Last week I attended Interface 2008, which was the 40th symposium of a conference celebrating the interface between computing science and statistics. It was held at the Durham Marriott, in Durham, North Carolina. The Interface series of conferences is sponsored by the Interface Foundation, and this year’s conference was hosted by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences.
I particularly enjoyed the sessions on data analysis and knowledge extraction – finding patterns and knowledge in large, complex, high-dimensional datasets. Along these lines, I gave a talk titled “Interactive Text Analysis with Iterative Denoising”.
Durham, a former tobacco town, is home to Duke University and serves as one vertex of Research Triangle Park. One restaurant I particularly enjoyed was Toast, a small but good paninoteca, which was within walking distance of the hotel.
