From orponen@math.jyu.fi Sun Dec 1 12:58:07 1996 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 MAA23599 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:57:43 -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 MAA24191 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:57:41 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa25953; 1 Dec 96 12:36:59 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa25951; 1 Dec 96 12:28:00 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20964; 1 Dec 96 12:27:30 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26002; 1 Dec 96 7:11:43 EST Received: from tarzan.math.jyu.fi by RI.CMU.EDU id aa29254; 1 Dec 96 7:11:21 EST Received: by tarzan.math.jyu.fi (1.37.109.18/16.2) id AA231392163; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:09:23 +0200 X-Charset: ISO_8859-1 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 14:09:22 +0200 (EET) From: Pekka Orponen To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Cc: mcasey@volen.brandeis.edu, maass@igi.tu-graz.ac.at Subject: Re: analog noise In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Connectionists: Sorry to waste the bandwidth, but I think the facts are still not straight. On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Mike Casey wrote: > > Regarding the RNN+noise implying only finite state machine power result, I > completely agree that their result is a nice extension of the corollary > that I proved The readers are welcome to look up the papers and compare our "nice" extension" to Dr. Casey's proof -- or come see our poster at NIPS. (We actually obtained our result before seeing Dr. Casey's paper, but that is beside the point.) > they failed to mention that I had already > proved something very similar. This is true, and an unfortunate omission from our part. While we do discuss Dr. Casey's paper and point out the limitations of the noise model he considers, I only now realize that we failed to include an explicit statement to the effect that "Casey proved an analogous result in his model". I can assure that this omission was not intentional, but was caused by our finding out about Dr. Casey's work only after completing the first version of our paper, and thus adding the technical comparisons to an already existing text. To us it was so clear _what_ Dr. Casey's result was that we forgot to mention that explicitly. I suppose this one sentence would have set the record straight and saved us all from this discussion. > Their "clipped" Gaussian noise is a special > case of bounded noise with arbitrary distribution (Bowen's pseudo-orbit > formalism), so there's no sense in which they "relaxed" the definition of > analog noise. Well, the "clipped" Gaussian noise is bounded because the state space is. It is not technically quite clear that large noise levels could not be used in some devious way in our setting, but this is a minor issue. Also, if I read Dr. Casey's paper correctly, he assumes that the noise level is nonzero everywhere within an \epsilon radius of the correct state, an assumption that we do not need. But these are little technical points that probably could be changed also in his proof. > wouldn't lead to anything interesting). Finally, in section 4 of their > paper where they concretely discuss RNNs performing computations, they > assume that the noise is bounded and that the computation is done with > perfect reliability (which were precisely the assumptions that I used > which they have spent so much time discrediting in other parts of the > paper). This is not quite fair, because in this section we do not _assume_ that the computation can be performed with 100% reliablity, but _prove_ that it can be, in the case that one only wants to simulate finite state automata, and the noise is bounded at some sufficiently low level. (This is actually an embarrassingly simple result, which we just didn't find in the literature for the basic BSB network model we consider.) The computational upper bound result, which is more significant, shows that even if we don't assume 100% reliability, we still cannot do more than finite automata. I will try to keep offline from now; see you at NIPS. -- Pekka Orponen From burkhard@zinfandel.cse.ogi.edu Sun Dec 1 21:08:18 1996 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 VAA29152 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:08:13 -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 VAA28235 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:08:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa26598; 1 Dec 96 20:37:24 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26596; 1 Dec 96 20:27:04 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21161; 1 Dec 96 20:26:53 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06714; 1 Dec 96 16:04:43 EST Received: from cse.ogi.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa00447; 1 Dec 96 16:04:02 EST Received: from zinfandel.cse.ogi.edu by church.cse.ogi.edu with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0vUJ3P-000032C; Sun, 1 Dec 96 13:03 PST Received: by zinfandel.cse.ogi.edu (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA13119; Sun, 1 Dec 96 13:03:58 -0800 Date: Sun, 1 Dec 96 13:03:58 -0800 From: Annette Burkhardt Message-Id: <9612012103.AA13119@zinfandel.cse.ogi.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Jobs in Financial Analysis at Nonlinear Prediction Systems Cc: burkhard@zinfandel.cse.ogi.edu NONLINEAR PREDICTION SYSTEMS Portland, Oregon RESEARCH POSITIONS IN NONLINEAR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL MARKETS Nonlinear Prediction Systems (NPS) is a small firm based in Portland, Oregon doing research in forecasting, trading, statistical arbitrage, and global risk management for the world's major financial markets. 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From langley@mail.RTNA.DaimlerBenz.COM Mon Dec 2 04:57:56 1996 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 EAA01979 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 04:57:50 -0600 Received: from cs.uwa.oz.au (bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.11]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA01592 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 04:57:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from (warabi.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.13]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id QAA16756; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 16:26:07 +0800 Message-Id: <199612020826.QAA16756@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: Pat Langley To: reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: 1997 Cognitive Science Conference Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:22:54 -0800 (PST) Preliminary Call for Papers Nineteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society August 7-10, 1997 Stanford University The annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society brings together researchers from many fields -- including artificial intelligence, education, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology -- who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the mind. 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From S.Renals@dcs.shef.ac.uk Mon Dec 2 20:12:09 1996 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 UAA16848 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:12:03 -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 UAA16298 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:12:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa27926; 2 Dec 96 19:25:01 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27924; 2 Dec 96 19:06:08 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21809; 2 Dec 96 19:05:07 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19545; 2 Dec 96 7:33:30 EST Received: from gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk by CS.CMU.EDU id aa03777; 2 Dec 96 7:32:56 EST Received: from elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk by gw.dcs.shef.ac.uk (4.1/DCS2.0) id AA04299; Mon, 2 Dec 96 11:41:01 GMT Received: by elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk (8.6.9/SMI-4.1) id LAA01116; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:41:05 GMT Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 11:41:05 GMT Message-Id: <199612021141.LAA01116@elvis.dcs.shef.ac.uk> From: Steve Renals To: salt@essex.ac.uk, elsnet-list@let.ruu.nl, Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, ai+ai-postdoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Postdoc: Speech Recognition at Sheffield University (UK) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.69) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII University of Sheffield Department of Computer Science Research Associate in Continuous Speech Recognition (Ref: R1039) Applications are invited for the above post which is tenable for three years from February 1997. The post is part of an EU Long Term Research project (THISL) that will develop a system for the indexing and retrieval of information from large speech recordings and TV/radio broadcasts. The main emphasis of the work will be developing hybrid connectionist/HMM algorithms and systems for very large vocabulary broadcast speech recognition. Candidates for the post will be expected to hold a PhD in a relevant discipline (e.g. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics), or to have acquired equivalent experience. The successful candidate will probably have had research experience in the area of speech recognition, neural computing or language modelling. Salary will be in the range \pounds 14,317 to \pounds 19,948. Closing date for applications: 7 January 1997. For further information about the post contact Steve Renals or on the web, http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/groups/spandh/projects/thisl.html Application forms are available are available from the Director of Human Resources, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK, tel: +44-114-279-9800, email: jobs@sheffield.ac.uk, citing reference R1039. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Renals mailto:s.renals@dcs.shef.ac.uk Dept of Computer Science http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~sjr/ Sheffield University phone: +44-114-222-1836 Regent Court fax: +44-114-278-0972 211 Portobello Street Sheffield S1 4DP UK From kruschke@croton.psych.indiana.edu Mon Dec 2 20:12:11 1996 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 UAA16851 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:12:05 -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 UAA16300 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:12:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa27933; 2 Dec 96 19:33:58 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27928; 2 Dec 96 19:06:58 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa21817; 2 Dec 96 19:05:33 EST Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa24875; 2 Dec 96 13:01:22 EST Received: from roatan.ucs.indiana.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa05129; 2 Dec 96 13:01:01 EST Received: from croton.psych.indiana.edu (croton.psych.indiana.edu [129.79.164.67]) by roatan.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3/1.12IUPO) with SMTP id NAA12715 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:00:58 -0500 (EST) Received: by croton.psych.indiana.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/07May94-0233PM) id AA01457; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:04:02 -0500 From: John Kruschke Message-Id: <9612021804.AA01457@croton.psych.indiana.edu> Subject: TR Announcement: Rules and exemplars in category learning To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:04:02 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rules and Exemplars in Category Learning Michael A. Erickson and John K. Kruschke Indiana University, Bloomington Psychological theories of categorization have generally focused on either rule- or exemplar-based explanations of categorization. We present two experiments that show evidence of both rule induction and exemplar encoding, and we present a connectionist model (ATRIUM) that specifies a mechanism for combining rule- and exemplar-based representation. In both experiments participants learned to classify items, most of which followed a simple rule although there were a few, frequently occurring exceptions. Experiment 1 examined how people extrapolate beyond the range of trained instances. Experiment 2 examined the effects of instance frequency on generalization to novel cases. We found that categorization behavior was well described by the model, in which exemplar representation is used for both rule and exception processing. A key element in correctly modeling categorization in tasks such as these was capturing the interaction between the rule- and exemplar-based representational structures using shifts of attention between rules and exemplars. This report is also available for electronic retrieval (uncompressed PostScript, 589 Kbytes) from http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/ek96_abstract.html A very limited number of paper copies are also available; request Cognitive Science Technical Report #183, by Erickson & Kruschke, from iucogsci@indiana.edu -- John K. Kruschke office: (812) 855-3192 Dept. of Psychology fax: (812) 855-4691 Indiana University http://www.indiana.edu/~kruschke/ Bloomington, IN 47405-1301 kruschke@indiana.edu From nq6@columbia.edu Tue Dec 3 22:28:45 1996 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 WAA07222 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 22:28:35 -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 WAA07150 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 22:28:33 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa29357; 3 Dec 96 22:12:59 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29355; 3 Dec 96 21:50:47 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22929; 3 Dec 96 21:50:25 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01429; 3 Dec 96 21:12:48 EST Received: from labdien.cc.columbia.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa28117; 3 Dec 96 21:11:22 EST Received: (from nq6@localhost) by labdien.cc.columbia.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3) id VAA18249; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:11:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 21:11:20 -0500 (EST) From: Ning Qian Message-Id: <199612040211.VAA18249@labdien.cc.columbia.edu> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: stereo paper available Reply-to: nq6@columbia.edu The following paper (and some related ones, see below) on stereo vision can be downloaded from the web site: http://brahms.cpmc.columbia.edu/ Physiological Computation of Binocular Disparity Ning Qian and Yudong Zhu (to appear in Vision Research) We previously proposed a physiologically realistic model for stereo vision based on the quantitative binocular receptive field profiles mapped by Freeman and coworkers. Here we present several new results about the model that shed light on the physiological processes involved in disparity computation. First, we show that our model can be extended to a much more general class of receptive field profiles than the commonly used Gabor functions. Second, we demonstrate that there is, however, an advantage of using the Gabor filters: Similar to our perception, the stereo algorithm with the Gabor filters has a small bias towards zero disparity. Third, we prove that the complex cells as described by Freeman et al.\ compute disparity by effectively summing up two related cross products between the band-pass filtered left and right retinal image patches. This operation is related to cross-correlation but it overcomes some major problems with the standard correlator. Fourth, we demonstrate that as few as two complex cells at each spatial location are sufficient for a reasonable estimation of binocular disparity. Fifth, we find that our model can be significantly improved by considering the fact that complex cell receptive fields are on average larger than those of simple cells. This fact is incorporated into the model by averaging over {\em several} quadrature pairs of simple cells with nearby and overlapping receptive fields to construct a model complex cell. The disparity tuning curve of the resulting complex cell is much more reliable than that constructed from a {\em single} quadrature pair of simple cells used previously, and the computed disparity maps for random dot stereograms with the new algorithm are very similar to human perception, with sharp transitions at disparity boundaries. Finally, we show that under most circumstances our algorithm works equally well with either of the two well-known receptive field models in the literature. Related papers on the same web site: "A Physiological Model for Motion-stereo Integration and a Unified Explanation of Pulfrich-like Phenomena", Ning Qian and Richard A. Andersen, Vision Research, (in press). "Binocular Receptive Field Profiles, Disparity Tuning and Characteristic Disparity" Yudong Zhu and Ning Qian, Neural Computation, 1996, 8:1647-1677. "Computing Stereo Disparity and Motion with Known Binocular Cell Properties", Ning Qian, Neural Computation, 1994, 6:390-404. From Dave_Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU Tue Dec 3 22:28:46 1996 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 WAA07224 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 22:28:35 -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 WAA07152 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 1996 22:28:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa29395; 3 Dec 96 22:21:45 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa29360; 3 Dec 96 21:51:40 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22937; 3 Dec 96 21:51:01 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01717; 3 Dec 96 21:35:18 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa22820; 3 Dec 96 21:34:30 EST To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Reply-To: Dave_Touretzky@cs.cmu.edu Subject: CNBC graduate training program Date: Tue, 03 Dec 96 21:34:22 EST Message-ID: <22818.849666862@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU> From: Dave_Touretzky@DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU Graduate Training with the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition offers interdisciplinary Ph.D. and postdoctoral training programs operated jointly with affiliated programs at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh Biological Sciences Mathematics Computer Science Neurobiology Psychology Neuroscience Robotics Psychology The Center is dedicated to the study of the neural basis of cognitive processes including learning and memory, language and thought, perception, attention, and planning; to the study of the development of the neural substrate of these processes; to the study of disorders of these processes and their underlying neuropathology; and to the promotion of applications of the results of these studies to artificial intelligence, robotics, and medicine. 