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Neuron Digest Volume 04 Number 15
Neuron Digest Sunday, 16 Oct 1988 Volume 4 : Issue 15
Today's Topics:
NIPS Early Registration is October 15
NIPS phone numbers
Send submissions, questions, address maintenance and requests for old issues to
"neuron-request@hplabs.hp.com" or "{any backbone,uunet}!hplabs!neuron-request"
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[[ Editor's note: Due to backlog, I didn't get this out earlier. Sorry
for those who missed the 15 Octovber deadline. However, you still can
register and attempt to plead your case. In any event, this promises to be
one of the best conferences relating to Neural Nets all year. Certainly,
the variety of attendees may be greater than some others. I will not
attend, but I certainly hope some of you readers will report on the
conference. -PM ]]
Subject: NIPS Early Registration is October 15
From: terry (Terry Sejnowski <terry>)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 88 21:40:56 -0400
***** Note: Deadline for early registration discounts is October 15 *****
Mail in registration form below:
IEEE Conference on "NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS -
NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC"
November 28 - December 1, 1988 (Mon-Thurs),
Sheraton Denver Tech Center, Denver, Colorado
with a Post Meeting Workshop, December 1-4
Keystone Resort, Colorado
The program stresses interdisciplinary interactions.
All papers have been thoroughly refereed.
Plenary lectures will bridge the gap between engineering and biology.
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REGISTRATION FORM:
NAME:
Last First Middle Initial
Business or Academic Title
Professional Affiliation
Street Address and Internal Mail Code
City State Zip
Country (if not U.S.) Telephone
FEES: (Registration includes Monday reception, Wednesday night banquet and
3 Continental breakfasts.)
Conference:
Early (before Oct. 15, 1988) $ 175
Late (after Oct. 15, 1988) $ 225
Early Full-time students, with I.D. $ 35
Late Full-time students $ 50
Registration includes the welcoming reception Monday night, the
banquet Wednesday night, and Continental breakfast all three days.
Registration for the post meeting workshop is separate.
Post Meeting Workshop (Deadline Oct. 15):
Post-meeting workshop $ 75
Post-meeting workshop, students $ 60
Enclosed is a check or money order in U.S. dollars for $________
(Please make check payable to the Neural Information Processing Conference)
Financial support may be available for students (see previous page)
Please mail form to:
Dr. Clifford Lau
ONR Code 1114SE
800 North Quincy Street
BCT #1
Arlington, Virginia 22217
FINANCIAL SUPPORT: Modest financial support for travel may be
available to students, young faculty, and some senior faculty changing
fields to work on neural networks. Those requesting support should
write a one page summary of their background, research interest,
and include a curriculum vitae, and mail to the Chairman,
Dr. Terry Sejnowski, Dept. of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD, 21218. Applicants will be notified of awards
(typically $250-500) by November 1.
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
More than 300 papers were submitted to the conference; each was
refereed by multiple referees. A number of invited talks will
survey active areas of research and lead the way to contributed
oral presentations. The following is the currently planned program.
Monday, November 28, 1988
8:00 PM: Wine and Cheese Reception, Denver Tech Center
Tuesday November 29, 1988
SESSION O1: Learning and Generalization
Invited Talk
8:30 O1.1: "Birdsong Learning", Mark Konishi, Division of
Biology, California Institute of Technology
Contributed Talks
9:10 O1.2: "Comparing Generalization by Humans and Adaptive
Networks", M. Pavel, M.A. Gluck, V. Henkle, Department of
Psychology, Stanford University
9:40 O1.3: "An Optimality Principle for Unsupervised Learn-
ing", T. Sanger, AI Lab, MIT
10:10 Break
10:30 O1.4: "Learning by Example with Hints", Y.S. Abu-
Mostafa, California Institute of Technology, Department of
Electrical Engineering
11:00 O1.5: "Associative Learning Via Inhibitory Search",
D.H. Ackley, Cognitive Science Research Group, Bell Communi-
cation Research, Morristown NJ
11:30 O1.6: "Speedy Alternatives to Back Propagation", J.
Moody, C. Darken, Computer Science Department, Yale Univer-
sity
12:00 Poster Session
SESSION O2: Applications
Tuesday Afternoon
Invited Talk
2:20 O2.1: "Speech Recognition," John Bridle, Royal Radar
Establishment, Malvern, U.K.
Contributed Talks
3:00 O2.2: "Modularity in Neural Networks for Speech Recog-
nition," A. Waibel, ATR Interpreting Telephony Research Lab-
oratories, Osaka, Japan
3:30 O2.3: "Applications of Error Back-propagation to Pho-
netic Classification," H.C. Leung, V.W. Zue, Department of
Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, MIT
4:00 O2.4: "Neural Network Recognizer for Hand-Written Zip
Code Digits: Representations,, Algorithms, and Hardware,"
J.S. Denker, H.P. Graf, L.D. Jackel, R.E. Howard, W.
