From cas-cns@cns.bu.edu Tue Sep 17 01:13:12 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 BAA00945 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:13:05 -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 BAA17386 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:12:59 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04578; 16 Sep 96 21:30:38 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04576; 16 Sep 96 20:56:04 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13600; 16 Sep 96 20:55:35 EDT Received: from MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa12887; 16 Sep 96 9:08:19 EDT Received: from MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13702; 16 Sep 96 9:07:26 EDT Received: from CNS.BU.EDU by MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13699; 16 Sep 96 9:06:59 EDT Received: from mac-duffee.bu.edu by cns.bu.edu (SMI-8.6/BU-11/2/94) id JAA09941; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:04:48 -0400 Message-Id: <199609161304.JAA09941@cns.bu.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:05:02 -0400 From: CAS/CNS To: cas-cns@cns.bu.edu Subject: Grad Training - BU Cognitive & Neural Systems Organization: Boston University - Dept. of Cognitive & Neural Systems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.0 ************************************************************************* GRADUATE TRAINING IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS (CNS) AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY ************************************************************************* The Boston University Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems offers comprehensive graduate training in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of technological problems. Applications for Fall, 1997, admission and financial aid are now being accepted for both the MA and PhD degree programs. To obtain a brochure describing the CNS Program and a set of application materials, write, telephone, or fax: DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 617/353-9481 (phone) 617/353-7755 (fax) or send via email your full name and mailing address to: rll@cns.bu.edu (Ms. Robin L. Locke) Applications for admission and financial aid should be received by the Graduate School Admissions Office no later than January 15. Late applications will be considered until May 1; after that date applications will be considered only as special cases. Applicants are required to submit undergraduate (and, if applicable, graduate) transcripts, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores. The Advanced Test should be in the candidate's area of departmental specialization. GRE scores may be waived for MA candidates and, in exceptional cases, for PhD candidates, but absence of these scores may decrease an applicant's chances for admission and financial aid. Non-degree students may also enroll in CNS courses on a part-time basis. Stephen Grossberg, Chairman Gail A. Carpenter, Director of Graduate Studies Description of the CNS Department: The Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) provides advanced training and research experience for graduate students interested in the neural and computational principles, mechanisms, and architectures that underlie human and animal behavior, and the application of neural network architectures to the solution of outstanding technological problems. Students are trained in a broad range of areas concerning cognitive and neural systems, including vision and image processing; speech and language understanding; adaptive pattern recognition; cognitive information processing; self-organization; associative learning and long-term memory; cooperative and competitive network dynamics and short-term memory; reinforcement, motivation, and attention; adaptive sensory-motor control and robotics; and biological rhythms; as well as the mathematical and computational methods needed to support advanced modeling research and applications. The CNS Department awards MA, PhD, and BA/MA degrees. The CNS Department embodies a number of unique features. It has developed a curriculum that consists of interdisciplinary graduate courses, each of which integrates the psychological, neurobiological, mathematical, and computational information needed to theoretically investigate fundamental issues concerning mind and brain processes and the applications of neural networks to technology. Additional advanced courses, including research seminars, are also offered. Each course is typically taught once a week in the afternoon or evening to make the program available to qualified students, including working professionals, throughout the Boston area. Students develop a coherent area of expertise by designing a program that includes courses in areas such as biology, computer science, engineering, mathematics, and psychology, in addition to courses in the CNS curriculum. The CNS Department prepares students for thesis research with scientists in one of several Boston University research centers or groups, and with Boston-area scientists collaborating with these centers. The unit most closely linked to the department is the Center for Adaptive Systems. Students interested in neural network hardware work with researchers in CNS, at the College of Engineering, and at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Other research resources include distinguished research groups in neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, and neuropharmacology at the Medical School and the Charles River Campus; in sensory robotics, biomedical engineering, computer and systems engineering, and neuromuscular research within the Engineering School; in dynamical systems within the Mathematics Department; in theoretical computer science within the Computer Science Department; and in biophysics and computational physics within the Physics Department. In addition to its basic research and training program, the department conducts a seminar series, as well as conferences and symposia, which bring together distinguished scientists from both experimental and theoretical disciplines. The department is housed in its own new four story building which includes ample space for faculty and student offices and laboratories, as well as an auditorium, classroom and seminar rooms, library, and faculty-student lounge. 1996-97 CAS MEMBERS and CNS FACULTY: Jelle Atema Professor of Biology Director, Boston University Marine Program (BUMP) PhD, University of Michigan Sensory physiology and behavior Aijaz Baloch Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Electrical Engineering, Boston University Neural modeling of role of visual attention of recognition, learning and motor control, computational vision, adaptive control systems, reinforcement learning Helen Barbas Associate Professor, Department of Health Sciences PhD, Physiology/Neurophysiology, McGill University Organization of the prefrontal cortex, evolution of the neocortex Jacob Beck Research Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Psychology, Cornell University Visual perception, psychophysics, computational models Daniel H. Bullock Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, Stanford University Real-time neural systems, sensory-motor learning and control, evolution of intelligence, cognitive development Gail A. Carpenter Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Mathematics Director of Graduate Studies Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison Pattern recognition, categorization, machine learning, differential equations Laird Cermak Professor of Neuropsychology, School of Medicine Professor of Occupational Therapy, Sargent College Director, Memory Disorders Research Center Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center PhD, Ohio State University Memory disorders Michael A. Cohen Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Computer Science Director, CAS/CNS Computation Labs PhD, Psychology, Harvard University Speech and language processing, measurement theory, neural modeling, dynamical systems H. Steven Colburn Professor of Biomedical Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Audition, binaural interaction, signal processing models of hearing William D. Eldred III Associate Professor of Biology PhD, University of Colorado, Health Science Center Visual neural biology Paolo Gaudiano Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Computational and neural models of robotics, vision, adaptive sensory-motor control, and behavioral neurobiology Jean Berko Gleason Professor of Psychology PhD, Harvard University Psycholinguistics Douglas Greve Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Active vision Stephen Grossberg Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Mathematics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering Director, Center for Adaptive Systems Chairman, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Mathematics, Rockefeller University Theoretical biology, theoretical psychology, dynamical systems, applied mathematics Frank Guenther Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Biological sensory-motor control, spatial representation, speech production Thomas G. Kincaid