From gp@stat.Duke.EDU Fri Mar 21 22:11:46 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA02698 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:11:37 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12712 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:11:35 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab14288; 21 Mar 97 20:49:30 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab14286; 21 Mar 97 20:32:44 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01693; 21 Mar 97 20:32:30 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21862; 21 Mar 97 14:23:02 EST Received: from davinci.isds.duke.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa25202; 21 Mar 97 14:22:44 EST Received: from boninsegna.isds.duke.edu (boninsegna.isds.duke.edu [152.3.22.51]) by davinci.isds.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA08370; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:01:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gp@localhost) by boninsegna.isds.duke.edu (8.8.4/8.7.1) id NAA03870; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:01:37 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:01:37 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703211801.NAA03870@boninsegna.isds.duke.edu> From: Giovanni Parmigiani To: bayes-news@stat.cmu.edu, allstat@mailbase.ac.uk, ai-stats@WATSTAT.UWATERLOO.CA, iasc@FISHER.STAT.UNIPG.IT, s-news@utstat.utoronto.edu, uai@ghost.CS.ORST.EDU, ml@ics.uci.edu, DAList@fuqua.duke.edu, news-announce-conferences@uunet.uu.net, ai-medicine@SMI.Stanford.EDU, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, DUKESTAT-L@mc.duke.edu, faculty@econ.duke.edu, gradstud@econ.duke.edu, cstheory@cs.duke.edu, stat@niehs.nih.gov, faculty@stat.ncsu.edu, grad.a-k@stat.ncsu.edu, grad.l-z@stat.ncsu.edu, faculty@stat.unc.edu, students@stat.unc.edu cc: box@stat.Duke.EDU, cjg@stat.Duke.EDU, gp@stat.Duke.EDU Subject: MODELING WORKSHOP: CALL FOR POSTERS Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.63) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII ====================================================================== CALL FOR POSTERS -- CALL FOR TRAVEL FUNDING APPLICATIONS ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ON STOCHASTIC MODEL BUILDING AND VARIABLE SELECTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Duke university, Durham, NC, October 9-10, 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP Advances in statistical methodology and computing are opening opportunities for statistical analysis and modeling of complex data sets. In this endeavor, it is becoming increasingly common to use computer-based tools for guiding the initial specification of the main features of statistical models. Recently, a new generation of stochastic algorithms has been emerging as an important augmentation to traditional deterministic strategies. Examples include stochastic search methods for variable selection, graphical models, selection of variable transformations and interactions, wavelet thresholding, ARMA modeling, CART, MARS, neural networks, data mining and more. The goal of the workshop is to promote interaction between researchers involved in diverse aspects of this field. PROGRAM The program of the Workshop will include both talks and poster presentations. The talks will be invited, and will be organized in 5 or 6 sessions, each including 2 or 3 related presentations. Ample time will be allowed for floor discussion. No parallel sessions will be planned, to encourage interaction among participants with different interests and background. The meeting will run from Thursday morning October 9 to Friday afternoon, October 10, 1997. A poster session open to contributors will take place the evening of October 9, and will also provide a venue for further informal interaction. Further details about the Workshop are available at the www site http://www.isds.duke.edu/conferences/GP97/vs97.html The site will be updated as soon as more detailed information about the program and participants becomes available. This Workshop is part of STATISTICS WEEK 1997 at Duke University. Participants may be interested in the other meetings: * THE 1997 NBER/NSF TIME SERIES SEMINAR (Oct 10-11) * WORSKHOP ON WAVELETS AND STATISTICS (Oct 12-13) Further details are available at http://www.isds.duke.edu/conferences/fall97.html CALL FOR POSTERS We are actively seeking presentations for the poster session. These are some of the relevant topics for discussion at the workshop: Stochastic versus deterministic search for variable selection. Modelling, elicitation and calibration issues. Graphical models, causal modelling, large data bases, visualization, data-mining and other topics in artificial intelligence. Selection of transformations and interactions, generalized linear models, generalized additive models, neural networks. Model choice and variable selection issues in clustering and hierarchical models. Partition models. Stochastic CART and MARS. Computing issues and algorithms. MCMC Jump diffusion. Bayes factors and marginal model probability calculations. Stochastic annealing. Case studies from any field of applications. Decision analysis and utility in variable selection and modelling problems. Modelling the cost of variables. Computing algorithms. Time Series and Wavelets REGISTRATION AND TRAVEL SUPPORT The Workshop organizers have applied for an NSF Group Travel Grant for participants from the USA to attend the Workshop. Interactive registration and grant application forms are available at the www site http://www.isds.duke.edu/conferences/GP97/vs97.html PROCEEDINGS A World Wide Web version of the proceedings of the Workshop will be created at the ISDS www site. Papers will be made available as soon as the link information is sent to us. Instructions for submission are posted on the workshop site. We look forward to seeing you at the Workshop. The Organizing Committee: John Geweke, Giovanni Parmigiani (Chair) Mike West The Program Committee: David Draper, John Geweke, David Madigan, Giovanni Parmigiani, Mike West From jose@kreizler.rutgers.edu Fri Mar 21 22:11:47 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id WAA02700 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:11:38 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12714 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 22:11:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa14300; 21 Mar 97 20:59:07 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa14290; 21 Mar 97 20:34:22 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01699; 21 Mar 97 20:33:41 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25490; 21 Mar 97 18:08:09 EST Received: from kreizler.rutgers.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa23499; 21 Mar 97 18:07:49 EST Received: from kreizler.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (barry-a-asy-13.rutgers.edu [128.6.226.77]) by kreizler.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05276 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 1997 18:06:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3333BDBF.16E1@kreizler.rutgers.