From haussler@cse.ucsc.edu Tue Jul 16 23:19:34 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 XAA01090 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 23:19:26 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA08006 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 1996 17:55:49 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa15230; 16 Jul 96 18:18:48 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15228; 16 Jul 96 17:56:22 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07749; 16 Jul 96 17:55:46 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16548; 15 Jul 96 22:20:06 EDT Received: from arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa27959; 15 Jul 96 22:19:42 EDT Received: (from haussler@localhost) by arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu (8.6.10/8.6.9) id TAA28950; Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:19:38 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 19:19:38 -0700 From: David Haussler Message-Id: <199607160219.TAA28950@arapaho.cse.ucsc.edu> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Postdoctoral Positions in Biosequence Analysis at UCSC Cc: colt@cs.uiuc.edu Postdoctoral and Graduate Researcher Positions in Biosequence Analysis at UCSC We are looking for people with backgrounds in statistics and computer science (e.g. machine learning, hidden Markov models, neural networks, speech recognition) to design and implement algorithms to find new genes in human DNA sequences, and to predict the structure and function of newly discovered protein sequences. Working knowledge of molecular biology is desired but not required; we can teach you what you need to know to get started and then you can learn the rest while you are here. An introductory overview of our research and selection of recent papers can be found at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/research/compbio. The URL http://science-mag.aaas.org/science/scripts/display/short/272/5269/1730.html contains a recent article in Science about how hot this field is. Our biosequence analysis group currently consists of 3 faculty: D. Haussler (Computer Science), R. Hughey and K. Karplus (Computer Engineering), as well as 8 graduate students, 6 undergraduate students, and a postgraduate researcher. We have active collaborations with biologists at UCSC, as well as with groups at Lawrence Berkeley Labs Genome Center, the Sanger Centre, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. We have one postdoc position to start Jan. 1, 1997, and have the opportunity during this month (before Aug. 1, 1996) to apply for another postdoc position that will also start Jan. 1. In addition, we are trying to build our graduate program in this area, so we encourage post-baccalaureate students to apply to begin graduate study at UCSC in this area in Fall 1997. (In exceptional cases we will consider graduate applications for Jan. 1 or March 31, 1997 as well.) We support qualified graduate students with research assistantships. If you are interested in a postdoc position, send your vita and letters of reference asap to Lisa Pascal (lisa@cse.ucsc.edu, hardcopy: Lisa Pascal, Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz CA 95064). Applications and other information about our graduate program can be obtained on the web by starting at http://www.cse.ucsc.edu or by calling the graduate division at 408 459-2301 (email: gradadm@cats.ucsc.edu). For addition information about graduate study in computer science and computer engineering contact Carol Mullane (mullane@cse.ucsc.edu; 408 459-2576). From ling@cs.hku.hk Wed Jul 17 15:20:06 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 PAA11943 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:19:59 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA23235 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 1996 15:19:55 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa16443; 17 Jul 96 14:59:53 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16440; 17 Jul 96 14:44:59 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa08343; 17 Jul 96 14:44:11 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05739; 17 Jul 96 14:06:30 EDT Received: from ns.cs.hku.hk by CS.CMU.EDU id aa16836; 17 Jul 96 14:05:49 EDT Received: from stamina.cs.hku.hk by ns.cs.hku.hk with SMTP id AA21526 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ) Thu, 18 Jul 1996 02:04:49 +0800 From: "Charles X. Ling" Received: by stamina.cs.hku.hk (4.1/S2.0-sunos4) id AA09004; Thu, 18 Jul 96 02:07:45 HKT Date: Thu, 18 Jul 96 02:07:45 HKT Message-Id: <9607171807.AA09004@stamina.cs.hku.hk> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Computational Cognitive Modeling: Source of the Power Cc: ling@cs.hku.hk AAAI-96 Workshop Computational Cognitive Modeling Source of the Power One-day Workshop. August 5, 1996 (During UAI, KDD, AAAI, and