Professor of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering PhD, Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Signal and image processing, neural networks, non-destructive testing Nancy Kopell Professor of Mathematics PhD, Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley Dynamical systems, mathematical physiology, pattern formation in biological/physical systems Ennio Mingolla Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Psychology PhD, Psychology, University of Connecticut Visual perception, mathematical modeling of visual processes Alan Peters Chairman and Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology, School of Medicine PhD, Zoology, Bristol University, United Kingdom Organization of neurons in the cerebral cortex, effects of aging on the primate brain, fine structure of the nervous system Andrzej Przybyszewski Senior Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Warsaw Medical Academy Retinal physiology, mathematical and computer modeling of dynamical properties of neurons in the visual system Adam Reeves Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Professor of Psychology, Northeastern University PhD, Psychology, City University of New York Psychophysics, cognitive psychology, vision Mark Rubin Research Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Physicist, Naval Air Warfare Center, China Lake, CA (on leave) PhD, Physics, University of Chicago Neural networks for vision, pattern recognition, and motor control Robert Savoy Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Scientist, Rowland Institute for Science PhD, Experimental Psychology, Harvard University Computational neuroscience; visual psychophysics of color, form, and motion perception Eric Schwartz Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems; Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering; and Anatomy and Neurobiology PhD, High Energy Physics, Columbia University Computational neuroscience, machine vision, neuroanatomy, neural modeling Robert Sekuler Adjunct Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, BioMolecular Engineering Research Center Jesse and Louis Salvage Professor of Psychology, Brandeis University Sc.M., PhD, Brown University Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Psychoacoustics, audition, auditory localization, binaural hearing, sensorimotor adaptation, mathematical models of human performance Takeo Watanabe Assistant Professor of Psychology PhD, Behavioral Sciences, University of Tokyo Perception of objects and motion and effects of attention on perception using psychophysics and brain imaging (f-MRI) Allen Waxman Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Senior Staff Scientist, MIT Lincoln Laboratory PhD, Astrophysics, University of Chicago Visual system modeling, mobile robotic systems, parallel computing, optoelectronic hybrid architectures James Williamson Research Associate of Cognitive and Neural Systems PhD, Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Image processing and object recognition. Particular interests are: dynamic binding, self-organization, shape representation, and classification Jeremy Wolfe Adjunct Associate Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School Psychophysicist, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Surgery Dept. Director of Psychophysical Studies, Center for Clinical Cataract Research PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visual search ************************************************************************* DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS GRADUATE TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, MA 02215 Phone: 617/353-9481 Fax: 617/353-7755 Email: rll@cns.bu.edu ************************************************************************* From Jon.Baxter@keating.anu.edu.au Tue Sep 17 05:17:37 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 FAA03127 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 05:17:27 -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 FAA18970 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 05:17:24 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa04741; 16 Sep 96 23:40:09 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04739; 16 Sep 96 23:27:19 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13716; 16 Sep 96 23:26:24 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27440; 16 Sep 96 22:04:09 EDT Received: from keating.anu.edu.au by RI.CMU.EDU id aa28657; 16 Sep 96 22:03:22 EDT Received: (from jon@localhost) by keating.anu.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA01701; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:03:05 +1000 From: Jonathan Baxter Message-Id: <199609170203.MAA01701@keating.anu.edu.au> Subject: Re: [arthur@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at: TR: Limitations of SOM] To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 12:03:05 +1000 (EST) Cc: Jonathan Baxter In-Reply-To: <9609110045.AA03818@peduncle.ai.mit.edu> from "Shimon Edelman" at Sep 10, 96 08:45:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 2133 Commenting on this paper: > > Flexer A.: Limitations of self-organizing maps for vector quantization and > > multidimensional scaling, to appear in: Advances in Neural Information > > Processing Systems 9, edited by M.C. Mozer, M.I. Jordan, and T. Petsche, > > available in 1997. Shimon Edelman said: > > Seeing that comments are welcome... there seems to be a rather glaring > gap in the references in this TR. Fukunaga proposed a similar > combination of clustering and topology-preservation criteria in 1972, > and there was a recent paper by Webb following up on that work. > > It would have been nice to see Baxter's idea of Canonical Vector > Quantization discussed in this context. If anyone is interested, there is a recent version (July 1996) of the Canonical Quantization paper on my home page: http://keating.anu.edu.au/~jon/papers/canonical.ps.gz Title: The Canonical Distortion Measure for Vector Quantization and Approximation. Author: Jonathan Baxter Abstract: To measure the quality of a set of vector quantization points a means of measuring the distance between a random point and its quantization is required. Common metrics such as the {\em Hamming} and {\em Euclidean} metrics, while mathematically simple, are inappropriate for comparing speech signals or images. In this paper it is shown how an {\em environment} of functions on an input space $X$ induces a {\em canonical distortion measure} (CDM) on X. The depiction ``canonical'' is justified because it is shown that optimizing the reconstruction error of X with respect to the CDM gives rise to optimal piecewise constant approximations of the functions in the environment. The CDM is calculated in closed form for several different function classes. An algorithm for training neural networks to implement the CDM is presented along with some encouraging experimental results. ------------- Jonathan Baxter Department of Systems Engineering Research School of Information Science and Technology Australian National University Canberra, A.C.T 0200 Australia Tel: +61 6 249 5182 Fax: +61 6 279 8088 E-mail: jon@syseng.anu.edu.au From gorr@willamette.edu Tue Sep 17 22:48:02 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 WAA22400 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:47:55 -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 WAA04599 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:47:48 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa06182; 17 Sep 96 16:58:50 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06180; 17 Sep 96 16:42:32 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa14322; 17 Sep 96 16:41:17 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16664; 17 Sep 96 14:31:22 EDT Received: from earth.willamette.edu by CS.CMU.EDU id aa26203; 17 Sep 96 14:30:32 EDT Received: from mirror.willamette.edu (mirror.willamette.edu [158.104.7.129]) by earth.willamette.edu (8.7.5/8.6.4) with ESMTP id LAA04391; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (gorr@localhost) by mirror.willamette.edu (8.7.3/8.6.4) id LAA01053; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Jenny Orr Message-Id: <199609171832.LAA01053@mirror.willamette.edu> To: Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: NIPS*96 Postconference Workshop Cc: gorr@willamette.