Welcome to the CLRC

The Computer Learning Research Centre is dedicated to the development of machine learning theory.

Our objectives are:

• Development of machine learning theory, including design of efficient algorithms and analysis of their properties


• Design and implementation of software based on the algorithms developed at the Centre


• Provision of consultancy, advice and seminars to external organizations


• Serving as a springboard for high-quality interdisciplinary research

Recent events:

• A very sad news: David Waltz, our longtime colleague in Columbia University, New York, passed away on 22 March 2012 after a long illness. David was an outstanding computer scientist and AI researcher. His work in the case-based reasoning and his early work in Vision are now in all standard AI text books. He was the President of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) and many other prestigious boards. He created and was the director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University. Alex Gammerman and Vladimir Vapnik worked with him in the CCLS Center and he also visited our Computer Learning Research Centre at Royal Holloway. He will be sorely missed by many colleagues and Ph.D. students with whom he worked. His memoriam is in the Columbia University Bulletin.


• The 2010 Workshop on Game-Theoretic Probability and Related Topics was held at CLRC on 21 - 23 June 2010.


• Professor Robert Merton (winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics) presented the 2010 Kolmogorov Lecture entitled "Observations on the Science of Finance in the Practice of Finance: Past, Present and Future" at 6pm on 23 February, Windsor Building Auditorium. The abstract of the talk can be found here).


• Sad news: on 7 December 2009 Ray J. Solomonoff passed away.


• On 8 October 2009, Glenn Shafer and his colleague Arthur Dempster were made honorary doctors in economics by the University of Economics, Prague. See Professor Shafer's acceptance speech.


• Yuri Gurevich of Microsoft Research gave a talk on "The Church-Turing Thesis: Story and Recent Progress" on 24th March 2009.


• Congratulations to our PhD student Misha Dashevskiy for winning the E.M.Gold award and a prize for the best paper in the 19th International conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2008). The title of the paper is "Aggregating Algorithm for a Space of Analytic Functions". The abstract of the paper is here.