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 06:08:47 -0500 From: Stephen Jose Hanson X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Graduate Students: New programs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit PLEASE REPOST... The Department of Psychology of Rutgers University-Newark Campus is immediately soliciting Graduate Student Candidates in the area of COGNITIVE SCIENCE. Highly Competitive (18-20k$) Graduate RESEARCH Assistantships are available for students to bridge from Computer Science or EE to Psychology or specifically in areas of Cognitive Science. The new program in Psychology will include new tracks in COGNITIVE AND PERCEPTUAL SYSTEMS; EMOTION & ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR SYSTEMS and COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE: Relevant interest areas are in Connectionist Modeling, Cognitive modeling, Intelligent Tutoring systems, Learning systems, Distance learning, or Multimedia systems. Research opportunites exist across Psychology-Rutgers, NJ Center for Multimedia Research and Center for Compuational Neuroscience (with CMBN). Please send as soon as possible your applications to Professor Stephen Jos Hanson, Chair, Department of Psychology, 101 Warren Street, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102. Email inquires can be made to jose@psychology.rutgers.edu. PLEASE REPOST... Stephen Jose Hanson Professor & Chair Department of Psychology Rutgers University Newark, NJ 07102 email: jose@psychology.rutgers.edu voice: 201-648-5095 fax: 201-648-1171 From jordan@psyche.mit.edu Sat Mar 22 09:14:31 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id JAA04756 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:14:25 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA16182 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 09:14:23 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa14288; 21 Mar 97 20:47:30 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa14286; 21 Mar 97 20:32:34 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01689; 21 Mar 97 20:31:45 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20447; 21 Mar 97 13:10:27 EST Received: from PSYCHE.MIT.EDU by CS.CMU.EDU id aa07718; 21 Mar 97 13:09:39 EST Received: by psyche.mit.edu (4.1/DA1.0.4) id AA08679; Fri, 21 Mar 97 13:09:29 EST From: Michael Jordan Message-Id: <9703211809.AA08679@psyche.mit.edu> Subject: erratum To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Fri, 21 Mar 97 13:09:29 EST Cc: Michael Jordan X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] In the NIPS*97 Call for Workshop Proposals that was posted earlier this week, there was an error. Proposals should be sent via email to: steven@lexicus.mot.com and not to mpp@watson.ibm.com as stated erroneously in the Call. Mike Jordan From harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk Sat Mar 22 18:05:41 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id SAA05477 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 18:05:35 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA19172 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 18:05:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa15996; 22 Mar 97 17:21:06 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15994; 22 Mar 97 17:11:21 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02430; 22 Mar 97 17:10:47 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa11898; 22 Mar 97 11:30:52 EST Received: from acacia.sucs.soton.ac.uk by RI.CMU.EDU id aa26565; 22 Mar 97 11:30:32 EST Received: from cogsci.soton.ac.uk (neuro.psy.soton.ac.uk [152.78.195.85]) by acacia.sucs.soton.ac.uk (8.8.2/server) with SMTP id QAA26947; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:30:10 GMT Received: from cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk (cogsci.soton.ac.uk) by cogsci.soton.ac.uk (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA07562; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:27:43 GMT From: Stevan Harnad Date: Sat, 22 Mar 97 16:26:01 GMT Message-Id: <970.9703221626@cogsci.ecs.soton.ac.uk> To: PSYCOLOQUY Subject: Psyc: Call for Papers Cc: PHILOS-L@liverpool.ac.uk, cogneuro@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu PSYCOLOQUY CALL FOR PAPERS PSYCOLOQUY is a refereed electronic journal (ISSN 1055-0143) sponsored on an experimental basis by the American Psychological Association and currently estimated to reach a readership of 50,000. PSYCOLOQUY publishes reports of new ideas and findings on which the author wishes to solicit rapid peer feedback, international and interdisciplinary ("Scholarly Skywriting"), in all areas of psychology and its related fields (biobehavioral science, cognitive science, neuroscience, social science, etc.). All contributions are refereed. All target articles, commentaries and responses must have (1) a short abstract (up to 100 words for target articles, shorter for commentaries and responses), (2) an indexable title, (3) the authors' full name(s), institutional address(es) and URL(s). In addition, for target articles only: (4) 6-8 indexable keywords, (5) a separate statement of the authors' rationale for soliciting commentary (e.g., why would commentary be useful and of interest to the field? what kind of commentary do you expect to elicit?) and (6) a list of potential commentators (with their email addresses). 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Commentators will be asked to review copy-editing only when changes have been substantial. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Stevan Harnad psyc@pucc.princeton.edu Editor, Psycoloquy phone: +44 1703 594-583 fax: +44 1703 593-281 Department of Psychology http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc University of Southampton http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html Highfield, Southampton ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM ftp://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/harnad/Psycoloquy news:sci.psychology.journals.psycoloquy gopher://gopher.princeton.edu/11/.libraries/.pujournals Sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) From Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at Mon Mar 24 15:19:55 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA14415 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:19:47 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08898 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:19:36 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa18590; 24 Mar 97 14:18:50 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18587; 24 Mar 97 13:45:39 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04169; 24 Mar 97 13:45:28 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05658; 24 Mar 97 7:14:18 EST Received: from [128.130.170.24] by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa06988; 24 Mar 97 7:13:19 EST Received: from galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at (leisch@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.170.37]) by fangorn.ci.