Hubbard, D. Henderson, W.R. Gardner, H.S. Baird, I. Guyon,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ
4:30 O2.5: "ALVINN: An Autonomous Land Vehicle in a Neural
Network," D.A. Pomerleau, Computer Science Department,
Carnegie Mellon University
5:00 O2.6: "A Combined Multiple Neural Network Learning
System for the Classification of, Mortgage Insurance Appli-
cations and Prediction of Loan Performance," S. Ghosh, E.A.
Collins, C. L. Scofield, Nestor Inc., Providence, RI
8:00 PM Poster Session I
Wednesday, November 30, 1988 AM
SESSION O3: Neurobiology
Invited Talk
8:30 O3.1: "Cricket Wind Detection," John Miller, Depart-
ment of Zoology, UC Berkeley
Contributed Talks
9:10 O3.2: "A Passive, Shared Element Analog Electronic
Cochlea," D. Feld, J. Eisenberg, E.R. Lewis, Department of
Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, University of
California, Berkeley
9:40 O3.3: "Neuronal Maps for Sensory-motor Control in the
Barn Owl," C.D. Spence, J.C. Pearson, J.J. Gelfand, R.M.
Peterson, W.E. Sullivan, David Sarnoff Research Ctr, Subsid-
iary of SRI International, Princeton, NJ
10:10 Break
10:30 O3.4: "Simulating Cat Visual Cortex: Circuitry Under-
lying Orientation Selectivity," U.J. Wehmeier, D.C. Van
Essen, C. Koch, Division of Biology, California Institute of
Technology
11:00 O3.5: Model of Ocular Dominance Column Formation: Ana-
lytical and Computational, Results," K.D. Miller, J.B.
Keller, M.P. Stryker, Department of Physiology, University
of California, San Francisco
11:30 O3.6: "Modeling a Central Pattern Generator in Soft-
ware and Hardware:, Tritonia in Sea Moss," S. Ryckebusch, C.
Mead, J. M. Bower, Computational Neural Systems Program,
Caltech
12:00 Poster Session
Wednesday PM
SESSION O4: Computational Structures
Invited Talk
2:20 O4.1: "Symbol Processing in the Brain," Geoffrey
Hinton, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto
Contributed Talks
3:00 O4.2: "Towards a Fractal Basis for Artificial Intelli-
gence," Jordan Pollack, New Mexico State University, Las
Cruces, NM
3:30 O4.3: "Learning Sequential Structure In Simple Recur-
rent Networks," D. Servan-Schreiber, A. Cleeremans, J.L.
McClelland, Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon Uni-
versity
4:00 O4.4: "Short-Term Memory as a Metastable State
"Neurolocator," A Model of Attention", V.I. Kryukov, Re-
search Computer Center, USSR Academy of Sciences
4:30 O4.5: "Heterogeneous Neural Networks for Adaptive Be-
havior in Dynamic Environments," R.D. Beer, H.J. Chiel, L.S.
Sterling, Center for Automation and Intelligent Sys. Res.,
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
5:00 O4.6: "A Link Between Markov Models and Multilayer
Perceptions," H. Bourlard, C.J. Wellekens, Philips Research
Laboratory, Brussels, Belgium
7:00 PM Conference Banquet
9:00 Plenary Speaker
"Neural Architecture and Function," Valentino Braitenberg,
Max Planck Institut fur Biologische Kybernetik, West Germany
Thursday, December 1, 1988 AM
SESSION O5: Applications
Invited Talk
8:30 O5.1: "Robotics, Modularity, and Learning," Rodney
Brooks, AI Lab, MIT
Contributed Talks
9:10 O5.2: "The Local Nonlinear Inhibition Circuit," S.
Ryckebusch, J. Lazzaro, M. Mahowald, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, CA
9:40 O5.3: "An Analog Self-Organizing Neural Network Chip,"
J. Mann, S. Gilbert, Lincoln Laboratory, MIT, Lexington, MA
10:10 Break
10:30 O5.4: "Performance of a Stochastic Learning Micro-
chip," J. Alspector, B. Gupta, R.B. Allen, Bellcore,
Morristown, NJ
11:00 O5.5: "A Fast, New Synaptic Matrix For Optically Pro-
grammed Neural Networks," C.D. Kornfeld, R.C. Frye, C.C.
Wong, E.A. Rietman, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
11:30 O5.6: "Programmable Analog Pulse-Firing Neural Net-
works," Alan F. Murray, Lionel Tarassenko, Alister Hamilton,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
Edinburgh Scotland, UK
12:00 Poster Session
3:00 PM Adjourn to Keystone for workshops
CONFERENCE PROCEEDING: The collected papers of the conference, called
"Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems", Volume 1, will be
available starting April 1, 1989.
To reserve a copy, contact Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., Order
Fulfillment Department, P.O. Box 50490, Palo Alto, CA 94303, or call (415)
965-4081.
HOTEL REGISTRATION: The meeting in Denver is at the Denver Sheraton Hotel.
The Sheraton Denver Tech Center is a suburban hotel located in the
southeast corridor of Colorado in the exclusive Denver Technological Center
Business Park. The property is 18 miles from the Stapleton International
Airport, 3 miles from Centennial Airport and easily accessible by taxi or
local airport shuttle services.
