Dr. Usama Fayyad is Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President, Research & Strategic Data Solutions

Today, I watched Dr. Usama Fayyad's talks and his interview. The talks were very interesting. It was very eye opening to see from a business perspective on how to see the data mining and machine learning research.

http://videolectures.net/kdd07_fayyad_inter/

http://videolectures.net/kdd07_fayyad_fmtw/

Free Online Book Information theory and Machine Learning

Very interesting book available free online

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~mackay/itprnn/book.pdf

Enjoy reading