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Neuron Digest Volume 07 Number 13
Neuron Digest Wednesday, 20 Mar 1991 Volume 7 : Issue 13
Today's Topics:
Summer Position
Job Available - San Francisco Bay area
NIPS Call for Papers
NIPS-91 Workshop
CNE Workshop on Emotions
AISB 91
ANNA-91 Conference, May 29-31, 1991
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Subject: Summer Position
From: Lee Giles <giles@fuzzy.nec.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 13:52:01 -0500
NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J. has available a 3 month summer
research and programming position. The research emphasis will be on
exploring the computational capabilities of recurrent neural networks.
The successful candidate will have a background in neural networks and
strong programming skills in the C/Unix environment. Computer science
background preferred. Interested applicants should send their resumes by
mail, fax, or email to the address below.
The application deadline is March 25, 1991. Applicants must show
documentation of eligibility for employment. Because this is a summer
position, the only expenses to be paid will be salary. NEC is an equal
opportunity employer.
C. Lee Giles
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
Internet: giles@research.nj.nec.com
UUCP: princeton!nec!giles
PHONE: (609) 951-2642
FAX: (609) 951-2482
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Subject: Job Available - San Francisco Bay area
From: Andras Pellionisz -- SL <pellioni@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 10:00:43 -0800
JOB AVAILABLE
PLEASE POST
Neural Network Research Position Available Effective ASAP
Place: NASA Ames Research Center
Biomedical Research Facility
Moffett Field, Mountain View
San Francisco South Bay Area
Area: Neural Network Software Development for Transputer-
Based (Macintosh-Hosted) Neurocomputer
Description:
When the present wave of enthusiasm with neurocomputing will wane, two
key areas of research will emerge substantially strengthened. Computer
science and technology will focus on parallel processing using more and
more advanced generations of neurochips. The basic science behind
neurocomputing, the biophysics (neurophysics) of biological neural nets
will focus on revealing the mathematical language intrinsic to brain
function.
The approach pursued by this PI combines these two aspects. During the
last decade, the PI introduced and developed a geometrical approach to
biological neural nets. It is already evident that some sensorimotor
systems (especially the vestibulo-cerebellum that is nature's best
neurocomputer to fast, parallel and gracefully degrading control of
navigation and flight) manifest a non-conventional intrinsic functional
geometry. Two consequences of this fact are obvious: (1) Basic research
(tied to system neuroscience) is necessary to reveal the mathematical
properties of neural geometry (which includes non-Euclidean metrical,
fractal and chaotic geometries). (2) Neurocomputers have to be developed
that explore and use properties of such geometries that are evidently
advantageous to natural neurocomputing.
Help wanted for this research to set up the basic software system for
such a neurocomputer being developed. It will have the dual purpose (1)
Fast, on-line analysis of multi-electrode data from the
vestibulocerebellar biological neural nets, in order to reveal functional
geometry of an existing (natural) navigation and flight control
neurocomputer, (2) Implementation of neural net algorithms (e.g.
geometrical transformation of generalized vectors expressed in intrinsic
systems of coordinates) in functional spaces that are not necessarily
restricted to Euclidean geometries.
Required Qualifications: Under ongoing agreement of NASA Ames with San
Jose University, part-time work is available during the academic year and
full-time during vacation periods. To qualify for the program, applicants
must meet the following criteria:
(1) Be students in good standing above the Freshman level at any
accredited institution of higher education in the US
or
(2) Instructors, professors or research staff members at
accredited colleges or universities.
The ideal candidate for this job is a University student (e.g. at
Stanford or UC Santa Cruz) who is experienced with C programming on the
Macintosh, has experience and/or interest in parallel processing
(preferably with Occam/Transputers) and would like in his/her career to
pursue long-term research in the field of neurocomputing.
For more information and applications please contact:
Andras J. Pellionisz
NASA Ames Res. Ctr.
Biomedical Research Facility
Mail Stop 261-3
Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
E-mail: pellioni@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
Telephone: (415) 604-4821
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Subject: NIPS Call for Papers
From: John Pearson W343 x2385 <jcp@vaxserv.sarnoff.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 91 14:58:54 -0500
CALL FOR PAPERS
Neural Information Processing Systems
-Natural and Synthetic-
Monday, December 2 - Thursday, December 5, 1991
Denver, Colorado
This is the fifth meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference
which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer
scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians
interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation.
