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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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A former F-15 pilot and chief scientist at investment software firm Lucena Research, Tucker Balch is a professor for the School of Computer in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Balch’s doctoral research focused on machine learning for robots, but he now works on the challenges of applying machine learning to finance. Balch has shared his expertise with others on Coursera and Udacity, where he has taught more than 170,000 students in computational finance.