IAAI. Portland, Oregon) Visit http://www.cs.hku.hk/~ling for updated info Program Committee: Charles Ling (co-chair), University of Hong Kong, ling@cs.hku.hk Ron Sun (co-chair), University of Alabama, rsun@cs.ua.edu Pat Langley, Stanford University Mike Pazzani, UC Irvine Tom Shultz, McGill University Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo Kurt VanLehn, Univ. of Pittsburgh Invited speakers: Gary Cottrell, Jeff Elman, Denis Mareschal, Tom Shultz, Aaron Sloman, and Paul Thagard. Note: To attend the Workshop, you MUST register. To register, send e-mails to Charles Ling or Ron Sun. If you register the AAAI main conference, registration fee is free (but you still need to register); otherwise, there is a fee of $150 per Workshop. The Workshop Program and Schedule 9:00 am: Welcome and Introduction. Charles Ling and Ron Sun (Co-Chairs) 9:10 am: Aaron Sloman, The University of Birmingham, UK What sort of architecture is required for a human-like agent? (invited talk) 9:40 am: Susan L. Epstein and Jack Gelfand, City University of New York, USA The creation of new problem solving agents from experience with visual features 10:00 am: Denis Mareschal, Exeter University, UK Models of Object Permanence: How and Why they Work (invited talk) 10:30 am: coffee break 11:00 am: Pat Langley, Stanford University, USA An abstract computational model of learning selective sensing skills 11:20 am: Craig S. Miller, Dickinson College, USA The source of graded performance in a symbolic rule-based model 11:40 am: Christian D. Schunn and Lynne M. Reder, Carnegie Mellon University Modeling changes in strategy selections over time 12:00 pm: lunch break 1:30 pm: poster session 2:30 pm: Tom Shultz, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Generative Connectionist Models of Cognitive Development: Why They Work (invited talk) 3:00 pm: Garrison W. Cottrell, University of California, San Diego, USA Selective attention in the acquisition of the past tense (invited talk) 3:30 pm coffee break 4:00 pm: Jeff Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA States and stacks: Doing computation with a recurrent neural network (invited talk) 4:30 pm: Paul Thagard, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada Evaluating Computational Models of Cognition: Notes from the Analogy Wars (invited talk) 5:00 pm: Tony Veale, Barry Smyth, Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Mark Keane Representational myopia in cognitive mapping 5:20 pm: Panel and discussions Panelists: Charles Ling, Ron Sun, Pat Langley, Mike Pazzani. 6:30 pm: end From liaw@bmsr14.usc.edu Fri Jul 19 05:46:13 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 FAA09730 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:45:20 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA20503 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 05:45:18 -0500 Received: by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18300; 19 Jul 96 5:42:14 EDT Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa17788; 19 Jul 96 0:14:01 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17786; 18 Jul 96 23:47:55 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00268; 18 Jul 96 23:46:12 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa11366; 18 Jul 96 17:13:24 EDT Received: from usc.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa27777; 18 Jul 96 17:12:33 EDT Received: from bmsr14.usc.edu (liaw@bmsr14.usc.edu [128.125.33.14]) by usc.edu (8.7.2/8.7.2/usc) with ESMTP id OAA03234; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:08:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from liaw@localhost) by bmsr14.usc.edu (8.7.2/8.7.2/usc) id OAA07319; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 14:08:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim-Shih Liaw Message-Id: <199607182108.OAA07319@bmsr14.usc.edu> To: list@cogsci.soton.ac.uk, alife@cognet.ucla.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, gann@cs.iastate.edu, cvnet@skivs.ski.org, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au, hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu, comp-neuro@smaug.bbb.caltech.edu, neuroethology@sio.ucsd.edu Subject: Workshop on SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION Cc: KIISA@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu REGISTRATION INFORMATION Workshop on SENSORIMOTOR COORDINATION: AMPHIBIANS, MODELS, AND COMPARATIVE STUDIES Poco Diablo Resort, Sedona, Arizona, November 22-24, 1996 Co-Directors: Kiisa Nishikawa (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff) and Michael Arbib (University of Southern California, Los Angeles). Local Arrangements Chair: Kiisa Nishikawa. E-mail enquiries may be addressed to Kiisa.Nishikawa@nau.edu or arbib@pollux.usc.edu. Further information may be found on our home page at http://www.nau.edu:80/~biology/vismot.html. Program