After a long wait, the Koller-Friedman textbook (the one titled “Bayesian Networks and Beyond” in its pre-publication days) is finally available to the general public. 1200 pages! An extraordinary, magnificent work of art and pedagogy.
Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques
by Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman
(MIT Press, Aug 2009) amazon book link
Also very interesting:
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NYT article on Daphne Koller:
Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence
By John Markoff
New York Times. May 3, 2008 - Wikipedia on Daphne Koller
- No Wikipedia article on Nir Friedman yet, but here is his home page