There will be an afternoon of tutorial presentations (Dec 2)
preceding the regular session and two days of focused workshops
will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 6-7). Major categories and
examples of subcategories for paper submissions are the
following;
Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological
Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise
in neural computation, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics.
Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory,
Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and
Statistics, Approximation Theory.
Implementation and Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software
Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor
Design and Benchmarks.
Algorithms and Architectures: Learning Algorithms,
Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis
Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance
Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization,
Genetic Algorithms.
Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and
Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning.
Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion Processing,
Image Coding and Classification.
Speech and Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding,
and Synthesis, Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization,
Nonlinear Noise Removal.
Control, Navigation, and Planning Navigation and Planning,
Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning,
Robotic Motor Control, Process Control.
Applications Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial
and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein
Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems.
Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will
be held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of
presented papers will be published. Submission Procedures:
Original research contributions are solicited, and will be
carefully refereed. Authors must submit six copies of both a
1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single-
page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results
postmarked by May 17, 1991. Accepted abstracts will be published
in the conference program. Summaries are for program committee
use only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first
summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation
and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if
appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications-
Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include
addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the
abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be
addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category
information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies,
author addresses, or are late.
Mail Submissions To:
Stephen J. Hanson
NIPS*91 Submissions
Siemens Research Center
755 College Road East
Princeton NJ, 08540
Mail For Registration Material To:
NIPS*91 Registration
Siemens Research Center
755 College Road East
Princeton, NJ, 08540
All submitting authors will be sent registration material
automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the
correspondence author only.
NIPS*91 Organizing Committee: General Chair, John Moody, Yale U.;
Program Chair, Stephen J. Hanson, Siemens Research & Princeton
U.; Publications Chair, Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Laboratory;
Publicity Chair, John Pearson, SRI, David Sarnoff Research
Center; Treasurer, Bob Allen, Bellcore; Local Arrangements, Mike
Mozer, University of Colorado; Program Co-Chairs:, David Ackley,
Bellcore; Pierre Baldi, JPL & Caltech; William Bialek, NEC; Lee
Giles, NEC; Mike Jordan, MIT; Steve Omohundro, ICSI; John Platt,
Synaptics; Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute; David Stork, Ricoh &
Stanford; Alex Waibel, CMU; Tutorial Chair: John Moody, Workshop
CoChairs: Gerry Tesauro, IBM & Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM; Domestic
Liasons: IEEE Liaison, Rodney Goodman, Caltech; APS Liaison, Eric
Baum, NEC; Neurobiology Liaison, Tom Brown, Yale U.; Government &
Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC; Overseas Liasons: Mitsuo
Kawato, ATR; Marwan Jabri, University of Sydney; Benny Lautrup,
Niels Bohr Institute; John Bridle, RSRE; Andreas Meier, Simon
Bolivar U.
DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 17, 1991
please post
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Subject: NIPS-91 Workshop
From: John Pearson W343 x2385 <jcp@vaxserv.sarnoff.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 91 15:12:52 -0500
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
NIPS*91 Post-Conference Workshops
December 6 and 7, 1991
Vail, Colorado
Request for Proposals
Following the regular NIPS program, workshops on current topics
on Neural Information Processing will be held on December 6 and
7, 1991, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals
interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited.
Past topics have included: Rules and Connectionist Models;
Speech; Vision; Sensory Biophysics; Neural Network Dynamics;
Neurobiology; Computational Complexity Issues; Fault Tolerance in
Neural Networks; Benchmarking and Comparing Neural Network
Applications; Architectural Issues; Fast Training Techniques;
Control; Optimization, Statistical Inference, Genetic Algorithms;
VLSI and Optical Implementations; Integration of Neural Networks
with Conventional Software.
The format of the workshop is informal. Beyond reporting on past
research, the goal is to provide a forum for scientists actively
working in the field to freely discuss current issues of concern
and interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the
afternoon of both days, with free time in between for the ongoing
individual exchange or outdoor activities. Specific open and/or
controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop
topics. Individuals interested in chairing a workshop must
propose a topic of current interest and must be willing to accept
responsibility for their group's discussion. Discussion leaders'
responsibilities include: arrange brief informal presentations
by experts working on this topic, moderate or lead the
discussion, and report its high points, findings and conclusions
to the group during evening plenary sessions, and in a short (2
page) summary.
Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short
proposal for a workshop of interest by May 17, 1991. Proposals
should include a title and a short description of what the
workshop is to address and accomplish. It should state why the
topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed
and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition,
please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair,
list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of
interest.
