The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning

The Ninth International Conference on Machine Learning was held in Aberdeen, Scotland, from 1‐3 July 1992, with 198 participants in attendance. The conference covered a broad range of topics drawn from the general area of machine learning, including concept‐learning algorithms, clustering, speedup learning, formal analysis of learning systems, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and applications of machine learning. This article briefly touches on six selected talks that were of exceptional interest.