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id NAA14771; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:12:10 +0100 Received: (from leisch@localhost) by galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA22194; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:11:56 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 13:11:56 +0100 Message-Id: <199703241211.NAA22194@galadriel.ci.tuwien.ac.at> From: Friedrich Leisch MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, nn-at@ci.tuwien.ac.at Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS X-Mailer: VM 6.20 under Emacs 19.34.1 CALL FOR PAPERS Special Section on Fusion of Neural Nets, Fuzzy Systems and Genetic Algorithms in Industrial Applications in the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. There is a tremendous interest in the theory and applications of computational intelligence using neural nets,fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms in many fields including Engineering Science and Business.This new field have united scientists and engineers in the development of theory and applications of computational techniques . Fortunately neural nets, fuzzy systems and genetic algoriths are not competitive but synergistic in nature where each respective technique enhances the capability of the other. This special issue is devoted to the fusion of neural nets, fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms in solving complex problems in the field of industrial electronics. Topics include but are not limited to: FUSION OF (any two techniques or more) Neural nets Fuzzy systems Genetic algorithms Chaos theory in solving engineering problems in the area of industrial electronics PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS OF Theory of fusion Robust working models of the techniques This special issue on the fusion of neural nets,fuzzy systems and genetic algorithms in INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS will be useful for engineers, scientists and managers who wish to improve their productivity by using the state of the art. This special volume will bring together a fairly representative sample of applications of computational intelligence from scientists and engineers working as team from all around the world. Prospective authors are requested to submit six copies of the completed manuscript to the guest editor by 15 APRIL 1997. Guest Editor L.C.Jain Director Knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems School of Physics & Electronic Systems Engineering University of South Australia The Levels Campus,Adelaide,SA,5095 Australia From jagota@cse.ucsc.edu Mon Mar 24 15:19:57 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA14418 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:19:50 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA08901 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:19:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa18618; 24 Mar 97 14:30:52 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18592; 24 Mar 97 13:46:29 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04175; 24 Mar 97 13:45:45 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa08462; 24 Mar 97 11:45:15 EST Received: from arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa08345; 24 Mar 97 11:44:44 EST Received: (from jagota@localhost) by arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id IAA08088 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:44:41 -0800 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 08:44:41 -0800 From: Arun Jagota Message-Id: <199703241644.IAA08088@arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: NCS print version Dear Connectionists: Neural Computing Surveys has signed an agreement with Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (LEA) to publish a print version of NCS, starting 1998. Annually, four print issues will be published. The electronic version will continue to be published, in the form announced earlier. Accepted papers will appear in the electronic version immediately upon acceptance and in the print version, with some time lag, in the approximate order of acceptance. Both versions will allow authors to reuse their work without permission, but with appropriate credit. For subscription information on the print version, contact jagota@cse.ucsc.edu For submission and other information about NCS, visit http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS or http://www.dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk/NCS/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Arun Jagota Robert R. Kidd Managing Editor Vice-President, Editorial Neural Computing Surveys Lawrence Erlbaum Associates From dld@cs.monash.edu.au Tue Mar 25 02:00:02 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA04174 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:59:55 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA16334 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 01:59:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa00508; 24 Mar 97 23:36:14 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00506; 24 Mar 97 23:19:53 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04603; 24 Mar 97 23:19:49 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21452; 24 Mar 97 22:48:15 EST Received: from dec11.cs.monash.edu.au by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa12079; 24 Mar 97 22:47:35 EST Received: (from dld@localhost) by dec11.cs.monash.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.9) id OAA02690; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:46:07 +1100 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:46:07 +1100 From: David L Dowe Message-Id: <199703250346.OAA02690@dec11.cs.monash.edu.au> Subject: CFPs, Complexity and information-theoretic approaches to biology Apparently-To: The Call For Papers (CFPs) below is on the WWW at http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~dld/PSB-3/PSB-3.Info.CFPs.html . CFPs: Complexity and information-theoretic approaches to biology ---------------------------------------------------------- This is the Call For Papers for the 3rd Pacific Symposium on BioComputing (PSB-3, 1998) conference stream on "Complexity and information-theoretic approaches to biology". PSB-98 will be held from 5-9 January, 1998, in Hawaii, at the Ritz Carlton Kapalua on Maui. Stream Organisers: David L. Dowe and Klaus Prank. Specific technical area to be covered by this stream: Kolmogorov (1965) and Chaitin (1966) studied the notions of complexity and randomness, with Solomonoff (1964), Wallace (1968) and Rissanen (1978) applying these to problems of statistical and inferential learning and to prediction. The methods of Solomonoff, Wallace and Rissanen have respectively come to be known as Algorithmic Probability (ALP), Minimum Message Length (MML) and Minimum Description Length (MDL). All of these methods relate to information theory, and can also be thought of in terms of Shannon's information theory, and can also be thought of in terms of Boltzmann's thermo-dynamic entropy. An MDL/MML perspective has been suggested by a number of authors in the context of approximating unknown functions with some parametric approximation scheme (such as a neural network). The designated measure to optimize under this scheme combines an estimate of the cost of misfit with an estimate of the cost of describing the parametric approximation (Akaike 1973, Rissanen 1978, Barron and Barron 1988). This stream invites all original papers of a biological nature which use notions of information and/or complexity, with no strong preference as to what specific nature. Such