conduct such events annually for advanced fields like this, with possibly longer duration.