Tapping into other kinds of technologies like big data analytics and machine learning, and the funding provided by their university's venture arms and other VCs keen to find the next big growth area in the world of technology, they can now, in effect, build out their own commercial laboratories as startups.
The report suggests that large-scale machine learning research programs should include funding for "public engagement activities".
I know, right now you're saying "But wait Matt, All I hear is that every hot new company in the space is based on machine learning and that VCs are funding machine learning companies in record numbers, even with the economy in question".
Przybyl said one thing Snapsheet intends to develop, given the funding, is machine learning that can predict what a customer's questions might be, before they ask them, about filing a claim or the status of a claim.
Currently a team of five, AppHero will use the new seed funding to hire machine learning experts to help grow the team.
Bessemer launches a seed fund for startups applying machine learning to health.
Ezra Sidran, a computer scientist, said he planned to apply for the naval research funding to investigate "unsupervised machine learning," in which a computer program independently "analyzes, remembers and learns".
Przybyl says they will be using the funding to improve their machine learning capabilities.
For example, in 1955, the Rockefeller Foundation received a proposal to fund a conference of mathematicians and machine learning pioneers at Dartmouth to be held the following summer.
Following a previous successful European commission funded project, a project named 'meta-learning assistant for providing user support in machine learning and data mining' (METAL 2002), investigated model selection and combination approaches.