work has been done in problems of, e.g., protein folding and DNA string alignment. As we shortly describe in some detail, such work has also been done in the analysis of temporal dynamics in biology such as neural spike trains and endocrine (hormonal) time series analysis using the MDL principle in the context of neural networks and context-free grammar complexity. To elaborate on one of the relevant topics above, in the last couple of years or so, there has been a major focus on the aspect of timing in biological information processing ranging from fields such as neuroscience to endocrinology. The latest work on information processing at the single-cell level using computational as well as experimental approaches reveals previously unimagined complexity and dynamism. Timing in biological information processing on the single-cell level as well as on the systems level has been studied by signal-processing and information-theoretic approaches in particular in the field of neuroscience (see for an overview: Rieke et al. 1996). Using such approaches to the understanding of temporal complexity in biological information transfer, the maximum information rates and the precision of spike timing to the understanding of temporal complexity in biological information transfer, the maximum information rates and the precision of spike timing could be revealed by computational methods (Mainen and Sejnowski, 1995; Gabbiani and Koch 1996; Gabbiani et al., 1996). The examples given above are examples of some possible biological application domains. We invite and solicit papers in all areas of (computational) biology which make use of ALP, MDL, MML and/or other notions of information and complexity. In problems of prediction, as well as using "yes"/"no" predictions, we would encourage the authors to consider also using probabilistic prediction, where the score assigned to a probabilistic prediction is given according to the negative logarithm of the stated probability of the event. List of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) re PSB-98 : ----------------------------------------------------- Q1. How can my paper be included in PSB's hardbound proceedings? PSB publishes peer-reviewed full papers in an archival proceedings. Each accepted paper will be allocated 12 pages in the proceedings volume. Paper authors are required to register (and pay) for the conference by the time they submit their camera-ready copy, or the paper will not be published. Q2. How does a PSB publication compare to a journal publication? PSB papers are strenuously peer reviewed, and must report significant original material. PSB expects to be included in Indicus Medicus, Medline and other indexing services starting this year. All accepted full papers will be indexed just as if they had appeared in a journal. It is too early to assess the impact of a PSB paper quantitatively, but we will take every action we can to improve the visibility and significance of PSB publication. Q3. If I do not want to submit a full paper to PSB, but wish to participate? Authors who do not wish to submit a full paper are welcome to submit one page abstracts, which will be distributed at the meeting separately from the archival proceedings, and are also welcome to display standard or computer-interactive posters. Q4. What are the paper submission deadlines? Papers will be due July 14, although session chairs can to adjust this deadline at their discretion. Results will be announced August 22, and camera ready copy will be due September 22. Poster abstracts will be accepted until October 1, and on a space available basis after that. Poster space is limited, especially for interactive posters that require computer or network access. Q5. Where should I send my submission? All full papers must be submitted to the central PSB address so that we can track the manuscripts. Physical submittors should send five copies of their paper to: PSB-98 c/o Section on Medical Informatics Stanford University Medical School, MSOB X215 Stanford, CA 94305-5479 USA Electronic submission of papers is welcome. Format requirements for electronic submission will be available on the web page (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb) or from Russ Altman (altman@smi.stanford.edu). Electronic papers will be submitted directly to Dr. Altman. We prefer that all one page abstracts be submitted electronically. Please send them to us in plain ascii text or as a Microsoft Word file. If this is impossible, please contact Dr. Altman as soon as possible. Q6. How can I obtain travel support to come to PSB? We have been able to offer partial travel support to many PSB attendees in the past, including most authors of accepted full papers who request support. However, due to our sponsoring agencies' schedules, we are unable to offer travel awards before the registration (and payment) deadlines for authors. We recognize that this is inconvenient, and we are doing our best to rectify the situation. NO ONE IS GUARANTEED TRAVEL SUPPORT. Travel support applications will be available on our web site (see Q7). Q7. How can I get more information about the meeting? Check our web page: http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/psb or send email to the conference chair: hunter@nlm.nih.gov More information about the "Complexity and information-theoretic approaches to biology" stream is available on the WWW at http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~dld/PSB-3/PSB-3.Info.CFPs.html . This page was put together by Dr. David Dowe, Dept. of Computer Science, Monash University, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia e-mail: dld@cs.monash.edu.au Fax: +61 3 9905-5146 and Dr. Klaus Prank, Abteilung Klinische Endokrinologie Medizinische Hochschule Hannover Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1 D-30623 Hannover Germany e-mail: ndxdpran@rrzn-serv.de Tel.: +49 (511) 532-3827 Fax.: +49 (511) 532-3825 From marco@McCulloch.ing.UNIFI.IT Tue Mar 25 15:18:19 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA06120 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:18:04 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24730 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:18:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa00542; 24 Mar 97 23:46:04 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00519; 24 Mar 97 23:23:08 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04614; 24 Mar 97 23:22:22 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13553; 24 Mar 97 16:07:12 EST Received: from cesit1.unifi.it by RI.CMU.EDU id aa06580; 24 Mar 97 16:06:45 EST Received: from McCulloch.ing.UniFI.IT by CESIT1.UNIFI.IT (PMDF V5.0-4 #3688) id <01IGW1XNIBVK0008JH@CESIT1.UNIFI.IT> for Connectionists@CS.CMU.EDU; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:15:41 +0100 (MET) Received: by McCulloch.ing.UniFI.IT (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02495; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:13:34 +0100 Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 18:13:34 +0100 From: Marco Gori Subject: Summer School info (corrected) To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Message-id: <9703241713.AA02495@McCulloch.ing.UNIFI.IT> Organization: DSI - AI Lab - University