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: khFdNxLZ0lNwUu9e7Qz2kQ== CALL FOR SPEAKERS NIPS*96 Postconference Workshop TRICKS OF THE TRADE: How to Make Algorithms REALLY Work Snowmass (Aspen), Colorado USA Saturday Dec 7th, 1996 ORGANIZERS: Jenny Orr Willamette University gorr@willamette.edu Klaus Muller GMD First, Germany klaus@first.gmd.de Rich Caruana Carnegie Mellon caruana@cs.cmu.edu OBJECTIVES: Using neural networks to solve difficult problems often requires as much art as science. Researchers and practitioners acquire, through experience and word-of-mouth, techniques and heuristics that help them succeed. Often these ``tricks'' are theoretically well motivated. Sometimes they're the result of trial and error. In this workshop we ask you to share the ``tricks'' you have found helpful. Our focus will be mainly regression and classification. WHAT IS A TRICK? A technique, rule-of-thumb, or heuristic that: - is easy to describe and understand - can make a real difference in practice - is not (yet) part of well documented technique - has broad application - may or may not (yet) have a theoretical explanation Examples of well known tricks include: early stopping, using symmetric sigmoids, on-line calculation of the largest eigenvalue of the Hessian without computing the hessian to determine optimal learning speed, ... POTENTIAL TOPICS: - architecture design: picking layers, nodes, connectivity, modularity, activation functions, ... - model parameters & learning rates, momentum, annealing schedules, speeding learning: on-line, batch, conjugate gradient, approximating the Hessian, ... - training/test sets: sizes, dealing with too much/little data, noisy and/or missing data, active sampling, skewed samples, ... - generalization: which smoothers/regularizers to use and when to use them, network capacity, learning rate, net initialization, output representation, SSE vs. cross-entropy, ... - training problems: symmetry breaking, bootstrapping large nets, no negative instances, ... WORKSHOP FORMAT: Our goal is to create an enjoyable, quick moving one-day workshop with lot's of ideas and discussion. Each three-hour session will have 5-10 short presentations (10 mins max) and 1-2 longer presentations (30 mins max). The long presentations will allow speakers to present collections of ``tricks'' focussed on particular topics such as how to speed up backprop, when and what regularization to use, ... The short presentations will give the rest of us an opportunity to present isolated ``tricks'' with a minimum of presentation overhead. To help keep things "light", we ask that short presentations use 5 or fewer slides. SUBMISSIONS: We already have a number of speakers lined up (see below), but we are looking for more contributions. If you'd like to give a presentation, please email a short (1 page or less) description of the trick(s) to gorr@willamette.edu. If you wish to discuss a single trick, the total presentation time will be 10 minutes, or less. If you wish to discuss a group of related tricks, please say so and briefly describe all the tricks, and the total presentation should be 20-30 minutes, or less. We will review the submissions and include as many as there is time for in the schedule. If possible, please discuss what the trick is used for, when it is and is not applicable, sample problems you have used it on, how well it seems to work in practice, and any explanation you have, theoretical or otherwise, for why it seems to work. Keep in mind that this is a workshop, and "tricks" do not have to be fully fleshed out methods with rigorous theoretical or empirical evidence. If you've found a technique that's sometimes useful, the odds are others will find it interesting and useful, too. In order to list your presentation in the workshop brochure, we need to have the title and abstract by September 27. IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for listing title in workshop brochure: 27 September, 1996 Final Deadline for submission of abstracts: 7 October, 1996 Notification of acceptance: 15 October, 1996 FOLLOW-UP TO WORKSHOP: To help insure that presenters get credit for divulging their tricks, we'll ask presenters to prepare concise, one page write-ups of their tricks. These will be compiled into a report and/or published on the web and made available to anyone interested. Tricks that as yet have no known theoretical explanation will be grouped together to form a set of open problems. We are also considering the possibility of publishing a collection of tricks as a short book or special journal issue. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: Yann LeCun, Larry Yaeger Hans Georg Zimmermann Patrice Simard Eric Wan Rich Caruana Nici Schraudolph Shumeet Baluja David Cohn General info about the Postconference workshops can be found on the NIPS homepage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS/ If you have any questions about this workshop, don't hesitate to contact one of the organizers. We look forward to seeing you in Snowmass! -Jenny, Klaus, and Rich. TOP-TEN REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD PRESENT A TRICK: 10: someone should get credit for the tricks we all end up using, it might as well be you (who's responsible for early stopping?) 9: so you can bond with others who discovered the same trick 8: because you couldn't get it on Letterman's Stupid Human Tricks 7: no one will believe you're an expert if you don't use tricks 6: your trick sucks, but you'll feel better using the other tricks you learn if you present something 5: so you show everyone how very clever you are 4: because you'll feel more comfortable using an unsupported trick if you can get others to use it, too 3: so those of us who see flaws in your tricks can flame you alive 2: you'll feel less guilty skiing if you present something at a workshop 1: because you really don't want to write a whole paper about it From greiner@scr.siemens.com Tue Sep 17 22:48:10 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 WAA22403 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:48:00 -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 WAA04601 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:47:55 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa06222; 17 Sep 96 17:12:42 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06190; 17 Sep 96 16:43:50 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa14328; 17 Sep 96 16:41:47 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17394; 17 Sep 96 14:57:37 EDT Received: from scr.siemens.com by CS.CMU.EDU id aa26576; 17 Sep 96 14:57:11 EDT Received: from eagle.scr.siemens.com (eagle.scr.siemens.com [129.73.6.59]) by scr.siemens.com (8.7.1/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA22471; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:55:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from greiner@localhost) by eagle.scr.siemens.com (8.7.5/8.6.6) id OAA28363; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 14:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609171854.OAA28363@eagle.scr.siemens.com> From: Russell Greiner To: ml@ics.uci.edu, colt@cs.uiuc.edu, uai@maillist.cs.orst.edu, connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, dbworld@cs.wisc.edu, ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca Subject: Research/Development Position CC: blanz@as1.scr.siemens.com The Adaptive Information and Signal Processing Department at Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. 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Send your resume to: Russell Greiner Siemens Corporate Research Inc. 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ 08540 From oreilly@flies.mit.edu Tue Sep 17 22:48:14 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 WAA22407 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:48:06 -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 WAA04603 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:48:00 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa06498; 17 Sep 96 19:23:03 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06496; 17 Sep 96 19:11:57 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa14408; 17 Sep 96 19:10:52 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id ah21170; 17 Sep 96 17:50:15 EDT Received: from FLIES.MIT.EDU by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa10054; 17 Sep 96 16:20:59 EDT Received: (from oreilly@localhost) by flies.mit.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) id QAA22328; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:20:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:20:47 -0500 Message-Id: <199609172120.QAA22328@flies.mit.edu> From: "Randall O'Reilly" To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: PhD Thesis Available Reply-To: oreilly@ai.mit.edu My PhD thesis is avialable for anonymous ftp downloading: ftp://hydra.psy.cmu.edu/pub/user/oreilly/oreilly_thesis.tar.gz it is 1,085,460 bytes and un-tars into roughly 6 meg of under 1 meg postscript files. -------------------------- The LEABRA Model of Neural Interactions and Learning in the Neocortex Randall C. O'Reilly Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition Department of Psychology Carnegie Mellon University There is evidence that the specialized neural processing systems in the neocortex, which are responsible for much of human cognition, arise from the action of a relatively general-purpose learning mechanism. I propose that such a neocortical learning mechanism can be best understood as the combination of error-driven and self-organizing (Hebbian associative) learning. This model of neocortical learning, called LEABRA (local, error-driven and associative, biologically realistic algorithm), is computationally powerful, has important implications for psychological models, and is biologically feasible. The thesis begins with an evaluation of the strengths and limitations of current neural network learning algorithms as models of a neocortical learning mechanism according to psychological, biological, and computational