TRANSPORTATION:
Air Travel to Denver: Stapleton Airport is one of the major hubs in the
U.S. and is served by numerous carriers, including United Airlines which
has direct flights or close connections from almost all of its cities to
Denver. As the "Official Airline" of the conference, United has pledged to
discount the fares for conference attendees to below that offered by any
other carrier (and is also making free tickets available for a drawing at
the end of the conference). For reservations and further details, call
1-800-521-4041 and refer to account number 405IA.
Ground Transport to Denver: (scheduled bus and van) - Shuttle service is
available from the Southeast Airporter every 30 minutes at Door 6 on the
baggage claim level, one way = $7 and round trip = $10.
Car Rental: We have an agreement with Hertz Rental at the Sheraton for
$20/day, 150 free miles/day with 30 cents/mile for each additional mile.
Refer questions and reservations to Kevin Kline at Hertz (1-800-654-3131).
POST MEETING WORKSHOP: December 1 - 4, 1988
Registration for the workshop is separate from the conference. It includes
2 continental breakfasts and one banquet dinner.
FORMAT:
Small group workshops will be held in the morning (7:30 - 9:30) and
afternoon (4:30 - 6:30). The entire group will gather in the evening (8:30
- 10:30 p.m.) to hear the workshop leaders' reports, have further
discussion and socialize. Last year this was a very successful format and
we will again be open to suggestions from partricipants.
Examples of the topics to be covered are Rules and Connectionist Modeling,
Advances in Speech Recognition, New Experimental Methods, (especially
optical recording with voltage sensitive dyes), Comparison of Hidden Markov
vs. Neural Network Models, Complexity Issues, Neural Network vs.
Traditional Classifiers, Real Neurons as Compared with Formal Neurons,
Applications to Temporal Sequence Problems.
Workshop Location: Keystone Resort will be the site of Neural Information
Processing Systems workshops. Keystone Mountain is 70 miles west of Denver
and offers the finest early season skiing in the Nation. Keystone Resort
is a full service resort featuring world class skiing in addition to
amenities including 11 swimming pools, indoor tennis, ice skating, 15
restaurants and a Village. Early December at Keystone provides an
outstanding skiing value. IEEE has been able to secure to the following
lodging rates.
Accommodations:
"Keystone Lodge":
Single - 1 person $ 69.00
Double - 2 people $ 79.00
Condominiums
Studio Condominium - 1 to 2 people $105.00
1 Bedroom Condominium - 1 to 4 people $130.00
These rates are per night and do not include 5.2% sales tax or 4.9% local
surcharge. Please add $12.00 per person for persons over the stated
levels. Attendance will be limited, and rooms not reserved by October 15th
will be released back to the Keystone Resort. Keystone will extend
discounted group lift tickets to IEEE workshop attendees for $17 per day.
In addition, Keystone offers Night Skiing on over 200 acres of lighted
terrain for $9 when extending your day ticket.
Accommodations at Keystone may be reserved by calling 1-800-222-0188.
When making your reservation, please refer to the group code DZ0IEEE to
obtain the special conference rates.
Transportation is available from the meeting site (the Sheraton Denver Tech
Center) to Keystone and then from Keystone to Denver Stapleton
International Airport, for $23 one way, or $46 round trip. Reservations
can be made by completing the reservation form or by calling Keystone
Resort at 1-800-451-5930.
Hertz Rental cars are available at the Sheraton Denver Tech Center.
Weekend rates are available. To reserve a Hertz rental car, call
1-800-654-3131. For those driving to Keystone, follow I-70 west to Exit
205, then take Highway 6 five miles west to Keystone.
Word about Skiing at Summit County in December
Keystone is joined by three other ski areas to compose Ski The Summit,
Arapahoe Basic, Breckenridge, and Copper Mountain. All the areas are
within 1/2 hour of each other and can be accessed by using the
complimentary Summit Stage.
Keystone features the largest snowmaking system in the West and
traditionally has mid season conditions by December 1st. A Keystone lift
ticket offers access to the three mountains; Keystone, the expert challenge
of North Peak, and the Legend Arapahoe Basin. Keystone offers complete
resort facilities including ski rental, ski school, nursery and mountain
restaurants.
Early December in Colorado is known as time for good skiing and minimal
lift lines.
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Subject: NIPS phone numbers
From: terry@cs.jhu.edu (Terry Sejnowski <terry@cs.jhu.edu>)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 88 09:48:39 -0400
Rooms should be reserved at the Denver Tech Center (800-552-7030) and at
Keystone (800-222-0188). There are a limited number reserved for the
meeting at a discount rate on a first-come first-serve basis.
A tentative list of topics and leaders for the post- conference workshop at
Keystone includes:
chair topic
H. Gigley Rules and Connectionist Modelling
A. Waibel Speech, especially NN's vs HMM's
A. Grinvald Imaging techniques in Neurobiology
I. Parberry Computational Complexity Issues
M. Carter Fault Tolerance in Neural Networks
C. Lau Evaluation Criteria for Neural Network Demonstrations
If you want to chair a session contact Scott
Kirkpatrick, program chairman: KIRK@ibm.com
Terry
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