ReadMe: Add new markdown version of ReadMe

Author: Srivatsan Ramanujam

CMakeLists.txt

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 install(
     FILES
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ReadMe.txt"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/README.md"
         "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/ReleaseNotes.txt"
     DESTINATION doc
     COMPONENT core

README.md

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+![](./doc/imgs/magnetic-icon.png) ![](./doc/imgs/agile-icon.png) ![](./doc/imgs/deep-icon.png)
+=================================================
+**MADlib** is an open-source library for scalable in-database analytics.
+It provides data-parallel implementations of mathematical, statistical and
+machine learning methods for structured and unstructured data.
+
+Installation and Contribution
+==============================
+See the project webpage  [`MADlib Home`](http://madlib.net) for links to the
+latest binary and source packages. For installation and contribution guides,
+please see [`MADlib Wiki`](https://github.com/madlib/madlib/wiki)
+
+User and Developer Documentation
+==================================
+The latest documentation of MADlib modules can be found at [`MADlib
+Docs`](http://doc.madlib.net) or can be accessed directly from the MADlib
+installation directory by opening
+[`doc/user/html/index.html`](doc/user/html/index.html).
+
+
+Architecture
+=============
+The following block-diagram gives a high-level overview of MADlib's
+architecture.
+
+
+![MADlib Architecture](./doc/imgs/architecture.png)
+
+
+Third Party Components
+======================
+MADlib incorporates material from the following third-party components
+
+1. [`argparse 1.2.1`](http://code.google.com/p/argparse/) "provides an easy, declarative interface for creating command line tools"
+2. [`Boost 1.46.1 (or newer)`](http://www.boost.org/) "provides peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries"
+3. [`CERN ROOT`](http://root.cern.ch/) "is an object oriented framework for large scale data analysis"
+4. [`doxypy 0.4.2`](http://code.foosel.org/doxypy) "is an input filter for Doxygen"
+5. [`Eigen 3.0.3`](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page) "is a C++ template library for linear algebra"
+6. [`PyYAML 3.10`](http://pyyaml.org/wiki/PyYAML) "is a YAML parser and emitter for Python"
+
+Licensing
+==========
+License information regarding MADlib and included third-party libraries can be
+found inside the [`license`](/license) directory.
+
+Release Notes
+=============
+Changes between MADlib versions are described in the
+[`ReleaseNotes.txt`](/ReleaseNotes.txt) file.
+
+Papers and Talks
+=================
+* [`MAD Skills : New Analysis Practices for Big Data (VLDB 2009)`](http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/vldb09-madskills.pdf)
+
+
+Related Software
+=================
+* [`PivotalR`](https://github.com/madlib-internal/PivotalR) - PivotalR also lets
+the user to run the functions of the open-source big-data machine learning
+package `MADlib` directly from R.
+* [`PyMADlib`](https://github.com/gopivotal/pymadlib) - PyMADlib is a python
+wrapper for MADlib, which brings you the power and flexibility of python
+with the number crunching power of `MADlib`.