From tesauro@watson.ibm.com Wed Mar 2 18:04:34 EST 1994 Article: 20755 of comp.ai Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20755 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews.watson.ibm.com!ferrari!tesauro From: tesauro@watson.ibm.com (Gerry Tesauro) Subject: NIPS*94 Call for Papers Sender: news@hawnews.watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 18:18:32 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM. Nntp-Posting-Host: ferrari.watson.ibm.com Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Lines: 124 ********* PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSION FORMAT FOR 1994 ********* CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, November 28 - Saturday, December 3, 1994 Denver, Colorado This is the eighth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. There will be no parallel sessions. There will also be one day of tutorial presentations (Nov 28) preceding the regular session, and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 2-3). Major categories for paper submission, and examples of keywords within categories, are the following: Neuroscience: systems physiology, cellular physiology, signal and noise analysis, oscillations, synchronization, inhibition, neuromodulation, synaptic plasticity, computational models. Theory: computational learning theory, complexity theory, dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, probability and statistics, approximation theory. Implementations: VLSI, optical, parallel processors, software simulators, implementation languages. Algorithms and Architectures: learning algorithms, constructive/pruning algorithms, localized basis functions, decision trees, recurrent networks, genetic algorithms, combinatorial optimization, performance comparisons. Visual Processing: image recognition, coding and classification, stereopsis, motion detection, visual psychophysics. Speech, Handwriting and Signal Processing: speech recognition, coding and synthesis, handwriting recognition, adaptive equalization, nonlinear noise removal. Applications: time-series prediction, medical diagnosis, financial analysis, DNA/protein sequence analysis, music processing, expert systems. Cognitive Science & AI: natural language, human learning and memory, perception and psychophysics, symbolic reasoning. Control, Navigation, and Planning: robotic motor control, process control, navigation, path planning, exploration, dynamic programming. Review Criteria: All submitted papers will be thoroughly refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, significance and clarity. Submissions should contain new results that have not been published previously. Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting final camera-ready copy. ********** PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSIONS FORMAT FOR 1994 ********** Paper Format: Submitted papers may be up to eight pages in length. The page limit will be strictly enforced, and any submission exceeding eight pages will not be considered. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to use the NIPS style files obtainable by anonymous FTP at the sites given below. Papers must include physical and e-mail addresses of all authors, and must indicate one of the nine major categories listed above, keyword information if appropriate, and preference for oral or poster presentation. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence will be sent to the first author. Submission Instructions: Send six copies of submitted papers to the address given below; electronic or FAX submission is not acceptable. Include one additional copy of the abstract only, to be used for preparation of the abstracts booklet distributed at the meeting. Submissions mailed first-class within the US or Canada must be postmarked by May 21, 1994. Submissions from other places must be received by this date. Mail submissions to: David Touretzky NIPS*94 Program Chair Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 USA Mail general inquiries/requests for registration material to: NIPS*94 Conference NIPS Foundation PO Box 60035 Pasadena, CA 91116-6035 USA (e-mail: nips94@caltech.edu) FTP sites for LaTex style files "nips.tex" and "nips.sty": helper.systems.caltech.edu (131.215.68.12) in /pub/nips b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.242.8) in /usr/dst/public/nips NIPS*94 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Gerry Tesauro, IBM; Program Chair, David Touretzky, CMU; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair, Bartlett Mel, Caltech; Workshops Chair, Todd Leen, OGI; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, Caltech; Local Arrangements, Lori Pratt, Colorado School of Mines; Tutorials Chairs, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Gerry Tesauro, IBM; Contracts, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM; Government & Corporate Liaison, John Moody, OGI; Overseas Liaisons: Marwan Jabri, Sydney Univ., Mitsuo Kawato, ATR, Alan Murray, Univ. of Edinburgh, Joachim Buhmann, Univ. of Bonn, Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar Univ. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 21, 1994 (POSTMARKED) -please post- Article 20756 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:20756 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!yktnews.watson.ibm.com!ferrari!tesauro From: tesauro@watson.ibm.com (Gerry Tesauro) Subject: NIPS*94 Call for Workshops Sender: news@hawnews.watson.ibm.com (NNTP News Poster) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 18:20:42 GMT Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM. Nntp-Posting-Host: ferrari.watson.ibm.com Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Lines: 64 CALL FOR PROPOSALS NIPS*94 Post-Conference Workshops December 2 and 3, 1994 Vail, Colorado Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 1994 conference, workshops on current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 2 and 3, 1994, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: active learning and control, architectural issues, attention, bayesian analysis, benchmarking neural network applications, computational complexity issues, computational neuroscience, fast training techniques, genetic algorithms, music, neural network dynamics, optimization, recurrent nets, rules and connectionist models, self- organization, sensory biophysics, speech, time series prediction, vision and audition, implementations, and grammars. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Concrete open and/or controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are particularly encouraged. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: 1) arranging short informal presentations by experts working on the topic, 2) moderating or leading the discussion and reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the ``gong show''), and 3) writing a brief summary. Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 21, 1994. (Express mail is not necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be accepted.) Proposals should include a title, a description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days), and the planned format. It should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of interest. Mail submissions to: Todd K. Leen, NIPS*94 Workshops Chair Department of Computer Science and Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology P.O. Box 91000 Portland Oregon 97291-1000 USA (e-mail: tleen@cse.ogi.edu) Name, mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail net address should be on all submissions. PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 21, 1994 Please Post Article 21681 of comp.ai: Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:21681 comp.ai.neural-nets:15961 Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!dst From: dst+@cs.cmu.edu (Dave Touretzky) Subject: NIPS: new reviewing procedure Message-ID: Sender: news@cs.cmu.edu (Usenet News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: dst.boltz.cs.cmu.edu Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Date: Sat, 16 Apr 1994 04:15:24 GMT Lines: 142 This year's NIPS conference will use reviewing procedures similar to those of AAAI and IJCAI. I've served on the program committees of all three; I know how important it is to provide adequate feedback to authors. As of this year, reviews without comments will not be accepted from any NIPS referee. Another change is that, for the first time, we're asking authors for drafts of full papers instead of extended abstracts; this should make it easier for referees to evaluate the technical content of submissions. The submission deadline is May 21. I've appended the call for papers to this note, though you've probably seen it before. For registration materials or general info, send mail to nips94@caltech.edu. Please don't send mail to me directly; I have enough to worry about already. Dave Touretzky NIPS*94 Program Chair ................................................................ CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, November 28 - Saturday, December 3, 1994 Denver, Colorado This is the eighth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks, and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. There will be no parallel sessions. There will also be one day of tutorial presentations (Nov 28) preceding the regular session, and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 2-3). Major categories for paper submission, and examples of keywords within categories, are the following: Neuroscience: systems physiology, cellular physiology, signal and noise analysis, oscillations, synchronization, inhibition, neuromodulation, synaptic plasticity, computational models. Theory: computational learning theory, complexity theory, dynamical systems, statistical mechanics, probability and statistics, approximation theory. Implementations: VLSI, optical, parallel processors, software simulators, implementation languages. Algorithms and Architectures: learning algorithms, constructive/pruning algorithms, localized basis functions, decision trees, recurrent networks, genetic algorithms, combinatorial optimization, performance comparisons. Visual Processing: image recognition, coding and classification, stereopsis, motion detection, visual psychophysics. Speech, Handwriting and Signal Processing: speech recognition, coding and synthesis, handwriting recognition, adaptive equalization, nonlinear noise removal. Applications: time-series prediction, medical diagnosis, financial analysis, DNA/protein sequence analysis, music processing, expert systems. Cognitive Science & AI: natural language, human learning and memory, perception and psychophysics, symbolic reasoning. Control, Navigation, and Planning: robotic motor control, process control, navigation, path planning, exploration, dynamic programming. Review Criteria: All submitted papers will be thoroughly refereed on the basis of technical quality, novelty, significance and clarity. Submissions should contain new results that have not been published previously. Authors are encouraged to submit their most recent work, as there will be an opportunity after the meeting to revise accepted manuscripts before submitting final camera-ready copy. ********** PLEASE NOTE NEW SUBMISSIONS FORMAT FOR 1994 ********** Paper Format: Submitted papers may be up to eight pages in length. The page limit will be strictly enforced, and any submission exceeding eight pages will not be considered. Authors are encouraged (but not required) to use the NIPS style files obtainable by anonymous FTP at the sites given below. Papers must include physical and e-mail addresses of all authors, and must indicate one of the nine major categories listed above, keyword information if appropriate, and preference for oral or poster presentation. Unless otherwise indicated, correspondence will be sent to the first author. Submission Instructions: Send six copies of submitted papers to the address given below; electronic or FAX submission is not acceptable. Include one additional copy of the abstract only, to be used for preparation of the abstracts booklet distributed at the meeting. Submissions mailed first-class within the US or Canada must be postmarked by May 21, 1994. Submissions from other places must be received by this date. Mail submissions to: David Touretzky NIPS*94 Program Chair Computer Science Department Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 USA Mail general inquiries/requests for registration material to: NIPS*94 Conference NIPS Foundation PO Box 60035 Pasadena, CA 91116-6035 USA (e-mail: nips94@caltech.edu) FTP sites for LaTex style files "nips.tex" and "nips.sty": helper.systems.caltech.edu (131.215.68.12) in /pub/nips b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.242.8) in /usr/dst/public/nips NIPS*94 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Gerry Tesauro, IBM; Program Chair, David Touretzky, CMU; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair, Bartlett Mel, Caltech; Workshops Chair, Todd Leen, OGI; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, Caltech; Local Arrangements, Lori Pratt, Colorado School of Mines; Tutorials Chairs, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Gerry Tesauro, IBM; Contracts, Steve Hanson, Siemens and Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM; Government & Corporate Liaison, John Moody, OGI; Overseas Liaisons: Marwan Jabri, Sydney Univ., Mitsuo Kawato, ATR, Alan Murray, Univ. of Edinburgh, Joachim Buhmann, Univ. of Bonn, Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar Univ. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MAY 21, 1994 (POSTMARKED) -please post- Article 23510 of comp.ai: Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!ddsw1!panix!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!purdue!lerc.nasa.gov!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!swiss.ans.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!ferrari.watson.ibm.com!tesauro From: tesauro@ferrari.watson.ibm.com (Gerry Tesauro) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: NIPS*94 Registration Date: 1 Aug 1994 18:05:49 GMT Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research Lines: 24 Message-ID: <31jdht$sfo@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ferrari.watson.ibm.com Registration for NIPS*94 is now open. A registration brochure is available on-line via the NIPS*94 Mosaic homepage (http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/afs/cs/project/cnbc/nips/NIPS.html), or by anonymous FTP: FTP site: mines.colorado.edu (138.67.1.3) FTP file: /pub/nips94/nips94-registration-brochure.ps The brochure contains the registration form and describes the program highlights, including the list of invited speakers and tutorial speakers. People without access to FTP or Mosaic may request a copy of the brochure by e-mail to "nips94@mines.colorado.edu" or by physical mail to: NIPS*94 Registration Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences Colorado School of Mines Golden, CO 80401 USA -- Gerry Tesauro NIPS*94 General Chair