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Fax: (412) 268-5060 email: cnbc-admissions@cnbc.cmu.edu This material is also available on our web site at http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu The CNBC training faculty includes: German Barrionuevo (Pitt Neuroscience): LTP in hippocampal slice Marlene Behrmann (CMU Psychology): spatial representations in parietal cortex Pat Carpenter (CMU Psychology): mental imagery, language, and problem solving Jonathan Cohen (CMU Psychology): schizophrenia; dopamine and attention Carol Colby (Pitt Neuroscience): spatial reps. in primate parietal cortex Bard Ermentrout (Pitt Mathematics): oscillations in neural systems Julie Fiez (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of language John Horn (Pitt Neurobiology): synaptic learning in invertebrates Allen Humphrey (Pitt Neurobiology): motion processing in primary visual cortex Marcel Just (CMU Psychology): visual thinking, language comprehension Eric Klann (Pitt Neuroscience): hippocampal LTP and LTD Alan Koretsky (CMU Biological Sciences): new fMRI techniques for brain imaging Tai Sing Lee (CMU Comp. Sci.): primate visual cortex; computer vision David Lewis (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of frontal cortex James McClelland (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of cognition Carl Olson (CNBC): spatial representations in primate frontal cortex David Plaut (CMU Psychology): connectionist models of reading Michael Pogue-Geile (Pitt Psychology): development of schizophrenia John Pollock (CMU Biological Sci.): neurodevelopment of the fly visual system Walter Schneider (Pitt Psychology): fMRI studies of attention and vision Charles Scudder (Pitt Neurobiology): motor learning in cerebellum Susan Sesack (Pitt Neuroscience): anatomy of the dopaminergic system Dan Simons (Pitt Neurobiology): sensory physiology of the cerebral cortex William Skaggs (Pitt Neuroscience): representations in rodent hippocampus David Touretzky (CMU Comp. Sci.): hippocampus, rat navigation, animal learning From riegler@ifi.unizh.ch Wed Dec 4 18:26:59 1996 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 SAA27931 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:26:48 -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 SAA24193 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:26:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa00888; 4 Dec 96 16:22:37 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00886; 4 Dec 96 16:03:17 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23552; 4 Dec 96 16:02:28 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10560; 4 Dec 96 6:09:06 EST Received: from [130.60.48.10] by CS.CMU.EDU id aa24985; 4 Dec 96 6:08:54 EST Received: from ifimac13.ifi.unizh.ch by josef.ifi.unizh.ch with SMTP (PP) id <00581-0@josef.ifi.unizh.ch>; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:45:28 +0100 X-Sender: riegler@josef.ifi.unizh.ch Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:45:15 +0100 From: Alex Riegler Subject: 2nd CFP New Trends in Cog Sci Please forward to colleagues etc. Apologies if you have received this already. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ International Workshop N E W T R E N D S I N C O G N I T I V E S C I E N C E NTCS '97 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ "Does Representation need Reality?" Perspectives from Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Epistemology, and Artificial Life Vienna, Austria, May 13 - 16, 1997 with plenary talks by: Georg Dorffner, Ernst von Glasersfeld, Stevan Harnad, Wolf Singer, and Sverre Sjoelander organized by the Austrian Society of Cognitive Science (ASoCS) =========================================================================== Latest information can be retrieved from the conference WWW-page =========================================================================== P u r p o s e ___________________________________________________________________________ The goal of this single-track conference is to investigate and discuss new approaches and movements in cognitive science in a workshop-like atmosphere. Among the topics which seem to have emerged in the last years are: embodiment of knowledge, system theoretic and computational neuroscience approaches to cognition, dynamics in recurrent neural architectures, evolutionary and artificial life approaches to cognition, and (epistemological) implications for perception and representation, constructivist concepts and the problem of knowledge representation, autopoiesis, implications for epistemology and philosophy (of science). Evidence for a failure of the traditional understanding of neural representation converges from several fields. Neuroscientific results in the last decade have shown that single cell representations with hierarchical processing towards representing units seems not the way the cortex represents environmental entities. Instead, distributed cell ensemble coding has become a popular concept for representation, both in computational and in empirical neuroscience. However, new problems arise from the new concepts. The problem of binding the distributed parts into a uniform percept can be "solved" by introducing synchronization of the member neurons. A deeper (epistemological) problem, however, is created by recurrent architectures within ensembles generating an internal dynamics in the network. The cortical response to an environmental stimulus is no longer dominated by stimulus properties themselves, but to a considerable degree by the internal state of the network. Thus, a clear and stable reference between a representational state (e.g. in a neuron, a Hebbian ensemble, an activation state, etc.) and the environmental state becomes questionable. Already learned experiences and expectancies might have an impact on the neural activity which is as strong as the stimulus itself. Since these internally stored experiences are constantly changing, the notion of (fixed) representations is challenged. At this point, system theory and constructivism, both investigating the interaction between environment and organism at an abstract level, come into the scene and turn out to provide helpful epistemological concepts. The goal of this conference is to discuss these phenomena and their implications for the understanding of representation, semantics, language, cognitive science, and artificial life. Contrary to many conferences in this field, the focus is on interdisciplinary cooperation and on conceptual and epistemological questions, rather than on technical details. We are trying to achieve this by giving more room to discussion and interaction between the participants (e.g., invited comments on papers, distribution of papers to the participants before the conference, etc.). According to the interdisciplinary character of cognitive science, we welcome papers/talks from the fields of artificial life, empirical, cognitive, and computational neuroscience, philosophy (of science), epistemology, anthropology, computer science, psychology, and linguistics. T o p i c s ___________________________________________________________________________ The conference is centered around but not restricted to the following topics: 1. Representation - epistemological concepts and findings from (computational) neuroscience, cognitive science (recurrent neural architectures, top-down processing, etc.), and philosophy; 2. Alternatives to representation - applying constructivism to cognitive systems; 3. Modeling language, communication, and semantics as a dynamical, evolutionary and/or adaptive process; 4. Representation and cognition in artificial life; 