Blogs:
    Machine Learning(Theory)
    Readings in Machine Learning
    Yet Another Machine Learning
    natural language processing blog
    This Number Crunching Life
    Transhuman Goodness
    Revolutions News about R, statistics and the world of open source from the staff of REvolution Computing
    Social Media, Data Mining & Machine Learning
    The Noisy Channel
    Web Search
    Jeff's Search Engine Caffe
    Haystack Blog
    Knowledge Discovery and Opinion Mining
    Oddhead Blog
    SmartDataCollective
    Research on Search
    Grammar Gang

Research Group:
    Machine Learning Department@CMU
    Statistical Machine Learning UC Berkeley
    MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | CSAIL
    Machine Learning @ U of Toronto
    UTCS Machine Learning Research Group
    Machine Learning @ Cambridge
    THE EDINBURGH MACHINE LEARNING GROUP
    Machine Learning and Perception and all other Microsoft Research Group
    Machine Learning | Yahoo! Research
    International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)

Research Topics:
    Boosting
    Variational-Bayes
    Kernel-Machines
    Support Vector Machines
    Gaussian Processes
    Convex Optimization