criteria. I argue that error-driven (e.g., backpropagation) learning is a reasonable computational and psychological model, but it is biologically implausible. I show that backpropagation can be implemented in a biologically plausible fashion by using interactive (bi-directional, recurrent) activation flow, which is known to exist in the neocortex, and has been important for accounting for psychological data. However, the interactivity required for biological and psychological plausibility significantly impairs the ability to respond systematically to novel stimuli, making it still a bad psychological model (e.g., for nonword reading). I propose that the neocortex solves this problem by using inhibitory activity regulation and Hebbian associative learning, the computational properties of which have been explored in the context of self-organizing learning models. I show that by introducing these properties into an interactive (biologically plausible) error-driven network, one obtains a model of neocortical learning that: 1) provides a clear computational role for a number of biological features of the neocortex; 2) behaves systematically on novel stimuli, and exhibits transfer to novel tasks; 3) learns rapidly in networks with many hidden layers; 4) provides flexible access to learned knowledge; 5) shows promise in accounting for psychological phenomena such as the U-shaped curve in over-regularization of the past-tense inflection; 6) has a number of other nice properties. --------------------------------------------- Note that I am now doing a postdoc at at MIT: Center for Biological and Computational Learning Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences E25-210, MIT Cambridge, MA 02139 oreilly@ai.mit.edu From amilcar@eden.dei.uc.pt Wed Sep 18 00:27:48 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 AAA23594 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:27:07 -0500 Received: from cs.uwa.oz.au (bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.11]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA05787 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:27:03 -0500 Received: from (parma.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.7]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id LAA22975; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:09:31 +0800 Message-Id: <199609180309.LAA22975@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: amilcar@eden.dei.uc.pt (Amilcar Cardoso) To: addistr@sis.port.ac.uk, Afcet.Administration@ibp.fr, ai-stats@watstat.uwaterloo.ca, alife@cognet.ucla.edu, annrules@fit.qut.edu.au, cogpsy@neuro.psy.soton.ac.uk, colt@cs.uiuc.edu (COLT list), connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, dietmar@cognition.iig.uni-freiburg.de (European CBR Newsletter), genetic-programming@cs.stanford.edu, hybrid-list@cs.ua.edu, ml@ics.uci.edu, mlnet@csd.abdn.ac.uk (MLnet Admin), nat@ura1507.univ-paris13.fr, neuron-request@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU, nl-kr@snyside.sunnyside.com (comp.ai.nlang-know-rep), nonlin-l@list.nih.gov, reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au (Reinforcement List), scivw-request@hitl.washington.edu (sci.virtual-worlds), www@sigart.acm.org (SIGART) Cc: ernesto@eden.dei.uc.pt Subject: CfP EPIA'97 [connectionists] Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 01:34:39 +0200 This CfP was sent to several mailing-lists. Please accept my apologies if you receive multiple copies. Amilcar Cardoso ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS EPIA'97 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Coimbra, Portugal October 6-9, 1997 Under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence The EPIA'97 Program Committee invites submissions of technical papers for the 8th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence which is to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, by October 6-9, 1997. As in previous issues ('89, '91, '93 and '95), EPIA'97 will be run as an international conference, English being the official language. The scientific program encompasses tutorials, invited lectures, parallel workshops, and paper presentations. Four well-known researchers will present invited lectures. The conference is devoted to all areas of Artificial Intelligence and will cover both theoretical and foundational issues and applications as well. ************************************************************** INVITED LECTURES Francisco Varela Luis Moniz Pereira (CNRS - France) (UNL - Portugal) Oskar Dressler Tom Mitchell (OCC'M Software GmbH - Germany) (CMU - USA) ************************************************************** TUTORIAL PROGRAM (Provisional) At the time of this CfP, the following tutorials are already confirmed: Daniel O'Leary (USC - USA), on AI and Finance Pedro Barahona (UNL - Portugal), on Constraint Programming Felix Costa (UL - Portugal), on Neurocomputing The final program will soon be announced. ************************************************************** CONTENT AREAS Original papers are solicited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to: o Agent-Oriented Programming o Automated Reasoning o Artificial Life o Belief Revision o Case-Based Reasoning o Common Sense Reasoning o Constraint Programming o Distributed AI o Expert Systems o Genetic Algorithms o Hybrid Systems o Intelligent Tutoring Systems o Knowledge Representation o Logic Programming o Machine Learning o Model-Based Reasoning o Natural Language Understanding o Neural Networks o Nonmonotonic Reasoning o Planning and Scheduling o Qualitative Reasoning o Robotics o Spatial Reasoning o Temporal Reasoning o Theorem Proving o Theory of Computation PROCEEDINGS As with previous conferences, proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series and will be available to participants. TIMETABLE Submission Deadline: March 17, 1997 Notification of Acceptance or Rejection: May 19, 1997 Camera-Ready Copy: June 16, 1997 SUBMISSIONS Authors must submit five (5) completed printed copies of their papers to the EPIA'97 Submission Address (see below). Fax or electronic submissions will not be accepted. Detailed instructions on the procedure and on the format are available at the EPIA'97 Web site. ELECTRONIC ABSTRACT In addition to submitting the paper copies, authors should send a short (200 words) electronic abstract of their paper to aid the reviewing process. Detailed instructions on the procedure and on the format are available at the EPIA'97 Web site. REVIEW OF PAPERS Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and clarity. Each paper will be cross-reviewed by three referees. Papers will be subject to blind peer review: reviewers will not be aware of the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their papers. Detailed instructions are available at the EPIA'97 Web site. Submitted papers must report original and previously unpublished work. MAILING LIST We have set up an automated mailing list facility to easily distribute up to date information to those who wish to submit papers and/or attend the conference. You may find instructions on how to add yourself to the mailing list at the EPIA'97 Web site. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS, PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Ernesto Costa (ernesto@dei.uc.pt) Amilcar Cardoso (amilcar@dei.uc.pt) Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal LOCAL CHAIR Jose Luis Ferreira (jlf@dei.uc.pt) Universidade de Coimbra - Portugal PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernardete Ribeiro (Portugal) Carlos Bento (Portugal) Carlos Pinto-Ferreira (Portugal) Cristiano Castelfranchi (Italy) Ernesto Morgado (Portugal) Eugenio Oliveira (Portugal) Gabriel Pereira Lopes (Portugal) Helder Araujo (Portugal) Helder Coelho (Portugal) John Self (UK) Larry Medsker (USA) Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal) Luis Monteiro (Portugal) Manuela Veloso (USA) Miguel Filgueiras (Portugal) Nuno Mamede (Portugal) Oskar Dressler (Germany) Pavel Brazdil (Portugal) Pedro Barahona (Portugal) Philippe Dague (France) Ramon de Mantaras (Spain) Rosa Vicari (Brazil) Stefano Nolfi (Italy) Stuart Shapiro (USA) Takeo Kanade (USA) Xue Mei Wang (USA) Yves Kodratoff (France) WORKSHOPS A Call For Workshops Proposals will be available at September 23, 1996. SUBMISSION ADDRESS INQUIRES ADDRESS EPIA'97 Dep. Eng. Informatica Universidade de Coimbra - Polo II Pinhal de Marrocos 3030 Coimbra, Portugal Voice: +351 (39) 7000004 Fax: +351 (39) 701266 Email: epia97@alma.uc.pt URL: http://alma.uc.pt:80/~epia97 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE English ************************************************************** WE ENVITE YOU TO VISIT THE EPIA'97 WEB SITE AT http://alma.uc.pt:80/~epia97 TO FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE CONFERENCE AND ON COIMBRA AND ITS HISTORICAL UNIVERSITY. ************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dep. Eng. Informatica tel: + 351 39 7000 000 Universidade de Coimbra, Polo II fax: + 351 39 701 266 Pinhal de Marrocos email: amilcar@dei.uc.pt 3030 Coimbra - PORTUGAL From mlittman@cs.duke.edu Wed Sep 18 00:28:01 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 AAA23598 