5. What is the role of simulation in understanding cognition? I n v i t e d S p e a k e r s ___________________________________________________________________________ Besides submitted papers the conference will also feature plenary talks by invited speakers who are leaders in their fields. The following is a list of invited speakers in alphabetical order: o Georg Dorffner, Univ. of Vienna (A) o Ernst von Glasersfeld, Univ. of Amherst, MA (USA) o Stevan Harnad, Univ. of Southampton (GB) o Rolf Pfeifer, Univ. of Zurich (CH) o Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institut fuer Hirnforschung, Frankfurt (D) o Sverre Sjoelander, Linkoeping University (S) P a p e r S u b m i s s i o n s ___________________________________________________________________________ We invite submissions of scientific papers to any of the 5 topics listed above. The papers will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and accepted according to their scientific content, originality, quality of presentation, and relatedness to the conference topic. Please keep to the following guidelines: Hardcopy submission only, 6-9 pages A4 or USLetter single sided in Times Roman 10-12pt (or equivalent). Please send 4 copies to the organizing committee, see address below. In a first step we are planning to publish the proceedings as Technical Report of the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science. In a second step after rewriting the papers and after a second round of review a major publisher will be approached to publish the best papers in an edited volume. For the final versions of the accepted papers electronic submissions are preferred in one of the following formats: Word, FrameMaker, or Ascii. Detailed formatting information will be given upon notification of acceptance. Submission due January 7, 1997 Notification of acceptance February 28 R e g i s t r a t i o n ___________________________________________________________________________ To register please fill out the registration form at the bottom of this CFP and send it by... o Email to franz-markus.peschl@univie.ac.at, or by o Fax to +43-1-408-8838 (attn. M.Peschl), or by o Mail to Markus Peschl, Dept.for Philosophy of Science (address below) Registration Fee (includes admission to talks, presentations, and proceedings): before April 1st, 1997: Member * 1000 ATS (about 90 US$) Non-Member 1500 ATS (about 135 US$) Student Member ** 400 ATS (about 36 US$) Student Non-Member 1000 ATS (about 90 US$) after April 1st, 1997: Member * 1300 ATS (about 118 US$) Non-Member 1800 ATS (about 163 US$) Student Member ** 500 ATS (about 45 US$) Student Non-Member 1300 ATS (about 118 US$) *) Members of the Austrian Society of Cognitive Science **) Requires proof of valid student ID C o n f e r e n c e S i t e a n d A c c o m o d a t i o n ___________________________________________________________________________ The conference takes place in a small beautiful baroque castle in the suburbs of Vienna; the address is: Schloss Neuwaldegg Waldegghofg. 5 A-1170 Wien Austria Tel: +43-1-485-3605 Fax: +43-1-485-3605-112 It is surrounded by a beautiful forest and a good (international and Viennese gastronomic) infrastructure. On the tram it takes only 20 minutes to the center of Vienna. (Limited) Accommodation is provided by the castle (about 41 US$ per night (single), 30 US$ per night, per person (double) including breakfast). Please contact the telephone number above. You can find more information about Vienna and accommodation at the Vienna Tourist Board or at the Intropa Travel agent Tel: +43-1-5151-242. Further information will be available soon. D e s t i n a t i o n V i e n n a ? ___________________________________________________________________________ Vienna, Austria, can be reached internationally by plane or train. The Vienna Schwechat airport is located about 16 km from the city center. From the airport, the city air-terminal can be reached by bus (ATS 60.- per person) or taxi (about ATS 400). Rail-passengers arrive at one of the main stations which are located almost in the city center. From the air-terminal and the railway stations the congress site and hotels can be reached easily by underground (U-Bahn), tramway, or bus. A detailed description will be given to the participants. In May the climate is mild in Vienna. It is the time when spring is at its climax and everything is blooming. The weather is warm with occasional (rare) showers. The temperature is about 18 to 24 degrees Celsius. More information about Vienna and Austria on the web: Welcome to Vienna Scene Vienna City Wiener Festwochen - Vienna Festival Public Transport in Vienna (subway) Welcome to Austria General information about Austria Austria Annoted S c i e n t i f i c C o m m i t t e e ___________________________________________________________________________ R. Born Univ. of Linz (A) G. Dorffner Univ. of Vienna (A) E. v. Glasersfeld Univ. of Amherst, MA (USA) S. Harnad Univ. of Southampton (GB) M. Peschl Univ. of Vienna (A) A. Riegler Univ. of Zurich (CH) H. Risku Univ. of Skovde (S) S. Sjoelander Linkoeping University (S) A. v. Stein Neuroscience Institute, La Jolla (USA) O r g a n i z i n g C o m m i t t e e ___________________________________________________________________________ M. Peschl Univ. of Vienna (A) A. Riegler Univ. of Zurich (CH) T i m e t a b l e ___________________________________________________________________________ Submission due January 7, 1997 Notification of acceptance February 28 Early registration due April 1 Final papers due April 14 Conference date May 13-16, 1997 S p o n s o r i n g O r g a n i z a t i o n s ___________________________________________________________________________ o Christian Doppler Laboratory for Expert Systems (Vienna University of Technology) o Oesterreichische Forschgungsgemeinschaft o Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Transport and the Arts o City of Vienna A d d i t i o n a l I n f o r m a t i o n ___________________________________________________________________________ For further information on the conference contact: Markus Peschl Dept. for Philosophy of Science University of Vienna Sensengasse 8/10 A-1090 Wien Austria Tel: +43-1-402-7601/41 Fax: +43-1-408-8838 Email: franz-markus.peschl@univie.ac.at General information about the Austrian Society for Cognitive Science can be found on the Society webpage or by contacting Alexander Riegler AILab, Dept. of Computer Science University of Zurich Winterthurerstr. 190 CH-8057 Zurich Switzerland Email: riegler@ifi.unizh.ch R e g i s t r a t i o n f o r m ___________________________________________________________________________ I participate at the Workshop "New Trends in Cognitive Science (NTCS'97)" Full Name ........................................................................ 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M.Peschl), or by o Mail to Markus Peschl, Dept.for Philosophy of Science, Univ. of Vienna, Sensengasse 8/10, A-1090 Wien, Austria From gaudiano@cns.bu.edu Wed Dec 4 18:27:02 1996 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 SAA27933 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:26:51 -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 SAA24195 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:26:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa00942; 4 Dec 96 16:35:38 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00891; 4 Dec 96 16:05:16 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa23566; 4 Dec 96 16:04:39 EST Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19002; 4 Dec 96 13:28:04 EST Received: from [128.197.61.100] by CS.CMU.EDU id aa28270; 4 Dec 96 13:27:33 EST Received: from mattapan.bu.edu by cns.bu.edu (SMI-8.6/BU-11/2/94) id NAA12958; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:26:55 -0500 From: Paolo Gaudiano Received: by mattapan.bu.edu (8.6.13/BU_Client-1.1) id NAA25658; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:26:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:26:55 -0500 Message-Id: <199612041826.NAA25658@mattapan.bu.edu> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: NSF Funding opportunity The following was forwarded to me by Paul Werbos. It is being sent to various newsgroups and mailing lists, so please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies. Paolo Gaudiano ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NSF has just announced a new initiative in Learning and Intelligent Systems, with a first-year funding of about $20 million. The announcement is up on the web site: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/LIS/index.htm The scope of this initiative is not 100% clear from the outside, but the core will involve support of collaborations across major disciplines (e.g. biology, engineering, computer science, psychology, education), hopefully to develop a more unified understanding of learning mechanisms/models/designs/issues applicable to both natural and