of Florence (Italy) Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII I'd like to post the announcement of the international school on ``adaptive processing of sequences,'' which will be held in Vietri sul Mare (Salerno, IT) next September. Please, don't hesitate to ask any eventual editing of this message so as to make it suitable for connectionist news. Thank you in advance. Best regards, -- Marco Gori. ================================================================================================== Marco Gori Email: marco@mcculloch.ing.unifi.it WWW: http://www-dsi.ing.unifi.it/neural Universita' di Siena Universita' di Firenze V. Roma, 56 - Siena (Italy) V. S. Marta, 3 - 50139 Firenze (Italy) Voice: +39 577 26-36-04; Fax: +39 577 26-36-02 Voice: +39 55 479-6265; Fax: +39 55 479-6363 ================================================================================================== ================================ CAIANIELLO SUMMER SCHOOL on Adaptive Processing of Sequences ================================ Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy) 6-14 September 1997 Directors C.L. Giles and M. Gori Lectures -------------------------------------------------------------------------- C.L. Giles (NEC, USA) M. Gori (Siena Univ. IT) A.C. Tsoi (Wollongong Univ. Aus) P. Baldi (Caltech, USA) Y. Bengio (Montreal Univ. CA) P. Frasconi (Florence Univ. IT) H. Bourlard (IDIAP, CH) H. Siegelmann (Technion Univ. Israel) P. Gallinari (Curie Univ. FR) Z. Ghahramani (Toronto Univ. CA) B.A. Pearlmutter (Salk Ins., USA) E. Wan (Oregon Inst. USA) M. Mozer (Colorado Univ. USA) A. Sperduti (Pisa Univ. IT) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Objectives This summer school is intended to provide a unified view of different techniques for processing temporal information that rely hardly on learning. The topics of the school include architectures (e.g., recurrent networks, Markovian models), optimization algorithms (e.g., gradient-based, EM-based), theoretical results, integration with symbolic systems, and applications (control, speech recognition, time series analysis) related to sequence processing tasks. Sponsors AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) CNR (Italian Scientific Research Council) IEEE Neural Networks Council (Italian RIG) IIASS (International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies) SIREN (Italian Neural Networks Society) University of Salerno University of Siena General Information This is the second Summer School dedicated to the memory of Prof. E.R. Caianiello. Prof. M. Marinaro (Univ. of Salerno and IIASS) and Prof. M. Jordan (MIT, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) are the organizers and advisors of this cycle of schools. The first school was organized last year in Erice (Italy) on graphical models by M. Jordan and D. Heckerman. People wishing to attend the school should send an e-mail to Prof. Marco Gori (marco@mcculloch.ing.unifi.it) and then send the written application to: Prof. Maria Marinaro - IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello" via Pellegrino, 19 - 84019 Vietri sul Mare (SA) Italy, Tel: +39 89 761167 - Fax: +39 89 761189 They should specify: 1) date and place of birth together with present nationality; 2) degree and other academic qualifications; 3) present position and place work. Young researchers with little experience should include a letter of recommendation from the head of their research group or from a senior scientist, active in the field. The total fee, which includes full board and lodging (arranged by the school), is $1000 US. Thanks to the generosity of the sponsoring Institutions, partial support can be granted to some deserving students who need financial help. Requests to this effect must be specified and justified in the application letter. Closing date for application: June 15th, 1997 More information can be found at http://www.ing.unisi.it/DII/research/neural/SUMMER_SCHOOL From jbower@bbb.caltech.edu Tue Mar 25 20:57:35 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA06626 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:24 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28991 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:22 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa01778; 25 Mar 97 15:23:19 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01776; 25 Mar 97 15:07:05 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05399; 25 Mar 97 15:06:47 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02881; 25 Mar 97 11:47:27 EST Received: from smaug-gw.caltech.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa15065; 25 Mar 97 11:46:31 EST Received: from bbb.caltech.edu (smaug.bbb.caltech.edu) by gateway.bbb.caltech.edu (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA25887; Tue, 25 Mar 97 08:57:40 PST Received: from [131.215.137.89] (jimmac.bbb.caltech.edu) by bbb.caltech.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA11985; Tue, 25 Mar 97 08:58:03 PST Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 08:48:27 -0800 To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu From: "James M. Bower" Subject: Journal of Computational Neuroscience The Journal of Computational Neuroscience ============================================================== Volume 4, Issue 1, 1997 How Neural Interactions Form Neural Responses in the Salamander Retina; Jeff Teeters, Adam Jacobs and Frank Werblin 5 Flexibility and Repeatability of Finger Movements During Typing: Analysis of Multiple Degrees of Freedom; John F. Soechting and Martha Flanders 29 The Calculation of Frequency-Shift Functions for Chains of Coupled Oscillators, with Application to a Network Model of the Lamprey Locomotor Pattern Generator; Thelma L. Williams and Graham Bowtell 47 Traveling Waves and the Processing of Weakly Tuned Inputs in a Cortical Network Module; Rani Ben-Yishai, David Hansel and Haim Sompolinsky 57 Learning Navigational Maps Through Potentiation and Modulation of Hippocampal Place Cells; Wulfram Gerstner and L.F. Abbott 79 ============================================================== Volume 4, Issue 2, 1997 Oscillatory Mechanisms in Pairs of Neurons Connected with Fast Inhibitory Synapses; Peter F. Rowat and Allen I. Selverston 103 Synchronous Bursting Can Arise from Mutual Excitation, Even When Individual Cells are not Endogenous Bursters; Peter F. Rowat and Allen I. Selverston 129 Simulation of Gamma Rhythms in Networks of Interneurons and Pyramidal Cells; Roger D. Traub, John G.R. Jeffreys and Miles A. Whittington 141 How Does the Crayfish Swimmeret System Work? Insights from Nearest-Neighbor Coupled Oscillator Models; Frances K. Skinner, Nancy Kopell and Brian Mulloney 151 The Role of Axonal Delay in the Synchronization of Networks of Coupled Cortical Oscillators; S.M. Crook, G.B. Ermentrout, M.C. Vanier and J.M. Bower 161 The Role of Inhibition in an Associative Memory Model of the Olfactory Bulb; Ofer Hendin, David Horn and Misha V. Tsodyks 173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Subscription and other information about the Journal of Computational Neuroscience is available from: http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/JCNS *************************************** James M. Bower Division of Biology