Posted on 18-12-2003

Kiwi Spam Guru sponsored to MIT Spam Conference

Organisers of the Spam Conference 2004 have sponsored Richard Jowsey to be a speaker at the January conference in Massachusetts. Last year the
conference attracted 580 attendees from the USA and other
countries.

Jowsey, chief architect of the Death2Spam project, will focus
his presentation on the automatic tuning of Bayesian spam filters to
achieve in excess of 99.9% accuracy. A bit nervous is
how Jowsey describes his build-up to the event.When you
stand up in front of 500 of the worlds sharpest anti-spam minds, and
describe the advanced Bayesian mathematics that these MIT professors
grew up on, there's no room for waffling. Fortunately, I have a
lot of cutting-edge information as a result of the commercial release of
Death2Spam and the statistics we are now harvesting. The MIT
organisers think it's knowledge worth sharing.

Dr. Paul Graham, principal organiser of the Spam Conference has based this
year's format on the same successful format as last year - a one-day
conference which will be "simply a series of quick, concentrated
talks, and then we all go out for dinner.
Sponsoring Jowsey and his wife all the way from New Zealand is testament
to the high regard the organisers have for his work and reflects well on
the standing of New Zealand technology on the world stage.

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client's computer, adaptively learning to deal with new forms of spam
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