artificial systems. Neural network models are mentioned, along with several other paradigms, as a tool for understanding and implementing learning in a more unified way across disciplines. Technology development and education will also be a major part of this. The relative emphasis between basic science and software development is still not entirely clear, but both will clearly have a major role. It is clear, however, that there is White House interest. From ndxdendo@rrzn-serv.de Thu Dec 5 16:01:51 1996 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 QAA16789 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:01:38 -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 QAA12166 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:01:34 -0600 (CST) Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa02535; 5 Dec 96 14:13:56 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa02533; 5 Dec 96 13:49:07 EST Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa24358; 5 Dec 96 13:48:33 EST Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa11385; 5 Dec 96 11:50:27 EST Received: from mgate.uni-hannover.de by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa08788; 5 Dec 96 11:49:23 EST Received: from sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de (actually sun1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de) by mgate with SMTP (PP); Thu, 5 Dec 1996 17:45:08 +0100 Received: by sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA10365; Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:39:33 +0100 From: ndxdendo@rrzn-serv.de Message-Id: <199612051539.QAA10365@sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de> Subject: ICOBIP '97 - Conference Announcement To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 16:39:27 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] Content-Type: text /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ | | | INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING | | | | I C O B I P '97 | | | | March 2-4, 1997, Hannover, Germany | | | \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Topics: - Basic Principles of Information Processing ------- - Cellular Systems - Endocrine Systems - Neuronal Systems Speakers: --------- * A. Arkin (Stanford) * M. Berridge (Cambridge) * S. Bezrukov (Bethesda) * D. Bray (Cambridge) * T. Chay (Pittsburgh) * J. Cowan (Chicago) * J. Davidenko (Syracuse) * A. Engel (Frankfurt) * J. Guckenheimer (Ithaca) * J. Keizer (Davis) * T. Kirkwood (Manchester) * G. von Kiedrowski (Bochum) * J. Ross (Stanford) * J. Reinitz (New York) * C. Schofl (Hannover) * T. Sejnowski (San Diego) * N. Spitzer (San Diego) * S. Stojilkovic (Bethesda) * S. Strong (Princeton) * E. Szathmary (Budapest) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Program: -------- Sunday, March 2, 1997 BASIC PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION PROCESSING Chair and Introduction: T. Kirkwood 2:00-2:40 pm G. von Kiedrowski The first informational biomolecules 2:40-3:20 pm E. Szathmary Classification of replicators and the evolution of heredity 3:20-3:50 pm Coffee break 3:50-4:30 pm A. Arkin Computation in genetic networks 4:30-5:10 pm J. Reinitz Connectionist model of development 7:00 pm Welcome Reception - Ice Breaker Bahlsen museum Monday, March 3, 1996 CELLULAR SYSTEMS Chair and Introduction: M.J. Berridge 9:00- 9:40 am T.R. Chay Modeling phase locking, devil's staircase and universality in intracellular calcium spike trains 9:40-10:20 am J. Keizer Modeling of calcium waves 10:20-10:50 am Coffee break 10:50-11:30 am C. Schofl Experimental patterns of calcium oscillations 11:30-12:10 pm J.M. Davidenko Spiral waves: A possible vector for ventricular arrhythmia 12:10-12:50 am S. M. Bezrukov Stochastic resonance in ion channels 1:00 - 2:30 pm Lunch ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS Chair and Introduction: G. Brabant 2:30 - 3:10 pm D. Bray Prinicples of computation in living cells 3:10 - 3:50 pm K. Prank Nonlinear dynamics in endocrine signaling 3:50 - 4:20 pm Coffee break 4:20 - 5:00 pm J. Ross Pattern recognition in kinetic signaling systems 5:00 - 5:40 pm S. Stojilkovic Pulsatile secretion and calcium oscillations in pituitary gonadotrophs 7:00 pm Art and Science - Sprengel museum Tuesday, March 4, 1997 NEURONAL SYSTEMS Chair and Introduction: N.N. 8:30 - 9:10 am J. Guckenheimer Bifurcation analysis of neural models 9:10 - 9:50 am T. J. Sejnowski Timing in cortical information processing 9:50 -10:20 am Coffee break 10:20 -11:00 am N. C. Spitzer Calcium spikes and waves in neuronal development 11:00 -11:40 am J. Cowan Stochastic single neurons 11:40 -12:20 am A. Engel Temporal coding in visual cortex 12:20 -01:00 pm S. Strong Entropy and information in neural spike trains 01:00 -02:00 pm Lunch /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ ICOBIP '97 - Home Page: ----------------------- http://sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de/~ndxdendo/ICOBIP97.html /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Location of the conference: --------------------------- Leibniz-Haus Holzmarkt 5 D-30159 Hannover Germany Phone: +49 511 762-44 49 or +49 511 32 42 28 The Leibniz-Haus is located approximately 3/4 mile (1.2 km) from the Central Railway Station in downtown Hannover. TRAVEL INFORMATION: ------------------- Arrival at Hannover Airport: ---------------------------- Hannover Aiport is directly served from major European cities including Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfort, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Prague, Vienna, Zurich. Ground transportation: ---------------------- Take at taxi from the airport to your hotel or the Leibniz-Haus in downtown Hannover (approx. 40-50 DM). Alternatively, you might take the airport bus (bus # 60) to the Central Railway Station (running every 20 min; ticket 6 Dm/person). From the Railway Station you might take a taxi or use the public transportation to your hotel or the Leibniz-Haus respectively. The subway (lines 3, 7, and 9, direction: Muhlenberg or Empelde) is running from the Central Railway Station ("Hauptbahnhof") to the station "Markthalle" which is located about 1/2 mile (800 m) from the Leibniz-Haus. Further information on public transportation in Hannover might be obtained at: http://www.efa.de/e00.htm (item: Lower Saxony ...) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ REGISTRATION FORM - I C O B I P '9 7 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Please save this file to your local disk and email the completed registration form to: ndxdendo@rrzn-serv.de Additionally to the email, we have to ask you to send a signed hardcopy of the registration form and a valid cheque covering the conference fee to the conference secretariat: ICOBIP '97 - Secretariat OE 6820 Dept. of Clinical Endocrinology Medical School Hannover D-30623 Hannover Germany However, we will take the email registration date as the one determining the registration fee, if we receive the hardcopy registration within the following two weeks. ----------8<--------------BEGIN REGISTRATION FORM -------------8<------------- Surname: _________________________________ First name: ______________ Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms: _________________________________ Institution/ Company: _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________________________________________ Postal Code: _____________________________________________________________ City: _____________________________________________________________ Country: _____________________________________________________________ Phone: _____________________________________________________________ Fax: _____________________________________________________________ E-Mail: _____________________________________________________________ WWW(URL): _____________________________________________________________ (Please tick) Conference Fee Before Before December 31, 1996 February 15, 1997 ___Regular ___DM 350 ___DM 450 ___Student ___DM 200 ___DM 250 (with valid ID only) ** TOTAL AMOUNT DUE: DM _______ All payments must be made in German Mark (DM) Payment by: ----------- ___ cheque made out to ICOBIP '97 - MHH Date/Signature _____________________________________________________ ----------8<----------------END REGISTRATION FORM------------------8<---------- HOTEL RESERVATION Room reservations can be directly made through the WWW-service of the Hannover Congress-Centrum (HCC) - Hotel and Private Room Accomodation Service: http://www.hcc.de/zimmer/welcome_eng.html or by fax or mail: ----------8<--------------ORDER FORM FOR HOTEL ROOMS---------------8<---------- Hannover Congress-Centrum (HCC) Hotel and Private Room Accomodation Service Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1-3 D-30175 Hannover Germany Fax: +49 511 8113 541 Order for Hotel Rooms --------------------- We hereby make the following firm order for accomodation and confirm that we understand to abide by the terms and conditions of booking set out below: _______________________________________________________________________________ | Name | Single | Double | Date of | Date of | Price limit | | | Room | Room | arrival | departure | per person | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | |_______________________|________|________|_________|___________|_____________| | | | | | | | |_______________________|________|________|_________|___________|_____________| | | | | | | | |_______________________|________|________|_________|___________|_____________| | | | | | | | |_______________________|________|________|_________|___________|_____________| |Total number of rooms: | | | | | | | | | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Please tick) Arrival in Hannover by: ___ Airplane ___ Train ___ Car approx. time of arrival if known _________________ Fees (including 15% VAT): Handling fee: DM 10 per room Amendment / cancellation fee: DM 20 per room Payment conditions: Fees arising from a booking effected through our intermediary are payable in any event whether or not the booking is finally taken up by ourselves. 