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Neuron Digest Volume 01 Number 03
NEURON Digest 12 DEC 1986 Volume 1 Number 3
Topics in this digest --
Conferences - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS
Comments - Neural net research &
CONNECTIONISTS mailing list &
Blurb from ACM SIGART Newsletter 10/86
Queries - Taxonomy question.
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
IEEE FIRST ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS
San Diego, California
June 21-24, 1987
CHARIMAN
Stephen Grossberg / Teuvo Kohonen (International)
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Stephen Grossberg, John Hopfield, Tuevo Kohonen, Carver Mead,
Bernard Widrow
SESSIONS
Network Architectures -
Michael Cohen (Boston University) /
Sun-ichi Amari (University of Tokyo)
Learning Algorithms -
Bernard Widrow (Stanford University) /
James Anderson (Brown University
Self Organization -
Teuvo Kohonen (Technical University Helsinki) /
Stephen Grossberg (Boston University)
Adaptive Resonance -
Gail Carpenter (Northeastern University)
Cooperative & Competitive Network Dynamics -
Morris Hirsch (University of California, Berkeley)
Neurobiological Connections -
George Sperling (New York University)
Congnitive Science Connections -
David Rumelhart (University of California, San Diego) /
David Zipser (University of California, San Diego)
Electrical Neurocomputers -
Robert Hecht-Nielsen (Hecht-Nielsen Neurocomputer Corp) /
Andrew Penz (Texas Instruments, Inc.)
Optical Neurocomputers -
Joseph Goodman (Stanford University) /
Clark Guest (University of California, San Diego)
Knowledge Processing -
Bart Kosko (VERAC Corp.)
Vision -
Kunihiko Fukushima (NHK Labs) /
Ennio Mingolla (Boston University)
Speech Recognition & Synthesis -
Jeffrey Ellman (University of California, San Diego) /
David Stork (Clark University)
Robotics -
Allen Stubberud (University of California, Irvine) /
Behnam Bavarian (University of California, Irvine) /
Combinatorial Optimization -
Harold Szu (Naval Research Laboratory)
Novel Applications -
Lee Giles (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) /
Charles Kellum (Department of Defense)
TUTORIALS
1) Associative and Cooperative/Competitive Mechanisms in Neural
Networks - Stephen Grossberg
2) Self-Organizing Maps - Teuvo Kohonen
3) Adaptive Resonance Networks - Gail Carpenter
4) Neurobiogy Review - George Sperling
5) Associative Memory - Bart Kosko
6) Parallel Distributed Processing - David Rumelhart
7) Neural Networks for Adaptive Robotics - Dan Bullock
8) Optical Neurocomputer Design - Clark Guest
9) Neural Networks for Computational Vision - Ennio Mingolla
10) Knowledge Processing - Bart Kosko
11) Speech Processing = Terrence Sjnowski
12) Applications of Neurocomputers - Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Each tutorial will last 2 hours and is repeated. Attendence is
limited. Only registered conference participants may register
for tutorials.
REGISTRATION FEES
$250 (US) up to Jan. 31, 1987
$300 (US) up to June 1, 1987 (proceedings included)
$350 (US) after June 1, 1987 (proceedings included)
IEEE members 10% discount (membership # required)
$135 (US) single day registration (no proceedings)
TUTORIAL REGISTRATION
$150 (US) each tutorial
$500 (US) 4 tutorials
Mail Registration form [name, address, org,... MG]
and (US) check to:
Nomi Feldman
Conference Coordinator
3770 Tansy Stret
San Diego, CA 92121
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel
1380 Harbor Island Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 692-2265
$95 (US) per night.
