Machine Learning For Cyber Security

Arthur Samuel, an early American leader in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence, coined the term “Machine Learning” in 1959 while at IBM. He defined machine learning as “the field
of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.” However, there is no universally accepted definition for machine learning. Different authors define the term
differently. We give below two more definitions. 1. Machine learning is programming computers to optimize a performance criterion using exam- ple data or past experience. We have a model defined up to some parameters, and learning is
the execution of a computer program to optimize the parameters of the model using the train�ing data or past experience. The model may be predictive to make predictions in the future, or
descriptive to gain knowledge from data, or both (see [2] p.3). 2. The field of study known as machine learning is concerned with the question of how to con- struct computer programs that automatically improve with experience (see [4], Preface.).