Committee: Kiisa Nishikawa (Chair), Michael Arbib, Emilio Bizzi, Chris Comer, Peter Ewert, Simon Giszter, Mel Goodale, Ananda Weerasuriya, Walt Wilczynski, and Phil Zeigler. SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM The aim of this workshop is to study the neural mechanisms of sensorimotor coordination in amphibians and other model systems for their intrinsic interest, as a target for developments in computational neuroscience, and also as a basis for comparative and evolutionary studies. The list of subsidiary themes given below is meant to be representative of this comparative dimension, but is not intended to be exhaustive. The emphasis (but not the exclusive emphasis) will be on papers that encourage the dialog between modeling and experimentation. A decision as to whether or not to publish a proceedings is still pending. Central Theme: Sensorimotor Coordination in Amphibians and Other Model Systems Subsidiary Themes: Visuomotor Coordination: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives Reaching and Grasping in Frog, Pigeon, and Primate Cognitive Maps Motor Pattern Generators This workshop is the sequel to four earlier workshops on the general theme of "Visuomotor Coordination in Frog and Toad: Models and Experiments". The first two were organized by Rolando Lara and Michael Arbib at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1981) and Mexico City (1982). The next two were organized by Peter Ewert and Arbib in Kassel and Los Angeles, respectively, with the Proceedings published as follows: Ewert, J.-P. and M. A. Arbib (Eds.) 1989. Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models and Robots. New York: Plenum Press. Arbib, M.A. and J.-P. Ewert (Eds.) 1991. Visual Structures and Integrated Functions, Research Notes in Neural Computing 3. Heidelberg, New York: Springer Verlag. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Meeting Location and General Information The Workshop will be held at the Poco Diablo Resort in Sedona, Arizona (a beautiful small town set in dramatic red hills) immediately following the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 1996. The 1996 Neuroscience meeting ends on Thursday, November 21, so workshop participants can fly from Washington, DC to Phoenix, AZ that evening, meet Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, with a Workshop Banquet on Sunday evening, and fly home on Monday, November 25th. Paper sessions will be held all day on Friday, on Saturday afternoon, and all day on Sunday. Poster sessions will be held on Saturday afternoon and evening. A group field trip is planned for Saturday morning. Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Participation In order to encourage the participation of graduate students and postdoctorals, we have arranged for affordable housing, and in addition we are able to offer a reduced registration fee (see below) thanks to the generous contribution of the Office of the Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies at Northern Arizona University. Travel from Phoenix to Sedona Sedona, AZ is located approximately 100 miles north of Phoenix, where the nearest major airport (Sky Harbor) is located. Workshop attendees may wish to arrange their own transportation (e.g., car rental from Phoenix airport) from Phoenix to Sedona, or they may use the Workshop Shuttle (estimated round trip cost $20 US) to Sedona on 21 November, with a return to Phoenix on 25 November. If you plan to use the Workshop Shuttle, we will need to know your expected arrival time in Phoenix by 1 October 1996, to ensure that space is available for you at a convenient time. Lodging The following costs are for each night. Since many participants may want to extend their stay to further enjoy Arizona's scenic beauty, we have negotiated special rates for additional nights after the end of the workshop on November 24th. Attendees should make their own booking with the Poco Diablo Resort, by phone (800) 352-5710 or FAX (520) 282-9712. Thurs.-Fri. (and additional week nights before the workshop) per night: students $85 US + tax, faculty $105 + tax Sat.-Sun. (and additional week nights after the workshop) per night: students $69 + tax, faculty $89 + tax. The student room rates are for double occupancy. Thus, students willing to share a room may stay for half the stated rate. When you make your room reservations with the Poco Diablo Resort, please be sure to indicate the number of guests in your party. Graduate students and postdocs should be sure to indicate whether they want single or double occupancy. Registration Fees Students and postdoctorals $100; faculty, guests and others $200. The registration fee includes lunch Fri. - Sun., wine and cheese reception during the Saturday evening poster session, and a Farewell Dinner on Sunday evening. Registration fees should be paid by check in US