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:27:56 -0500 Received: from cs.uwa.oz.au (bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.11]) by lucy.cs.wisc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id AAA05790 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 00:27:52 -0500 Received: from (parma.cs.uwa.oz.au [130.95.1.7]) by cs.uwa.oz.au (8.6.8/8.5) with SMTP id LAA22957; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:08:14 +0800 Message-Id: <199609180308.LAA22957@cs.uwa.oz.au> From: mlittman@cs.duke.edu (Michael Littman) To: reinforce@cs.uwa.edu.au, Connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: CFP: Computational Finance [connectionists] Date: Mon, 16 Sep 96 15:13:49 -0400 ALGORITHMICA Call For Papers: Special Issue on Computational Finance Editors: Ming Y. Kao, Pete Kyle, and Peter Lakner Scope of the Issue: Submissions are invited for a special issue of Algorithmica on algorithms for finance. Papers are solicited on all algorithmic aspects of finance, including but not limited to algorithms for asset trading, portfolio optimization, asset pricing, market forecasting and risk management. Submissions on topics strongly motivated by finance, but not of direct application, are also encouraged. Only work that contains rigorous analysis of algorithmic performance and complexity is sought. Theoretical work accompanied by experimental results is especially valued. Current surveys or reviews are also welcome. Important Dates: o Submission Deadline: June 1, 1997. o Acceptance Decision: by December 31, 1997. o Final Version Due: January 31, 1998. o Publication Date: tentatively by June 30, 1998. Electronic Submission: Submission by email is preferred. Please email a postscript file of your manuscript together with a plain text cover letter to kao@cs.duke.edu. Postal Submission: Please send six copies of a manuscript to the following address and specify in the cover letter that the submission is for the special issue on computational finance. Professor C. K. Wong Editor-in-Chief, Algorithmica Department of Computer Science Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, New Territories Hong Kong Additional information can be obtained by communicating with the special issue editors at the following addresses: o Ming-Yang Kao, Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. o Albert S. Kyle, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708. o Peter Lakner, Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY 10012. From jose@kreizler.rutgers.edu Wed Sep 18 22:19:46 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 WAA14888 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:19:40 -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 WAA23511 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 22:19:37 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa08895; 18 Sep 96 12:46:11 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa08892; 18 Sep 96 12:23:58 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15345; 18 Sep 96 12:23:51 EDT Received: from MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05002; 18 Sep 96 8:38:53 EDT Received: from kreizler.rutgers.edu by MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa19252; 18 Sep 96 8:38:29 EDT Received: (from jose@localhost) by kreizler.rutgers.edu (8.6.12+bestmx+oldruq+newsunq/8.6.6) id IAA26781 for Connectionists@MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:39:15 -0400 Received: from Messages.8.5.N.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.kreizler.rutgers.edu.sun4.51 via MS.5.6.kreizler.rutgers.edu.sun4_51; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:39:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:39:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Stephen J. Hanson" To: Connectionists@MAILBOX.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU Subject: COGNITIVE SCIENCE RESEARCH/LAB MANAGER Cognitive Science Research / System Administration We are looking for an individual to do research in Cognitive Science and to help administer the computing resources of the Psychology Department at Rutgers-University (Newark Campus). Resources include a network of Sun workstations, PCs and Macs, printers, pc-voice mail system and various peripheral devices. The individual will be responsible for installing and debugging software, and various routine system administration activites. At least half their time will be spent in research involving Cognitive Science especially related to Connectionist networks (or Neural Networks) and Computational Neuroscience. Familiarity with C programming, UNIX system internals (BSD, System V, Solaris, Linux) and Windows (95, NT) and local area networks running TCP/IP is required. Image processing or graphics programing experience are pluses. Candidates should possess either a BS/MS in Computer Science, Cognitive Science, AI or other relevant fields or equivalent experience. Salary will be dependent upon qualifications and experience. Rutgers University is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. Please send resumes and references to Pauline Mitchell Department of Psychology 101 Warren Street Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey, 07102 Direct email inquiries or resumes to: jose@kreizler.rutgers.edu Stephen J. Hanson Professor & Chair Department of Psychology Smith Hall Rutgers University Newark, NJ 07102 voice: 1-201-648-5095 fax: 1-201-648-1171 email: jose@kreizler.rutgers.edu From bruno@redwood.ucdavis.edu Thu Sep 19 10:31:35 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 KAA00743 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:31:15 -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 KAA00416 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:31:11 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa09203; 18 Sep 96 15:48:06 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa09201; 18 Sep 96 15:29:59 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa15407; 18 Sep 96 15:29:21 EDT Received: from RI.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa12308; 18 Sep 96 14:08:47 EDT Received: from guilder.ucdavis.edu by RI.CMU.EDU id aa08697; 18 Sep 96 14:06:20 EDT Received: from redwood.ucdavis.edu by guilder.ucdavis.edu (8.7.5/UCD3.5.9) id LAA15347; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:05:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: by redwood.ucdavis.edu (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI.AUTO) id LAA25112; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:05:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:05:25 -0700 From: "Bruno A. Olshausen" Message-Id: <199609181805.LAA25112@redwood.ucdavis.edu> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: TR: sparse coding and ICA The following TR is available via ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/1500-1999/AIM-1580.ps.Z Learning Linear, Sparse, Factorial Codes Bruno A. Olshausen In previous work (Nature, 381:607-609), an algorithm was described for learning linear sparse codes which, when trained on natural images, produces a set of basis functions that are spatially localized, oriented, and bandpass (i.e., wavelet-like). This note shows how the algorithm may be interpreted within a maximum-likelihood framework. Several useful insights emerge from this connection: it makes explicit the relation to statistical independence (i.e., factorial coding), it shows a formal relationship to the "independent components analysis" algorithm of Bell and Sejnowski (1995), and it suggests how to adapt parameters that were previously fixed. Related papers are available via http://redwood.ucdavis.edu/bruno/papers.html Bruno A. Olshausen Phone: (916) 757-8749 Center for Neuroscience Fax: (916) 757-8827 UC Davis Email: baolshausen@ucdavis.edu 1544 Newton Ct. WWW: http://redwood.ucdavis.edu Davis, CA 95616 From tlindroo@bennet.tutech.fi Fri Sep 20 05:12:49 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 FAA10671 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:33 -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 FAA14008 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:31 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa10893; 19 Sep 96 16:21:23 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10889; 19 Sep 96 15:49:12 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16537; 19 Sep 96 15:48:43 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27458; 19 Sep 96 3:48:49 EDT Received: from bennet.tutech.fi by CS.CMU.EDU id aa12682; 19 Sep 96 3:48:25 EDT Received: by bennet.tutech.fi (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA32604; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:42:34 +0300 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:42:34 +0300 From: Tommi Lindroos Message-Id: <9609190742.AA32604@bennet.tutech.fi> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: CFP: EANN 97 Sorry for this unsolicited mail. Since you are involved in neural networks, we think this conference might be of interest to you. International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN '97) Stockholm, Sweden 16-18 June 1997 First Call for Papers The conference is a forum for presenting the latest results on neural network