> "... it's a shame he'll likely need to get tenure before finishing it." Judging by his homepage [1] he is at least on the tenure track. Unless the notion of

> "... it's a shame he'll likely need to get tenure before finishing it." Judging by his homepage [1] he is at least on the tenure track. Unless the notion of an Assistant Professor is different over in the states. I agree about the sentiment about the book, at least the chapter on Neural Networks needs some serious work (I believe there are errors in there, maybe I should mail Hal). As a person and researcher I only have good things to say about him, do check out it his blog if you are into ML and NLP [2] and let's hope he will find the time to continue polishing on this freely available book (I do like his writing). [1]: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/ http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~hal/ [2]: http://nlpers.blogspot.com/ http://nlpers.blogspot.com/