AIRLINE TRANSPORTATION
American Airlines offers 40% discount,
call (800) 433-1790, mention STAR FILE S 71947
EXHIBITS
Some booths still available
Contact:
Richard Rea
Arinc Research
4055 Hancock Street
San Diego, CA 92110
ALL CONTRIBUTING PAPERS
Deadline February, 1987
Submit 4 copies
Send to:
Maureen Caudill
ICNN 10615G Tierrasanta Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92124
(619) 485-1809
FURTHER INFORMATION
Contact Nomi Feldman (address above)
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From: TILDE::"CBROWNST%NOTE.NSF.GOV@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA" 12-DEC-1986 11:42
To: neuron-request%TI-CSL@RELAY.CS.NET
Subj: Neural net research
Count me in. NSF supports connectionist, neural, and related research
through several programs. The Division of Information, Robotics and
Intelligent Systems has invested several $m over the past couple of
years; The Division of Behavioral and Neural Sciences has supported
such work for a decade; a new program is just starting in the Engineering
Directorate. Proposals for all are on an unsolicited basis. They each have
their own "flavor", roughly being computer-science, neuropsych, and electrical
engineering, but don't worry too much about fine distinctions, and are eager
to work together on very large of multi-disciplinary projects. I'll be happy
to respond to inquiries. The overall committment of NSF to this field is
directly related to the quality and quantity of proposals.
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[The October 1986 edition of the ACM's SIGART Newsletter (Special
Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence) includes three items
of interest for our group. MG]
The first is an article titled "Toward Expert Systems on a Chip"
by Looney, C. G. and Alfize, A.R.
The other items are dissertation reports:
ROUTH, RICHARD LEROY. Air Force Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 1985, 414 pages. Cortical thought theroy: a
working model of the human gestalt mechanism. DAI
V46(10), Sec B, pp3518. University Microfilms Order
Number ADG85-28149. Computer Science.
SHASTRI, LOKENDRA. The University of Rochester Ph.D.
1985, 173 pages. Evidential reasoning in semantic
networks: a formal theory and its parallel implemen-
tation. DAI V46(10), Sec B, pp3519. University
Microfilms Order Number ADG85-28562. Computer
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From: TILDE::"DT50%A.CS.CMU.EDU@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA" 6-DEC-1986 23:39
To: neuron@ti-csl.csnet@RELAY.CS.NET
Subj: CONNECTIONISTS mailing list
Since someone announced the existence of the CONNECTIONISTS mailing list on
this digest, I have been getting requests for information from all sorts of
people. CONNECTIONISTS is a restricted, non-moderated mailing list. It is
open only to active researchers in the field (i.e., people who have
published papers on connectionism or related topics), and their graduate
students and postdocs. We are trying to restrict the message traffic to
highly technical issues, and avoid philosophical flaming or requests for
basic information from people who just learned about the field yesterday.
The message traffic is very light, by design.
It's great that Mike Gately has set up the NEURON digest to meet the needs
of a broader audience. Many people will probably subscribe to both. If you
would like to subscribe to CONNECTIONISTS and you have the required
credentials, send mail to CONNECTIONISTS-REQUEST@C.CS.CMU.EDU and include
your full name and a one-sentence description of your research. New
subscribers are welcome. Note: if you sent in a request in the last few
days, please resend it with the above information. Thanks.
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From: "NEURON@TI-CSL.CSNET"
Subj: Taxonomy queston.
[As a final entry in this edition of NEURON, I would like to
stimulate some conversation by asking for any comments on the
following taxonomy which I have been thinking about. MG]
Artificial Intelligence -
|- Search Techniques
|- Pattern Matching
|- Knowledge Representation
|- Logic Based Systems
| (Expert Systems, Inference,
| Deduction, Production Systems,
| much more here)
|- Signal Processing
| (Vision, Speech)
|- Natural Language Research
|- Robotics
|- Connectionism -
|- Locally Coupled Systems
| (Cellular Automata)
|- Globally Couples Systems
| (Neural Networks,
| Society(?))
Have I mixed too many modes? Is each one necessary?, sufficient?
Can all the entries above Connectionism be classified as symbolic
processing?
End of NEURON Digest
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