applications in technical fields. The applications may be in any engineering or technical field, including but not limited to systems engineering, mechanical engineering, robotics, process engineering, metallurgy, pulp and paper technology, aeronautical engineering, computer science, machine vision, chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, electronics, civil engineering, geophysical sciences, biotechnology, and environmental engineering. Abstracts of one page (about 400 words) should be sent to eann97@kth.se by 21 December 1996 by e-mail in plain ASCII format. Please mention two to four keywords, and whether you prefer it to be a short paper or a full paper. The short papers will be 4 pages in length, and full papers may be upto 8 pages. Notification of acceptance will be sent around 15 January. Submissions will be reviewed and the number of full papers will be very limited. For information on earlier EANN conferences see the www pages at http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN95.html and http://www.abo.fi/~abulsari/EANN96.html Organising of a few special tracks has been confirmed so far: Computer Vision (J. Heikkonen, Jukka.Heikkonen@jrc.it), Control Systems (E. Tulunay, Ersin-Tulunay@metu.edu.tr), Hybrid Systems (D. Tsaptsinos, D.Tsaptsinos@kingston.ac.uk), Mechanical Engineering (A. Scherer, Andreas.Scherer@fernuni-hagen.de), Biomedical Systems (G. Dorffner, georg@ai.univie.ac.at), Process Engineering (R. Baratti, baratti@ndchem3.unica.it) Authors are encouraged to send the abstracts to the organisers of the special tracks, instead of eann97@kth.se, if your paper is relevant to one of the topics mentioned above. Advisory board J. Hopfield (USA) A. Lansner (Sweden) G. Sj\"odin (Sweden) Organising committee A. Bulsari (Finland) H. Liljenstr\"om (Sweden) D. Tsaptsinos (UK) International program committee (to be confirmed, extended) G. Baier (Germany) R. Baratti (Italy) S. Cho (Korea) T. Clarkson (UK) G. Dorffner (Austria) W. Duch (Poland) A. Gorni (Brazil) J. Heikkonen (Italy) F. Norlund (Sweden) A. Ruano (Portugal) C. Schizas (Cyprus) J. Thibault (Canada) E. Tulunay (Turkey) J. Demott (USA) Electronic mail is not absolutely reliable, so if you have not heard from the conference secretariat after sending your abstract, please contact again. You should receive an abstract number in a couple of days after the submission. From riegler@ifi.unizh.ch Fri Sep 20 05:12:52 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 FAA10673 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:35 -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 FAA14010 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:33 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ab10958; 19 Sep 96 16:41:15 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id ab10896; 19 Sep 96 15:50:17 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16548; 19 Sep 96 15:49:56 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa05783; 19 Sep 96 11:55:39 EDT Received: from josef.ifi.unizh.ch by CS.CMU.EDU id aa15587; 19 Sep 96 11:54:16 EDT Received: from ifimac03.ifi.unizh.ch by josef.ifi.unizh.ch with SMTP (PP) id <11236-0@josef.ifi.unizh.ch>; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:47:36 +0200 X-Sender: riegler@josef.ifi.unizh.ch Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:47:26 +0200 From: Alex Riegler Subject: 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 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ AI Lab * Department of Computer Science * University of Zurich Winterthurerstr. 190 * CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland * riegler@ifi.unizh.ch From lba@inesc.pt Fri Sep 20 05:12:54 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 FAA10676 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:37 -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 FAA14012 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:35 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id ac10958; 19 Sep 96 16:44:40 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10904; 19 Sep 96 15:55:45 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16562; 19 Sep 96 15:55:40 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa06102; 19 Sep 96 12:11:14 EDT Received: from inesc.inesc.pt by CS.CMU.EDU id aa15765; 19 Sep 96 12:10:17 EDT Received: from ilusion.inesc.pt by inesc.inesc.pt with SMTP; id AA10717 (/); Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:09:49 +0100 Received: from aleph by ilusion.inesc.pt (4.1/OSversion) id AA17249; Thu, 19 Sep 96 17:09:49 +0100 Sender: Luis.Almeida@inesc.pt Message-Id: <3241704B.61133CF4@inesc.pt> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 17:09:47 +0100 From: "Luis B. Almeida" Organization: INESC / IST X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.3_U1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Workshop on spatiotemporal models Below is the registration information for the Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems. Please distribute and/or post it as widely as you please. For further information, as well as for obtaining a postscript version of the registration form (e.g. if you want to post it), please consult: Workshop's web page: http://aleph.inesc.pt/smbas/ Mirror: http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/workshop.html (the mirror sometimes takes a few days to get updated) Luis B. Almeida INESC Phone: +351-1-3544607, +351-1-3100246 R. Alves Redol, 9 Fax: +351-1-3145843 P-1000 Lisboa Portugal e-mail: lba@inesc.pt or luis.almeida@inesc.pt ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems SMBAS November 6-8 1996 Sintra, Portugal REGISTRATION INFORMATION The SMBAS workshop will take place in Sintra, Portugal, beginning on November 6 afternoon and extending through November 8 afternoon. Three invited speakers are confirmed (Drs. Walter Freeman, Kumpati Narendra and Scott Kelso), and a fourth invited speaker may still be announced. Contributed papers are both from the biological and artificial systems areas, in approximately equal numbers. The list of accepted papers is given at the end of this message. Registrations are open until October 25. Participants who won't present papers are also welcome. The total number of participants is limited to 50. Among non-contributors, the registrations will be accepted on a first come first served basis. The registration prices are: Normal registration 50000 Portuguese escudos Student registration 30000 Portuguese escudos As an indication only, the current exchange rate is of about 150 Portuguese escudos per US dollar. The registration price includes participation in the workshop, proceedings book, lunches on Thursday and Friday and coffee breaks. The price also includes 17% VAT. The registration form is included below. Only registrations accompanied by payment are accepted. Students should also include a letter from their supervisor or university representative, written on the university letterhead, confirming their student status. FORMS OF PAYMENT CHECK - The check should be in Portuguese escudos, made payable to "INESC - SMBAS Workshop". Enclose the check with the registration form. BANK TRANSFER - Make the transfer in Portuguese escudos, to Banco Nacional Ultramarino Arco do Cego Account no. 001399550210009683498 Account holder: INESC Reference: SMBAS Workshop Enclose a copy of the bank transfer document with the registration form. Credit card payments cannot be accepted. FUNDING A grant of 100000 Portuguese escudos from Fundacao Oriente (Portugal) is available to be assigned to a participant from East Asia. Preference will be given to students. Other funding sources, especially the large grant from the Office of Naval Research (USA), are already reflected in the registration prices, which would otherwise be about 80000 escudos higher. LODGING The workshop will be held at the Hotel Tivoli Sintra. This hotel will have special room rates for workshop participants: Single room: 9700 Portuguese escudos per night Double room: 10900 Portuguese escudos per night (for two persons) The Tivoli hotel accepts individual registrations for double rooms, at half the price. In this case the participants will be paired by the hotel. The participants should reserve rooms directly with the hotel. Please mention that you are reserving for this workshop. Hotel Tivoli Sintra Praca da Republica = 2710 Sintra PORTUGAL Tel: +351-1-9233505 Fax: +351-1-9231572 A number of rooms has been allocated in advance at the Tivoli. Should the hotel become full, the Hotel Central is very close and has only slightly higher room rates: Hotel Central Largo Rainha D. Amelia, 35 = 2710 Sintra PORTUGAL Tel.: +351-1-9230963 = (this hotel has no fax) ==================== Registration form (cut here) ======================= Sintra Workshop on Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems November 6-8 1996, Sintra, Portugal Name____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Sex____________ Address_________________________________________________________________ City___________________________________ State__________________________ Postal/zip code_________________ Country_______________________________ Phone___________________________ Fax____________________________ E-mail_________________________ Type of registration (check as appropriate): __ Normal (50000 PTE) __ Student (30000 PTE) - enclose a letter from the supervisor or university representative, on university letterhead, confirming the student status Enclosed payment: Amount_________________ in Portuguese escudos (only the Portuguese currency is accepted) Form of payment: __ Check (enclose check with this form) __ Bank transfer (enclose a copy of the bank document) Checks should be made payable to "INESC - SMBAS Workshop" Bank transfers should be made to Banco Nacional Ultramarino Arco do Cego Account no. 001399550210009683498 Account holder: INESC Reference: SMBAS Workshop REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 25, 1996 Please mail this form, with the payment document to INESC SMBAS Workshop c/o Mrs. Ilda Ribeiro R. Alves Redol, 9 1000 Lisboa Portugal Tel: +351-1-3100313 Fax: +351-1-3145843 Registrations paid by bank transfer can also be sent by fax. In this case fax both the registration form and the bank document, and send the fax to Mrs. Ilda Ribeiro, fax no. +351-1-3145843. =================== (end of registration form) ======================= List of accepted papers METHODS OF TOPOGRAPHICAL TIME-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS OF EEG IN COARSE AND FINE TIME SCALE K. Blinowska, P. Durka, M. Kaminski - Warsaw University, POLAND W. Szelenberger - Warsaw Medical Academy, POLAND SPATIAL EFFECTS AND COMPETIVE COEXISTENCE T. Caraco - State University of New York, USA W. Maniatty and B. Szymanski - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA RST: A SPATIOTEMPORAL NEURAL NETWORK J.-C. Chappelier and A. Grumbach - ENST, FRANCE TRASIENT SYNAPTIC REDUNDANCY DURING SYNAPTOGENESIS DESCRIBED AS AN ISOSTATIC RANDOM STACKING OF NONPENETRATING HARD SPHERES F. Eddi, G. Waysand - Denis Diderot and P. & M. Curie Universities, FRANCE J. Mariani - P.& M. Curie University, FRANCE MODELLING THE PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS S. Eglen - University of Sussex, UK A SELF-ORGANIZING TEMPORAL PATTERN RECOGNIZER WITH APPLICATION TO ROBOT LANDMARK RECOGNITION N. Euliano and J. Principe - University of Florida, USA. P. Kulzer - University of Aveiro, PORTUGAL ON THE APPLICATION OF COMPETITIVE NEURAL NETWORKS TO TIME-VARYING CLUSTERING PROBLEMS A. Gonzalez, M. Gra=F1a, A. D'Anjou - Universidad del Pais Vasco, ESPA=D1A M. Cottrell - Universit\'{e} Paris I , FRANCE LOCALISATION AND GOAL-DIRECTED BEHAVIOUR FOR A MOBILE ROBOT USING PLACE CELLS K. Harris and M. Recce - University College London, UK BRIDGING LONG TIME LAGS BY WEIGHT GUESSING AND LONG SHORT TERM MEMORY S. Hochreiter - Technische Universitaet Muenchen, GERMANY J. Schmidhuber - IDSIA, SWITZERLAND COHERENT PHENOMENA IN THE DYNAMICS OF INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURAL FIELDS D. Horn and I. Opher - Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL SPATIOTEMPORAL TRANSITION TO EPILEPTIC SEIZURES: A NONLINEAR DYNAMICAL ANALYSIS OF SCALP AND INTRACRANIAL EEG RECORDINGS L. Iasemidis, S. Roper, J. Sackellares - University of Florida and V.A. Medical Center, USA J. Principe, J. Czaplewski, R. Gilmore - University of Florida, USA A CONTINUUM MODEL OF THE MAMMALIAN ALPHA RHYTHM D. Liley - Swinburne University of Technology, AUSTRALIA ANALOG COMPUTATIONS WITH TEMPORAL CODING IN NETWORKS OF SPIKING NEURONS W. Maass - Technische Universitaet Graz, AUSTRIA SELECTIVE LINEAR PREDICTION FOR RHYTHMIC ACTIVITY MODELLING N. Martins - Technical University of Lisbon and Polytechnic Institute of Set\'{u}bal, PORTUGAL A. Rosa - Technical University of Lisbon, PORTUGAL CEREBELLAR LEARNING OF DYNAMIC PATTERNS IN THE CONTROL OF MOVEMENT P. Morasso, V. Sanguineti and F. Frisone - University of Genova, ITALY A CHAOTIC OSCILLATOR CELL IN SUBTHRESHOLD CMOS FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL SIMULATION J. Neeley and J. Harris - University of Florida, USA A TEMPORAL MODEL FOR STORING SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERN MEMORY IN SHUNTING COOPERATIVE COMPETITIVE NETWORK C. Nehme - Brazilian Navy Research Institute, BRAZIL L. Carvalho and S. Mendes - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL SPATIO-TEMPORAL SPIKE PATTERN DISCRIMINATION BY NETWORKS OF SILICON NEURONS WITH ARTIFICIAL DENDRITIC TREES D. Northmore and J. Elias - University of Delaware, USA SYNCHRONIZATION IN NEURAL OSCILLATORS THROUGH LOCAL DELAYED INHIBITION G. Renversez - Centre de Physique Th\'{e}orique Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, FRANCE LEARNING REACTIVE BEHAVIOR FOR AUTONOMOUS ROBOT USING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS A. Sanchis, J. Molina and P. Isasi - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, SPAIN MODELING OF CELLULAR AND NETWORK NEURAL MECHANISMS FOR RESPIRATORY PATTERN GENERATION J. Schwaber, I. Rybak - DuPont Central Research, USA J. Paton - University of Bristol, UK FASTER TRAINING OF RECURRENT NETWORKS G. Silva, J. Amaral, T. Langlois and L. Almeida - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, PORTUGAL HUMAN PERCEPTION OF SUBTHRESHOLD, NOISE-ENHANCED VISUAL IMAGES E. Simonotto and M. Riani - Universit\'{a} di Genova, ITALY J. Twitti and F. Moss - University of Missouri at St. Louis, USA NEUROCONTROL OF INVERSE DYNAMICS IN FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION L. Spaanenburg, J. Nijhuis and A. Ypma - Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS J. Krijnen - Academic Hospital Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, MODELLED BY PRUNING IN A NEURAL NETWORK J. Vos, J. van Heijst and S. Greuters - University of Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS From Randy_Ringen@hmc.edu Fri Sep 20 05:12:56 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 FAA10678 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:39 -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 FAA14014 for ; Fri, 20 Sep 1996 05:12:37 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa11006; 19 Sep 96 17:01:23 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10999; 19 Sep 96 16:41:13 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16554; 19 Sep 96 15:51:39 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa07300; 19 Sep 96 13:10:23 EDT Received: from HMCADM.Admin.HMC.Edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa20881; 19 Sep 96 13:09:44 EDT Received: from [134.173.39.9] (CollRel4.Admin.HMC.Edu) by hmcadm.admin.hmc.edu (PMDF V5.0-5 #18017) id <01I9NQRI0W0W9QV3NV@hmcadm.admin.hmc.edu>; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:09:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 10:10:31 -0800 From: Randy Ringen Subject: Sejnowski Awarded Prestigious Wright Prize X-Sender: rringen@134.173.39.1 To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu, cneuro@bbb.caltech.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE NEWS RELEASE Office of College Relations, Claremont, California 91711-5990 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Randy Ringen or Leslie Baer SEPTEMBER 19, 1996 (909) 624-4146 Ref #: 95/96-47 HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE HONORS BRAIN RESEARCHER TERRENCE J. SEJNOWSKI AS 12TH RECIPIENT OF THE WRIGHT PRIZE October 25 lecture is free and open to the public CLAREMONT, Calif.-Harvey Mudd College is pleased to announce the winner of the 1996 Wright Prize for interdisciplinary study in science and engineering: Terrence J. Sejnowski, a computational neurobiologist, who is an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a professor at the at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and a professor of biology and physics at UC San Diego. Sejnowski will be awarded $15,000 on Friday, 7 p.m., October 25, in Galileo Hall on the Harvey Mudd College campus, when he will give his distinguished lecture, "The Century of the Brain." Admission is free and the event is open to the public. Sejnowski, the 12th Wright awardee, the joins the likes of physicist Freeman Dyson, physician-scientist Jonas Salk, and 1962 Nobel Prize-winning biologist Francis Crick, who were also honored. He is the first awardee selected under a new criteria, which seeks to honor up-and-coming, early-to-mid career researchers in multidisciplinary research in engineering or the sciences, rather than those already widely recognized for their accomplishments. Sejnowski seeks to understand "the computational resources of brains, from the biophysical to the systems levels," he said. His research focuses on how images seen through the eyes are represented in the brain, how memory is organized, and how vision is used to guide actions. As tools in his research, Sejnowski employs theoretical models on how the brain networks this information. He also studies the biophysics of the living brain. As part of the award festivities, Sejnowski will spend two days at Harvey Mudd College, offering the October 25 public lecture, as well as student seminars and informal exchanges with faculty on October 24. "The basic educational philosophy holds interdisciplinary study to be essential in furthering our understanding of science and engineering," said HMC President Henry E. Riggs. "The events surrounding the awarding of the prize give students and faculty alike an opportunity to exchange ideas with a young researcher whose work spans several fields," he said. "Beyond that," he added, "the lecture will present to the public the latest information on the exciting discoveries made concerning how the brain works." Sejnowski graduated summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with a B.S. in physics. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in physics from Princeton. After teaching at The Johns Hopkins University, he became a senior member and professor at the Salk Institute and a professor at UC San Diego. He has received numerous awards, including a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, WAS A Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology, and has delivered numerous honorary lectures at the University of Wisconsin; Cambridge University; the Royal Institution, London; and the International Congress of Physiological Sciences. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and coauthored one book. He is the editor-in-chief of "Neural Computation," published by the MIT Press, and serves on the editorial boards of 17 scientific journals. Harvey Mudd College, one of The Claremont Colleges, is an undergraduate coeducational institution of engineering, science, and mathematics that also places strong emphasis on humanities and the social sciences. The college's aim is to graduate engineers and scientists sensitive to the impact of their work on society. Harvey Mudd College ranks among the nation's leading schools in percentage of graduates who earn Ph.D. degrees. The college has been consistently ranked among the top engineering undergraduate specialty schools in the nation by U.S.News & World Report. In a recent study published in Change magazine, in which 212 colleges and universities were ranked, Harvey Mudd College is among an elite group of just 11 institutions that are classified as "High-High," rated outstanding for both their teaching and their research. -end- From nkasabov@commerce.otago.ac.nz Sat Sep 21 01:16:09 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 BAA25431 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:15:52 -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 BAA28636 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:15:50 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa13289; 20 Sep 96 20:22:29 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa13287; 20 Sep 96 20:03:20 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa17517; 20 Sep 96 20:03:15 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa24021; 17 Sep 96 20:44:22 EDT Received: from galadriel.otago.ac.nz by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa11186; 17 Sep 96 20:41:20 EDT Received: from jupiter.otago.ac.nz (jupiter.otago.ac.nz [139.80.180.14]) by galadriel.otago.ac.nz (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id MAA01304 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:41:01 +1200 (NZST) Received: from JUPITER/SpoolDir by jupiter.otago.ac.nz (Mercury 1.20); 18 Sep 96 12:41:02 +1100 Received: from SpoolDir by JUPITER (Mercury 1.20); 18 Sep 96 12:40:54 +1100 From: Nikola Kasabov Organization: University of Otago To: Connectionists-Request@cs.cmu.edu Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:40:53 -1200 Subject: A new text and research book from MIT Press Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <497E9002FD9@jupiter.otago.ac.nz> The MIT Press Foundations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Engineering by Nikola Kasabov Neural networks and fuzzy systems are different approaches to introducing human like reasoning to intelligent information systems. This text is the first to combine the study of these two subjects, their basics and their use, along with the symbolic AI methods and the traditional methods of data analysis, to build comprehensive artificial intelligence systems. In a clear and accessible style, Kasabov describes rule based, fuzzy logic, and connectionist techniques, and their combinations that lead to new techniques such as methods for rules extraction, fuzzy neural networks, hybrid systems, connectionist AI systems, chaotic neurons, etc. All these techniques are applied to a set of simple prototype problems, which makes comparisons possible. A particularly strong feature of the text is that it is replete with applications in engineering, business and finance. AI problems which cover most of the application oriented research in the field (pattern recognition, speech recognition, image processing, classification, planning, optimization, prediction, control, decision making, game simulation, chaos analysis) are discussed and illustrated with concrete examples. Intended both as a text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as a reference for researchers in the field of knowledge engineering, "Foundations of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, and Knowledge Engineering" has chapters structured for various levels of teaching and includes original work by the author along with the classical material. Data sets for the examples in the book as well as an integrated software environment that can be used to solve the problems and to do the exercises at the end of each chapter, have been made available on the World Wide Web. Nikola Kasabov is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Otago, New Zealand. 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For more information about our neural network activity at our Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (in Richland, Washington, USA), try http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/cie/neural/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From seung@physics.lucent.com Sat Sep 21 01:17:06 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 BAA25429 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:15:49 -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 BAA28634 for ; Sat, 21 Sep 1996 01:15:47 -0500 Received: from TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU by telnet-1.srv.cs.CMU.EDU id aa10958; 19 Sep 96 16:38:15 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by TELNET-1.SRV.CS.CMU.EDU id aa10896; 19 Sep 96 15:50:04 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa16543; 19 Sep 96 15:49:11 EDT Received: from CS.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa04626; 19 Sep 96 11:06:53 EDT Received: from ns.research.att.com by CS.CMU.EDU id aa15022; 19 Sep 96 11:06:21 EDT Received: from research.research.att.com by ns; Thu Sep 19 11:05:14 EDT 1996 Received: from physics.lucent.com by research; Thu Sep 19 11:03:17 EDT 1996 Received: from heungbu.div111.lucent.com by physics.lucent.com (4.1/TK07-31-96) id AA18960; Thu, 19 Sep 96 10:55:18 EDT From: Sebastian Seung Received: (from seung@localhost) by heungbu.div111.lucent.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id LAA09840; Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:03:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 11:03:46 -0400 Message-Id: <199609191503.LAA09840@heungbu.div111.lucent.com> To: connectionists@cs.cmu.edu Subject: preprints available on Web The following preprints can be found in http://portal.research.bell-labs.com/home/seung@physics/papers/ How the brain keeps the eyes still H. S. Seung To appear in PNAS The brain can hold the eyes still because it stores a memory of eye position. The brain's memory of horizontal eye position appears to be represented by persistent neural activity in a network known as the neural integrator, which is localized in the brainstem and cerebellum. Existing experimental data are reinterpreted as evidence for an attractor hypothesis, that the persistent patterns of activity observed in this network form an attractive line of fixed points in its state space. Line attractor dynamics can be produced in linear or nonlinear neural networks by learning mechanisms that precisely tune positive feedback. Unsupervised learning by convex and conic encoding D. D. Lee and H. S. Seung To appear in NIPS Unsupervised learning algorithms based on convex and conic encoders are proposed. The encoders find the closest convex or conic combination of basis vectors to the input. The learning algorithms produce basis vectors that minimize the reconstruction error of the encoders. The convex algorithm develops locally linear models of the input, while the conic algorithm discovers features. Both algorithms are used to model handwritten digits and compared with vector quantization and principal component analysis. The neural network implementations involve lateral connections, which mediate cooperative and competitive interactions and allow for the development of sparse distributed representations. Statistical mechanics of Vapnik-Chervonenkis entropy P. Riegler and H. S. Seung A statistical mechanics of learning is formulated in terms of a Gibbs distribution on the realizable labelings of a set of inputs. The entropy of this distribution is a generalization of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) entropy, reducing to it exactly in the limit of infinite temperature. Perceptron learning of randomly labeled patterns is analyzed within this formalism.