Mail code: 216-76 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 (818) 395-6817 (818) 795-2088 FAX WWW addresses for: laboratory http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/bowerlab GENESIS: http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/GENESIS science education reform http://www.caltech.edu/~capsi J. Computational Neuroscience http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/JCNS/ CNS*97 meeting http://www.bbb.caltech.edu/cns97/cns97.html From omlinc@cs.rpi.edu Tue Mar 25 20:57:41 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA06629 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:27 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28993 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:24 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa01790; 25 Mar 97 15:35:51 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01780; 25 Mar 97 15:07:58 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05405; 25 Mar 97 15:07:14 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02822; 25 Mar 97 11:44:28 EST Received: from barney.cs.rpi.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa11539; 25 Mar 97 11:44:13 EST Received: from colossus.cs.rpi.edu (omlinc@colossus.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.1.9]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA21808 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: C Omlin Received: (from omlinc@localhost) by colossus.cs.rpi.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA20047 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:41:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:41:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199703251641.LAA20047@colossus.cs.rpi.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: comment on recent paper by Maas and Orponen In their recent paper "On the Effect of Analog Noise in Discrete-Time Analog Computations" Wolfgang Maas and Pekka Orponen discuss the stable encoding of deterministic finite-state automata in recurrent neural networks with sigmoidal discriminant functions. This problem has previously been discussed in the literature: P. Frasconi, M. Gori, M. Maggini, G. Soda, "A Unified Approach for Integrating Explicit Knowledge and Learning by Example in Recurrent Networks", IJCNN'91 Proceedings, Vol. 1, p. 811, 1991. P. Frasconi, M. Gori, M. Maggini, G. Soda, "Unified Integration of Explicit Rules and Learning by Example in Recurrent Networks", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 6, No, 6, 1994. P. Frasconi, M. Gori, G. Soda, "Injecting Nondeterministic Finite State Automata into Recurrent Networks", Technical Report, Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita di Firenze, Italy, 1993. P. Frasconi, M. Gori, M. Maggini, G. Soda, "Representation of Finite State Automata in Recurrent Radial Basis Function Networks", Machine Learning, Vol. 23, No. 1. p. 5-32, 1996. C.W. Omlin, C.L. Giles, "Stable Encoding of Large Finite-State Automata in Recurrent Neural Networks with Sigmoid Discriminants" Neural Computation, Vol. 8, No. 7, p. 675-696, 1996. (This paper discusses scaling issues for neural DFA encodings.) C.W. Omlin, C.L. Giles, "Constructing Deterministic Finite-State Automata in Recurrent Neural Networks", Journal of the ACM, Vol. 43, No. 6, p. 937-972, 1996. (This paper discusses the theoretical foundations for encoding DFAs in second-order recurrent neural networks, and also shows that encodings can be made stable in the presence of noise. It also contains a table summarizing various encoding methods and the required resources (neurons/weights), and restrictions on weight values and fan-in/out.) Best regards, Christian Omlin ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christian W. Omlin, Ph.D. Phone (518) 273-0504 Adaptive Computing Technologies E-mail: omlinc@cs.rpi.edu 201 River Street, Suite 37 Troy, NY 12180 URL: http://www.neci.nj.nec.com/homepages/omlin/omlin.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- From Leslie.Smith@ee.ed.ac.uk Tue Mar 25 20:57:42 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA06631 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:28 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28995 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:27 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab01790; 25 Mar 97 15:36:38 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab01780; 25 Mar 97 15:08:04 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05410; 25 Mar 97 15:07:23 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29498; 25 Mar 97 8:59:44 EST Received: from [129.215.80.253] by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa14070; 25 Mar 97 8:59:27 EST Received: from forbes.ee.ed.ac.uk (lss@forbes [129.215.192.103]) by postbox.ee.ed.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA16453 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:54:43 GMT From: Leslie S Smith X-At: Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh Received: (from lss@localhost) by forbes.ee.ed.ac.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA20318 for Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:54:41 GMT Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:54:41 GMT Message-Id: <199703251354.NAA20318@forbes.ee.ed.ac.uk> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems: final CFP EWNS: 1st European Workshop on Neuromorphic Systems --------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers --------------------- 29-31 August 1997, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland Organisers: Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience University of Stirling and Department of Electrical Engineering University of Edinburgh Neuromorphic systems are implementations in silicon of sensory and neural systems whose architecture and design are based on neurobiology. This growing area proffers exciting possibilities such as sensory systems which can compete with human senses and pattern recognition systems that can run in real-time. The area is at the intersection of many disciplines: neurophysiology, computer science and electrical engineering. Papers are requested in the following areas: Design issues in sensorineural neuromorphic systems: auditory, visual, olfactory, proprioception, sensorimotor systems. Designs for silicon implementations of neural systems. Papers not exceeding 8 A4 pages are requested: please send 3 copies. These should be sent to Dr. Leslie Smith Department of Computing Science University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland email: lss@cs.stir.ac.uk FAX (44) 1786 464551 We also propose to hold a number of discussion sessions on some of the questions above. Short position papers (less than 4 pages) are requested. Key Dates --------- Submission Deadline: Mon 7th April 1997 Notification of Acceptance: June 2nd 1997 World Scientific will be publishing a book based on this conference. Applications are invited from UK Ph.D. students to cover the cost of travel and registration. Please contact Dr. Leslie Smith. Full information is on the WWW at http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/Neuromorphic/Info1.html ___________________________________________________________________________ Registration