funds, made payable to "Sensorimotor Coordination Workshop", and should be sent to Kiisa Nishikawa at the address listed below, together with the completed registration form that follows at the end of this announcement. Completed registration forms and fees must be received by 1 August, 1996. Late registration fees will be $150 for students and postdoctorals and $250 for faculty. REGISTRATION FORM NAME: ADDRESS: PHONE: FAX: EMAIL: STATUS: [ ] Faculty ($200); [ ] Postdoctoral ($100); [ ] Student ($100); [ ] Other ($200). (Postdocs and students: Please attach certification of your status signed by your supervisor.) TYPE OF PRESENTATION (paper vs. poster) ABSTRACT SUBMITTED (yes/no) AREAS OF INTEREST RELEVANT TO WORKSHOP: WILL YOU REQUIRE ANY SPECIAL AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR PRESENTATION? HAVE YOU MADE A RESERVATION WITH THE HOTEL? EXPECTED TIME OF ARRIVAL IN PHOENIX (ON NOVEMBER 21): EXPECTED TIME OF DEPARTURE FROM PHOENIX (ON NOVEMBER 25): DO YOU WISH TO USE THE WORKSHOP SHUTTLE TO TRAVEL FROM PHOENIX TO SEDONA? (If so, please be sure that we know your expected arrival time by 1 October!) DO YOU WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN A GROUP HIKE IN THE SEDONA AREA ON SATURDAY MORNING? Please make sure that your check (in US funds and payable to the Sensorimotor Coordination Workshop) is included with this form. If you plan to bring a guest with you to the Workshop, please add their name(s) to this form and enclose their registration fee along with your own. Mail to: Kiisa Nishikawa, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5640. E-mail: Kiisa.Nishikawa@nau.edu. FAX: (520)523-7500. Phone: (520)523-9497. From philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk Fri Jul 19 15:04:30 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 PAA18377 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:04:24 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA26725 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:04:22 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa18742; 19 Jul 96 14:53:07 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa18740; 19 Jul 96 14:41:01 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00907; 19 Jul 96 14:40:50 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa20497; 19 Jul 96 10:44:51 EDT Received: from [192.33.16.76] by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa16617; 19 Jul 96 10:44:08 EDT Received: by animal.crn.cogs.susx.ac.uk (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0uhGmN-000033C; Fri, 19 Jul 96 15:43 BST Message-Id: Subject: 2 postdocs, comp. neuroscience and robotics To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 15:43:43 +0100 (BST) From: Phil Husbands MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 2174 Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics University of Sussex TWO RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Neuroscience and AI are areas in which the University of Sussex is exceptionally strong. A new interdisciplinary Centre has recently been established to promote synergy between studies of artificial and biological nervous systems. Applications are invited for two post-doctoral fellowships to work in an exciting, interactive and unusual environment in this interdisciplinary Centre. POST 1 Computational Modelling of Biological Sensory Processing The aim is to understand the neural mechanisms underlying motion detection. The project will involve tight coupling of computer modelling and electrophysiological data. It will feed directly into our work on robot nervous systems. POST 2 Artificial Evolution of Nervous Systems for Robots The aim is to expand the evolutionary robotics field developed at Sussex by evolving robots with more complex behavioural capabilities, in particular to evolve minimally cognitive robots. Salary will be on the Research and Analogous Faculty Grade 1A scale 14,317 to 21,519 per annum. The posts are available immediately and will be for two years in the first instance with the possibility of renewal. Informal enquiries are encouraged. Enquiries about Post 1 should be made to Professor Michael O'Shea (Tel +44 (0)1273 678055; Fax +44 (0)1273 678535; email M.O-Shea@sussex.ac.uk) and for Post 2 to Dr Phil Husbands (Tel +44 (0)1273 678556; Fax +44 (0)1273 671320; email philh@cogs.susx.ac.uk). http://www.biols.sussex.ac.uk/Biols/IRC/ccnr.html Applications, (curriculum vitae, one or two sample publications, and the names and addresses of at least two referees) should be sent to the Administrator, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK. Closing date: 1st October 1996. From jagota@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU Fri Jul 19 23:10:42 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 XAA23125 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:10:33 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU (TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU [128.2.254.108]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01589 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 23:10:31 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa19356; 19 Jul 96 23:11:20 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19354; 19 Jul 96 23:02:54 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa01097; 19 Jul 96 23:02:27 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa00219; 19 Jul 96 22:55:00 EDT Received: from icsia.