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Prank Dept. of Clinical Endocrinology Medical School Hannover D-30623 Hannover Germany Phone: +49 511 532-6529 or +49 511 532-3827 Fax: +49 511 532-3825 E-Mail: ndxdendo@rrzn-serv.de WWW: http://sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de/~ndxdendo/ICOBIP97.html _______________________________ E N D ____________________________________ From gaudiano@cns.bu.edu Fri Dec 6 03:04:40 1996 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 DAA23127 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 03:04:27 -0600 Received: from cs.uwa.oz.au (bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.11]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA21041 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 03:04:25 -0600 (CST) Received: from (warabi.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.13]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id OAA07221; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 14:59:14 +0800 Message-Id: <199612060659.OAA07221@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: gaudiano@cns.bu.edu (Paolo Gaudiano) To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au Subject: NSF Funding opportunity [connectionists] Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 13:26:55 -0500 The following was forwarded to me by Paul Werbos. It is being sent to various newsgroups and mailing lists, so please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies. Paolo Gaudiano ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NSF has just announced a new initiative in Learning and Intelligent Systems, with a first-year funding of about $20 million. The announcement is up on the web site: http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/LIS/index.htm The scope of this initiative is not 100% clear from the outside, but the core will involve support of collaborations across major disciplines (e.g. biology, engineering, computer science, psychology, education), hopefully to develop a more unified understanding of learning mechanisms/models/designs/issues applicable to both natural and artificial systems. Neural network models are mentioned, along with several other paradigms, as a tool for understanding and implementing learning in a more unified way across disciplines. Technology development and education will also be a major part of this. The relative emphasis between basic science and software development is still not entirely clear, but both will clearly have a major role. It is clear, however, that there is White House interest. From okuno@nuesun.brl.ntt.jp Fri Dec 6 05:45:13 1996 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 FAA23974 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 05:42:53 -0600 Received: from cs.uwa.oz.au (bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.11]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA21823 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 05:42:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from (warabi.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.13]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id PAA07278; Fri, 6 Dec 1996 15:03:49 +0800 Message-Id: <199612060703.PAA07278@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: okuno@nuesun.brl.ntt.jp (Hiroshi G Okuno) To: lhm-all@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de, linguist@tamvm1.tamu.edu, ml@ics.uci.edu, mlnet@csd.abdn.ac.uk, mpsych-l@brownvm.brown.edu, neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu, neuropl@plearn.edu.pl, neuropsych@mailbase.ac.uk, news-announce-conferences@uunet.uu.net, psicopatologia@vortex.ufrgs.br, psy-language@netcom.com, psyche-d@rfmh.org, psyc@pucc.princeton.edu, psycgrad@acadvm1.uottawa.ca, frieze@vms.cis.pitt.edu, quantitative-mri@mailbase.ac.uk, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au, sdaviss@umabnet.ab.umd.edu, sigart@vaxa.isi.edu, slling-l@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu, socio-moral@vortex.ufrgs.br, uai@maillist.cs.orst.edu, vision-list@teleos.com, genetic-programming@cs.stanford.edu, lcq@spc.dcs.tsinghua.edu.cn, psyqnga@herts.ac.uk, brennavm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu, inductive@unb.ca, intcon@phoenix.ee.unsw.edu.au, kdd@gte.com, neur-sci@plearn.edu.pl, spp@umiacs.umd.edu, tanns@cs.unc.edu, Vision-List@TELEOS.COM, Genetic Algs & NNS , neural nets/machine learning , csp-list@saturne.cert.fr, theorem-provers@mc.lcs.mit.edu, ai-medicine@med.Stanford.EDU Subject: Second Call For Papers of IJCAI-97 Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 21:20:03 +0900 (JST) ****************************************************************** * Second Call For Papers * * * * 15th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence * * (IJCAI-97) * * August 23 -- 29, Nagoya, Japan * ****************************************************************** IJCAI-97 is soliciting {\em challenge} papers that issue specific and highly focused technical challenges relating to artificial intelligence as well as normal technical papers. Electronic title page submission due is Jan. 21, 1997, and paper submission due is Jan. 23, 1997. 33 workshops and 17 tutorials will be held at IJCAI-97. RoboCup-97 and the Third Open Computer Go Championship will be also held at IJCAI-97. The detailed information is available at the URL of http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97/ http://www.etl.go.jp/etl/suiron/ijcai-97-j/ (in Japanese) or by sending an E-mail to info@ijcai.org. Please accept our apologies for any multiple copies due to overlapping mailing lists. ---------------------------------------- Hiroshi "Gitchang" Okuno, Ph.D IJCAI-97 Publicity Chair NTT Basic Research Laboratories 3-1 Morinosato-Makamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa 243-01 JAPAN Fax: +81-462-40-4708 (Office), +81-3-5454-7254 (Home) E-mail: okuno@nue.org URL: http://www.nue.org/people/okuno/okuno-e.html ================================================== Contents: (1) Call For Papers (LaTeX) (2) Call For Challenge Papers (Plain text) (3) Program Committee (4) Call For Videos (LaTeX) ---------- (1) CFP (LaTeX) ---------------------------------------- \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \topmargin .4in \textheight 8.2in \oddsidemargin .4in \textwidth 5.6in \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large\bf CALL FOR PAPERS: IJCAI-97} \end{center} The IJCAI-97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for IJCAI-97, which is to be held in Nagoya, Japan, August 23-29, 1997. Submissions are invited on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research on all aspects of AI. \paragraph*{Timetable} Authors must first submit their paper's title page (preferably electronically, as described below) to arrive by January 21, 1997. They must then submit six complete printed copies of their paper to arrive by January 23, 1997. {\em Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened.} Authors should note that mail can sometimes be considerably delayed, especially during the winter in North America, and should take this into account when timing their submissions. Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) soon after receipt. Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be mailed to the first author (or designated author) by March 28, 1997. Camera-ready copy of accepted papers must be received by the publisher in the USA by April 28, 1997. Note that at least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference to present the work. \paragraph*{Electronic Title Page} Because of the huge number of submissions anticipated and the tight schedule we have to assign reviewers, we require that authors who desire to submit a full paper declare their intention by submitting a title page by January 21, 1997. The strongly preferred method is by using a World-Wide-Web (WWW) browser such as Netscape to connect to: \begin{flushleft} http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97/titlepage.html \end{flushleft} There they will find a title page submission form, which they can fill in, and submit. Upon submission, they will be given a unique tracking number which should be marked on the full paper submission. Authors who do not have access to a WWW browser with forms support should mail a printed title page to the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, whose address is at the end of this Call. This title page must arrive by January 21, 1997, and should have the following format: \begin{flushleft} author: name of first author\\ address: address of first author\\ \ldots\\ author: name of last author\\ address: address of last author\\ title: title of the paper\\ abstract: abstract\\ content areas: first area,..., last area\\ \end{flushleft} The abstract should be less than 200 words. Authors who submit printed title pages may omit a tracking number from the full paper. Also, authors who are submitting a printed title page, and who wish to avoid a second mailing, may mail their title pages and papers together, both to arrive by January 21. We cannot accept title pages that are submitted by email or FAX. \paragraph*{Content Areas} To facilitate the reviewing process, authors are requested to select one or more appropriate content area keywords from the list below, to appear on their title page and on the submitted paper. Please use the exact phrases below; do not make up new keywords, since they will be ignored by the paper classification software. AI architectures, applications, art and music, artificial life, audition, automated modeling, automated reasoning, control, belief revision, case-based reasoning, causality, cognitive modeling, common sense reasoning, computational complexity, computer-aided education, constraint satisfaction, decision theory, decision trees, design, description logics, diagnosis, discourse, discovery, distributed AI, enabling technologies, expert systems, game playing, genetic algorithms, geometric or spatial reasoning, information retrieval and gathering, knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, lifelike characters, machine learning, machine translation, mathematical foundations, multiagent systems, multimedia, natural language processing, network agents, neural networks, nonmonotonic reasoning, ontologies, perception, philosophical foundations, planning, probabilistic reasoning, problem solving, qualitative reasoning, reactive control, real-time systems, reinforcement learning, robotics, scheduling, scientific discovery, search, simulation, software agents, speech understanding, syntax, temporal reasoning, theorem proving, user interfaces, virtual reality, vision \paragraph*{Policy on Multiple Submissions} IJCAI will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review for, or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Authors are also expected not to submit their papers elsewhere during IJCAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to journals and conferences, not to workshops and similar specialized presentations with a limited audience. \paragraph*{Paper Format} All six copies of a submitted paper must be clearly legible. Letter quality print is required. Normally, dot-matrix printout will be unacceptable unless truly of letter quality. Exceptions will be made for submissions from countries where high quality printers are not widely available. We cannot accept email or FAX submissions of full papers. Submissions must be printed on 8 1/2 x 11 inch or A4 paper. \paragraph*{Title Page} Each copy of the paper must have a title page, separate from the body of the paper, including the title of the paper, the names and addresses of all authors, a short abstract of less than 200 words, a list of content areas (see above), tracking number from electronic submission of title page (if any, see above), and acknowledgements (if any). In addition, it must contain the following declaration: \begin{quotation} ``This paper has not already been accepted by and is not currently under review for a journal or another conference, nor will it be submitted for such during IJCAI's review period.'' \end{quotation} Please do not staple the title page to the body of the paper. \paragraph*{Paper Body} The paper body begins on the second page, and should be formatted identically with the format for camera-ready copy of accepted papers (except for the omission of names and affiliations). Detailed instructions on the required format are available from IJCAI's home page on the World-Wide-Web. In addition, macros for word processing systems have been developed to faciliate the formatting of paper submissions, and will be available from IJCAI's home page: \begin{flushleft} http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97 \end{flushleft} You can also get formatting instructions and macros by sending email to info@ijcai.org; the server will respond with instructions. Submissions must not exceed 6 pages in camera-ready format. {\em Overlength papers will be returned without review.} Each accepted paper will be allowed 6 pages in the proceedings; up to 2 additional pages may be purchased at a price of \$250 per page. Authors from countries in which access to word-processing systems is limited may submit unformatted papers. The body of these submissions must be at most 6200 words, including footnotes, figure captions, tables, appendices, and bibliography. Each half-page of figures will be counted as 500 words. Papers longer than 6200 words will be returned without review. Authors submitting unformatted papers must include a word count on the first page of their paper body. In order to make blind reviewing possible, authors should {\em omit their names and affiliations} from the paper body. In place of their names and affiliations, they should provide the list of content areas and their paper's tracking number. (Authors without access to Web browsers, who therfore did not submit electronic abstracts, may omit the tracking number.) Also, while the references should include all published literature relevant to the paper, including previous works of the authors, it should not include unpublished works. When referring to one's own work, use the third person, rather than the first person. For example, say ``Previously, Pollack [7] has shown that...", rather than ``In our previous work [7] we have shown that...." Try to avoid including any information in the body of the paper or references that would identify the authors or their institutions. Such information can be added to the final camera-ready version for publication. \paragraph*{Review Process} Papers will be subject to blind peer review: reviewers will not be aware of the identities of the authors. Selection criteria include accuracy and originality of ideas, clarity and significance of results and the quality of the presentation. The decision of the Program Committee, taking into consideration the individual reviews, will be final and cannot be appealed. Papers selected will be scheduled for presentation and will be printed in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers, or their representatives, are expected to present their papers at the conference. \paragraph*{Paper Submissions and Inquiries} The American Association for Artificial Intelligence will be providing administrative support to the IJCAI-97 Program Committee. Paper submissions should be sent to the address below. Note that it is essential that the first line of the address be ``IJCAI-97''. \begin{verse} IJCAI-97\\ American Association for Artificial Intelligence\\ 445 Burgess Drive\\ Menlo Park, CA 94025-3496 USA\\ \end{verse} Please send program suggestions and inquiries to: \begin{verse} Prof. Martha Pollack, Program Chair\\ Dept. of Computer Science\\ University of Pittsburgh\\ Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA\\ pollack@cs.pitt.edu\\ FAX: +1-412-624-5249\\ \end{verse} \end{document} ---------- (2) Call For Challenge Papers ------ Call for Challenge Papers IJCAI-97 is introducing a new mechanism for individuals and groups to issue detailed technical challenges to the AI community. We are soliciting papers that issue specific and highly focused technical challenges relating to artificial intelligence. We refer to such papers as challenges. Accepted challenge papers will be published in the IJCAI proceedings much like traditional technical papers. Unlike traditional technical papers, however, a challenge is expected to instigate a narrowly focused program of research culminating in papers submitted to the following IJCAI that address the technical challenge and summarize progress. Detailed information on format, selection criteria, and other related issues is available in the IJCAI-97 Call for Challenges at the URL of