form: Full name Full postal address Telephone number Fax number email address Registration fee: UKpounds 100 _____ (includes lunches and coffees and copy of proceedings) Conference Dinner UKpounds 25 _____ Accommodation required: 28 August UKpounds 17.02 _____ 29 August UKpounds 17.02 _____ 30 August UKpounds 17.02 _____ 31 August UKpounds 17.02 _____ 1 September UKpounds 17.02 _____ Total _____ Cheques should be made payable to the University of Stirling. Eurocheques are acceptable. Unfortunately the University does not take credit cards. Please send form with remittance to Dr. Leslie Smith, Department of Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA Scotland, UK. From dyyeung@cs.ust.hk Tue Mar 25 20:57:43 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id UAA06633 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:29 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA28997 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:57:28 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ac01790; 25 Mar 97 15:37:11 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ac01780; 25 Mar 97 15:08:05 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05417; 25 Mar 97 15:07:36 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25964; 25 Mar 97 3:25:48 EST Received: from cssu46.cs.ust.hk by CS.CMU.EDU id aa03552; 25 Mar 97 3:24:19 EST Received: from cssu35.cs.ust.hk (dyyeung@cssu35.cs.ust.hk [143.89.40.35]) by cssu46.cs.ust.hk (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA18434 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:16:40 +0800 (HKT) From: Dit-Yan Yeung Received: (from dyyeung@localhost) by cssu35.cs.ust.hk (8.8.3/8.7.3) id QAA06075 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:16:37 +0800 (HKT) Message-Id: <199703250816.QAA06075@cssu35.cs.ust.hk> Subject: TANC-97 Call for Participation To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:16:36 +0800 (HKT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Call for Participation TANC-97 Hong Kong International Workshop on Theoretical Aspects of Neural Computation: A Multidisciplinary Perspective May 26-28, 1997 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Over the past decade or so, neural computation has emerged as a research area with active involvement by researchers from a number of different disciplines, including computer science, engineering, mathematics, neurobiology, physics, and statistics. Interdisciplinary collaboration and exchange of ideas has often led us to address research issues in this area from different perspectives. Consequently, some interesting new paradigms and results have become available to the field and have contributed significantly to the strengthening of its theoretical foundations. This workshop, to be held in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology located at the scenic Clear Water Bay, is intended to bring together researchers from different disciplines to review the current status of neural computation research. In particular, theoretical studies of the following themes will be given special emphasis: NEUROSCIENCE, COMPUTATIONAL AND MATHEMATICAL, and STATISTICAL PHYSICS. While the focus of this workshop is on theoretical aspects, the impact of recent theoretical advances to applications and the novel application of theoretical results to real-world problems will also be covered. Moreover, as an important objective of the workshop, future research directions and topics that have strong interdisciplinary nature will be explored. The workshop papers will be published as a book by Springer-Verlag after the workshop. Technical Program ----------------- The workshop will feature several keynote presentations and invited papers by leading researchers: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Shun-ichi Amari (RIKEN, Japan), Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University, Israel). INVITED SPEAKERS: Chris van den Broeck (LUC, Belgium), Peter Dayan (MIT, USA), Aike Guo (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), John Hertz (NORDITA, Denmark), Jenq-Neng Hwang (University of Washington, USA), Jong-Hoon Oh (POSTECH, Korea), Manfred Opper (Wuerzburg, Germany), Juergen Schmidhuber (IDSIA, Switzerland), Sebastian Seung (Bell Labs, USA), Sara Solla (AT&T Research, USA), Lei Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong). In addition to keynote and invited papers, there will also be a number of submitted papers. All oral and poster presentations will be scheduled in a single track with no parallel sessions to facilitate interdisciplinary interaction. To facilitate further discussions with other workshop participants, authors of oral presentations will be highly encouraged to put up posters in the poster session and be present there. A detailed technical program is attached separately. Student Posters --------------- To encourage research postgraduate students to participate in this workshop and to give informal presentations of their ongoing research, some bulletin boards will be reserved for student posters during the poster session. To be considered for a poster presentation, a summary of no more than 500 words should be submitted to the workshop secretariat by April 15. Electronic submissions are acceptable. Notification of acceptance will be sent by electronic mail by the end of April. Registration immediately after receiving the notification letter will receive the same discount rate as other student participants who register on or before April 15. Social Functions ---------------- A reception for all workshop participants will be held in the morning of day 1 (May 26). The workshop banquet will be held in the evening of day 2 (May 27). In addition, a post-workshop excursion will be arranged on day 4 (May 29). Tickets for the excursion will be sold separately. Registration ------------ Please complete the registration form attached and mail it back with payment to: TANC-97 Secretariat Department of Physics Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong Fax: +852-2358-1652; E-mail: tanc97@usthk.ust.hk WWW: http://www.cs.ust.hk/conferences/TANC97 Registration before April 15 can enjoy the discount rates. Useful Information for Overseas Participants -------------------------------------------- [Transportation] The most convenient way to come to the university campus from the Hong Kong International Airport is by taxi. You may take a taxi outside the arrival hall of the airport. The journey takes about half an hour and costs about HK$100. Ask the taxi driver to stop at the main extrance, and request the guard to direct the taxi to the Visitor Centre. [Accommodation] The Visitor Centre of the university is equipped with standard hotel facilities. [Climate] In late May, the temperature is typically around 27C (81F) and the relative humidity is about 80%, with occasional mist and rain showers. Have sweaters and showerproof jackets ready. [Visa] In view of the political transition in 1997, you are advised to check with your local British embassy about your visa. Normally, visitors from most countries can enter Hong Kong without a visa for periods varying from seven days to one year, depending on their nationalities. [Exchange rate] One US dollar is roughly equal to 7.8 Hong Kong dollars. [Hong Kong 1997] This is a great opportunity to visit Hong Kong as the workshop will be held shortly before Hong Kong becomes a Special Administrative Region of China starting from July 1, 1997. [More information] For more information about Hong Kong, you may visit the Web site of the Hong Kong Tourist Association (http://www.hkta.org/). Also, remember to pick up a tourist package before you exit the passport control in the Hong Kong International Airport. Organizing Committee -------------------- Kwok-Ping Chan (University of Hong Kong), Lai-Wan Chan (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Irwin King (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Zhaoping Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Franklin Shin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Michael K.Y. Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) [Chairman], and Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TANC-97 WORKSHOP REGISTRATION FORM ******************************************************************************** Section A (for all participants) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Name: _________________________________________________________ Title: _____ (surname/family name/last name) (given name/first name) Professional affiliation: ___________________________________________________ Mailing address: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ E-mail address: _____________________ Fax number: _________________________ Registration fee: ___________________ Before 15 April 1997 After 15 April 1997 ++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++ Regular HK$1,200 HK$1,400 Student HK$ 500 HK$ 600 (Regular registration includes banquet and post-workshop proceedings.) ******************************************************************************** Section B (for paper presenters only) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you have special equipment needs other than an overhead projector for your presentation, please provide details below: ******************************************************************************** Section C (for overseas participants only) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Number of accompanying persons (besides you): _________ Room reservation in the Visitor Centre of HKUST: __ Single (HK$410 per night for 1 person) __ Double (HK$550 per night for 2 persons) __ Apartment (HK$760 per night for 4 persons) Check-in date: _________ Check-out date: ________ Number of nights: _____ X Room charge per night: _____ = Total charge: _____ ******************************************************************************** Please mail the completed registration form with payment to: TANC-97 Secretariat Department of Physics Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong Payment must be made by money order or bank draft in Hong Kong currency drawable from banks in Hong Kong. Money orders and bank drafts must be made payable to "Hong Kong University of Science and Technology". Receipts will be available for collection at the workshop. From pekka@dcs.ed.ac.uk Wed Mar 26 15:29:09 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA12417 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:29:03 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11376 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:28:57 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa03738; 26 Mar 97 11:30:11 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03736; 26 Mar 97 11:09:30 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06435; 26 Mar 97 11:08:45 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25696; 26 Mar 97 6:20:19 EST Received: from rainich.dcs.ed.ac.uk by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa20533; 26 Mar 97 6:19:53 EST Received: from papa.dcs.ed.ac.uk by rainich.dcs.ed.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:19:24 +0000 Received: from localhost by papa.dcs.ed.ac.uk; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:19:15 GMT Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:19:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Pekka Orponen Reply-To: Pekka Orponen To: C Omlin cc: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Re: comment on recent paper by Maas and Orponen In-Reply-To: <199703251641.LAA20047@colossus.cs.rpi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear connectionists: In a recent message to this list, C. Omlin mentions a result of ours about implementing finite state automata in sigmoidal neural nets, and lists a number of related papers. We are familiar with the work listed, at least the journal papers, and it is cited in our paper (at least in the full version; some references may have been omitted for lack of space from the NIPS version). The difference is that we wanted a _noise-tolerant_ simulation of automata in sigmoidal _first-order_ networks. The result is really simple, and is included in the paper only because we could not find a source for it in the literature. As far as I recall, the simulations of Frasconi et al. don't pay attention to the noise tolerance requirement, and those of Omlin et al. use higher-order networks. Regards, Pekka Orponen From charles.bruce@yale.edu Thu Mar 27 00:44:18 1997 Received: from lucy.cs.wisc.edu (lucy.cs.wisc.edu [128.105.2.11]) by sea.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA20840 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:44:14 -0600 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA19068 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:44:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703270644.AAA19068@lucy.cs.wisc.edu> Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04548; 27 Mar 97 0:11:11 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04546; 27 Mar 97 0:01:07 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06965; 26 Mar 97 23:59:43 EST To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Postdoctoral Position from 3/1/97 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:59:52 -0500 From: Charles Bruce Postdoctoral Position Integrative Neurophysiology A postdoctoral NIMH fellowship is available immediately to study the neurophysiological basis of sensorimotor and cognitive processing in monkey neocortex. Cortical organization and function are studied using single- and multiple-neuron recording, microstimulation and reversible inactivation of small cortical regions, interneuronal correlations of spike trains, ect. applied during performance of sensorimotor and mnemonic tasks. The frontal eye field, supplementary eye field, and related cortical association areas are investigated with the ultimate purpose of developing realistic computational model of the network of cortical areas that underlie sensory, motor, and cognitive integration. Experience in neurophysiological, computational, or behavioral neuroscience is desired. US citizenship or permanent resident status required for NIMH fellowships. Send CV and names of two references to: Charles Bruce, Ph.D. Section of Neurobiology Yale University School of Medicine 333 Cedar St Rm 303C SHM PO Box 208001 New Haven, CT 06520-8001 Phone: (203) 737-2727 Fax: (203) 785-5263 Email: charles.bruce@yale.edu http://info.med.yale.edu/neurobio/bruce/bruce.html