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU by RI.CMU.EDU id aa12663; 19 Jul 96 22:53:29 EDT Received: from flapjack.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (jagota@flapjack.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.201.158]) by icsia.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.13/HUB+V8$Revision: 1.23 $) with ESMTP id TAA15079 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 19:53:15 -0700 From: Arun Jagota Received: (jagota@localhost) by flapjack.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.13/1.8) id TAA08445 for connectionists@cs.cmu.edu; Fri, 19 Jul 1996 19:53:13 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 19:53:13 -0700 Message-Id: <199607200253.TAA08445@flapjack.ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Electronic Journal Announcement Content-Length: 3626 Dear Connectionists: This is a first announcement and CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Manuscripts are invited, beginning now. Arun Jagota ----------- ________________________ NEURAL COMPUTING SURVEYS ------------------------ A refereed electronic journal published on the World Wide Web http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~jagota/NCS MISSION One way to cope with the exponential increase in the number of articles published in recent years is to ignore most of them. A second, perhaps more satisfying, approach is to provide a forum that encourages the regular production -- and perusal -- of high-quality survey articles. This is especially useful in an inter-disciplinary, evolving field such as Neural Computing. This journal aims to bring the second approach to bear. It is intended to + encourage researchers to write good survey papers. + provides an efficiently searchable repository -- perhaps the first that comes to mind -- for researchers to look at in times of need. TOPICS COVERED All aspects of Neural Computing. See the web site for details. BOARD OF ADVISORS (to expand) Yaser Abu-Mostafa Caltech Michael Arbib USC Eric Baum NEC Research Institute Jeff Elman UCSD Scott Fahlman CMU Lee C. Giles NEC Research Institute Michael Jordan MIT Wolfgang Maass TU-Graz, Austria Eric Mjolsness UCSD Michael Mozer Colorado U. Eduardo Sontag Rutgers U. Lei Xu CUHK MANAGING EDITOR Arun Jagota UCSC & ICSI-Berkeley (vis) jagota@icsi.berkeley.edu EDITORIAL BOARD (to expand somewhat) Suzanna Becker McMaster U. Yoshua Bengio bengioy@iro.umontreal.ca Wray Buntine wray@buntine.brainstorm.net Joydeep Ghosh ghosh@ece.utexas.edu Zoubin Ghahramani zoubin@cs.toronto.edu Arun Jagota jagota@icsi.berkeley.edu Pascal Koiran koiran@lip.ens-lyon.fr Barak Pearlmutter barak.pearlmutter@alumni.cs.cmu.edu Michael Perrone mpp@watson.ibm.com Anand Rangarajan rangarajan-anand@cs.yale.edu Hava Siegelmann iehava@ie.technion.ac.il Yoram Singer singer@research.att.com Ron Sun rsun@cs.ua.edu John-Shawe Taylor john@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk Sebastian Thrun thrun+@cs.cmu.edu Xin Wang xwang@cs.ucla.edu Lei Xu Chinese U. of Hong Kong FEATURES AT A GLANCE Survey-only Postscript & Hypertext Attachments allowed Peer-reviewed No length restrictions No delays upon acceptance Free FORMS & ATTACHMENTS Survey papers may take the form of an ESSAY or a COMPENDIUM. ATTACHMENTS to an accepted paper -- optional to the authors -- allow use of the capabilities of the web to connect to several kinds of material closely related to the original paper. A clear separation is made between attachments (which are unrefereed and changable) and the main paper (which is refereed and not changable). See the web site for more details. HOW TO SUBMIT Electronic submissions (in postscript format) are strongly encouraged, to any one of the editors based on matching area (see web site for listing of areas of editors). A Latex style file will be available for the NCS format. See the web site for details. PRINT VERSION A print version, published by some well-known publisher as a "backup" to the electronic version, is being strongly considered. FTP ACCESS Those without convenient access to the World Wide Web might use anonymous ftp as follows (see the README file there): ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/ai/jagota ______________________________________________________________________________