http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/tld/challenges/cfcp.html. ---------- (3) Program Committee ------ IJCAI '97 Program Committee Alterman, Richard Brandeis University, US Ben-Eliyahu, Rachel Ben Gurion University, ISRAEL Bessiere, Christian LIRM Montpellier, FRANCE Biundo, Susanne German Research Center for AI (DFKI), GERMANY Bolles, Bob SRI International, US Boutilier, Craig University of British Columbia, CANADA Dale, Robert Microsoft Research Institute and Macquarie University, AUSTRALIA Dean, Tom Brown University, US Durfee, Ed University of Michigan, US Faltings, Boi Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, SWITZERLAND Hajicova, Eva Charles University, CZECH REPUBLIC Ishida, Toru Kyoto University, JAPAN Iwasaki, Yumi Stanford University, US Korf, Richard University of California at Los Angeles, US Kuniyoshi, Yasuo Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN Lenzerini, Maurizio University of Rome, ITALY Lifschitz, Vladimir University of Texas, US Mahadevan, Sridhar University of South Florida, US Morik, Katharina University of Dortmund, GERMANY Motiwalla, Juzar National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE Mozer, Michael University of Colorado, US Pryor, Louise Harlequin Ltd., UK Rus, Daniela Dartmouth College, US Saitta, Lorenza University of Torino, ITALY Sammut, Claude University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA Tomiyama, Tetsuo University of Tokyo, JAPAN Van Harmelen, Frank Vrije University, THE NETHERLANDS ---------- (4) CFvideo.tex -------------------- \documentstyle[11pt]{article} \topmargin .4in \textheight 8.2in \oddsidemargin .4in \textwidth 5.6in \begin{document} \begin{center} {\Large \bf IJCAI-97 Video Track : Call For Videos}\\ \end{center} \vspace{.25in} As a medium, videotapes are better suited than written papers to {\em illuminate} the efficacy of AI research, especially in the emerging and exciting areas of AI in Education, Art, Music, Entertainment, Hypermedia, 3-D Animation, Artificial Life, Network-Based tools like Mosaic, etc. If a picture is worth thousand words, then a (3-D) movie will certainly enhance the illustration of behaviors of these systems that are based on AI principles, methods, and tools. Recognizing this potential of video presentations to demonstrate and augment AI research results, a Video Track has been designated since IJCAI-89 to be an integral part of the Technical Programs of IJCAI Conferences. The Video Track is designed to demonstrate the current levels of usefulness of AI tools, techniques, and methods for a variety of practical and theoretical problems arising in industrial, commercial, government, space, and educational areas. You are invited and strongly encouraged to submit to this video track and take advantage of the following opportunities and benefits that we intend to provide as a forum to showcase your best AI research results. \begin{itemize} \item Special video sessions will be organised and timetabled as part of the conference, giving authors an opportunity to present and briefly discuss their videos. \item Abstracts of accepted videos will appear in the conference proceedings. \item The entire video program will be published by IJCAI Inc. and available for sale after the conference. \item Apart from the scheduled video sessions where the authors will participate in the presentations, we also plan to make the video program widely viewable by the conference attendees by designating certain time periods during which the videos will run unattended. \end{itemize} Additional details are provided below on: \begin{itemize} \item Submission Requirements and Guidelines; \item Review Criteria; \item Publication; \item Important Dates, and \item Contact Information. \end{itemize} We look forward to your submissions that will contribute to the success of the IJCAI-97 Video Track.\\ \\ {\large {\bf Submission Requirements and Guidelines}}\\ \\ Authors are invited to submit THREE (3) copies of a videotape of 15 minutes maximum duration, accompanied by a submission letter that includes: \begin{itemize} \item Title \item Full names, postal addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of all authors \item Subject matter area (e.g. knowledge acquisition, learning, vision,....) \item Tape format: indicate either NTSC-VHS(preferred) or PAL-VHS \item Duration of tape in minutes \item THREE (3) copies of an abstract of one to two pages in length, containing the title of the video, and full names and addresses of the authors \item Author's permission to copy tape for review purposes. \end{itemize} All tapes, along with their abstracts, must be received by the Videotape Track Chair no later than {\bf January 6, 1997}. Submissions received after that date will be returned unopened. Authors should note that ordinary mail can sometimes be considerably delayed and should take this into account when timing their submissions. \begin{itemize} \item Notification of receipt will be mailed to the first or designated author soon after receipt. \item All inquiries regarding lost submissions must be made by {\bf February 10, 1997}. \item Tapes cannot be returned; authors should retain extra copies for making revisions. \item Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or before {\bf March 10, 1997} to the first or designated author. \item Authors will also have the opportunity to submit a revised version of their videotape about one month following notification of acceptance. \item The final version of videotapes must not be more than fifteen (15) minutes duration, must be in NTSC-VHS format (U.S. Standard only) and must be submitted directly to the Video Track Chair. \item Accepted tapes will be sent directly from the Video Track Chair to the conference publisher. \end{itemize} {\large {\bf Review Criteria}}\\ Each tape will be rigorously reviewed by experts in the subject matter areas of the tape and only the best tapes will be selected for presentation at the conference. The following general criteria will guide the selection: \begin{itemize} \item Significance and originality of system functionality presented; \item The need for and the contribution of the AI component of the system; \item Clarity of presentation of system's goals, methods, and results; \item Quality of Presentation (including audio, video, and pace). \item Level of interest to the conference audience; \end{itemize} Preference will be given to systems that show a high level of maturity. Tapes that are deemed to be advertising commercial products, propaganda, purely expository materials, merely taped lectures, or material not of scientific or technical value will be rejected.\\ \\ {\large {\bf Publication}}\\ Abstracts of accepted videos will be allotted a maximum of two pages each in the conference proceedings. The style of these two-page papers should be the same as the full length papers in the Proceedings, with an initial abstract of approximately 50 words. The final version of the video's abstract, edited in the format specified in the acceptance letter, must be received by the publishers in the USA by {\bf April 28th, 1997}. Authors will be required to transfer copyright of their abstract (but not the video) to IJCAI Inc. In addition, a 30-minute presentation slot will be made available as part of one of the video sessions. To ensure a consistent format to the sessions and an opportunity for questions, authors should keep as close as possible to the following format for their presentations: \begin{itemize} \item 3 minutes introductory presentation \item 10-13 minutes (average) video showing \item 7-10 minutes technical details \item 2 minutes conclusions \item 5 minutes question period \end{itemize} In addition to showing the accepted tapes at the conference, copies of them will be available at a nominal cost after the conference. The videotape presentations started at IJCAI-89. Previously presented videotapes are available from Morgan Kaufmann as ISBN 1-55860-097-3 (IJCAI-89), ISBN 1-55860-183-X (IJCAI-91) and ISBN 1-55860-047-3 (IJCAI-93). Contact Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 2929 Campus Drive, Suite 260, San Mateo, CA 94403, USA; (+1-415)578-9911; (+1-415)578-0672 fax; morgan@unix.sri.com.\\ \\ {\large {\bf Important Dates}} \begin{itemize} \item Tapes and Abstracts submissions to Video Track Chair on or before {\bf January 6, 1997}. \item Notification of acceptance or rejection will be mailed on or before {\bf March 10, 1997}. \item The final version of the video's abstract must be received by the publishers in the USA by {\bf April 28, 1997}. \end{itemize} {\large {\bf Contact Information}}\\ \\ Please send Video Track Call clarification and other related inquiries to:\\ \\ {\bf Video Track Chair:}\\ \\ Prof. Toyoaki Nishida\\ Graduate School of Information Science\\ Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)\\ 8916-5 Takayama, Ikoma, Nara 630-01, Japan\\ phone: +81-7437-2-5260, FAX: +81-7437-2-5269\\ E-mail: nishida@is.aist-nara.ac.jp \end{document}