Mail submissions to:
Dr. Gerald Tesauro, Co-Chair,
Attn: NIPS91 Workshops,
IBM Research
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA
Name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail net address (if
applicable) must be on all submissions.
Workshop CoChairs: G. Tesauro & S. Kirkpatrick, IBM
PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 17,1991
Please Post
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Subject: CNE Workshop on Emotions
From: Jean-Marc Fellous <fellous%pipiens.usc.edu@usc.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 13:39:48 -0800
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** C.N.E W O R K S H O P O N E M O T I O N S **
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The Center for Neural Engineering of the University of Southern
California is happy to announce that its student Workshop on Emotions
will be held Monday March 18th from 8.30am to 4.00pm in the Hedco
Neuro-Science Building Auditorium (on U.S.C campus).
The papers presented will be the following:
Affect versus Cognitive-repair Behaviors.
Sharon Ruth Gross - U.S.C (Social Psychology)
A Mathematical representation of Emotions.
Charles Rapp - Illinois Institute of Technology (Computer Science).
Cognitive and Emotional disorders in Parkinson's Disease.
Peter Dominey - U.S.C (C.N.E, Gerontology).
Cognitive-Emotional interaction using subsymbolic paradigm.
Aluizio Fausto Ribeiro Araujo - University of Sussex (U.K)
(School of cognitive and Computing Sciences)
Emotional expressions conceptualized as uniquely effective communication
devices
Heidi M. Lincer - U.S.C (Psychology).
Taxi world: Computing Emotions.
Clark Eliott - Northwestern University.
(Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences).
Zeal: A Sociological perspective on Emotion, cognition and organizational
structure.
Gerardo Marti - U.S.C (Gerontology, Sociology)
In addition, the following papers have been accepted but will not be
presented orally during the Workshop. They will be put on loan during
the Workshop.
Emotions and autonomous machinery.
Douglas A. Kerns - California Institute of Technology (Electrical
Engineering).
Representation, Action, and Emotion.
Michael Travers - M.I.T (Media-Lab).
Toward an Emotional Computer: Models of Emotions.
Jean-Marc Fellous - U.S.C (C.N.E Computer Science)
There will not be any registration fees but, as to get an estimation of
the number of persons attending the Workshop, interested people are
invited to announce their attendance by email (or surface mail). We
remind the participants that this event being a Workshop not a Conference
they are strongly encouraged to participate to the debates by their
comments and questions to the speakers.
Thank you for forwarding this announcement to potentialy interested
persons/instituions/mailing_lists.
Further informations requests (and email registration) can be addressed to
Jean-Marc FELLOUS
Center For Neural Engineering
University of Southern California
U.S.C - University Park
Los Angeles CA 90089-2520
U.S.A
Tel: (213) 740-3506
Fax: (213) 746-2863
email: fellous@rana.usc.edu
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Subject: AISB 91
From: B M Smith <bms@dcs.leeds.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 12:14:13 +0000
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* A I S B 9 1 *
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UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK
16 - 19 APRIL 1991
TUTORIAL PROGRAMME 16 APRIL
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME 17-19 APRIL
with sessions on:
* Distributed Intelligent Agents
* Situatedness and Emergence in Autonomous Agents
* New Modes of Reasoning
* The Knowledge Level Perspective
* Theorem Proving
* Machine Learning
Programmes and registration forms are now available from:
Barbara Smith
AISB91 Local Organizer
School of Computer Sudies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
email: aisb91@ai.leeds.ac.uk
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Subject: ANNA-91 Conference, May 29-31, 1991
From: /PN=HARRY.ERWIN/O=TRW/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com
Date: 01 Mar 91 12:27:00 +0000
ANNA 91 (Analysis of Neural Network Applications Conference) is the first
of a series of conferences on the application of neural network
technology to real-world problems. This is shaping up to be a very
exciting single-track conference at George Mason University in Fairfax,
Virginia, that is organized around the problem-solving process: domain
analysis, design criteria, analytic approaches to network definition,
evaluation methods, and lessons learned. There will be two full-day
tutorials on May 29th, addressing both fundamentals and advanced topics,
followed by two days of presentations and panel sessions on May 30-31.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. James Anderson of Brown University, Dr.
Paul Werbos of the National Science Foundation will give the luncheon
address on the first day, and Dr. Oliver Selfridge from GTE Laboratories
will chair the rapporteur panel. Two panel sessions have also been
scheduled: the first, chaired by Dr. Eugene Norris of George Mason
University, will look back at the history of the technology, and the
second, chaired by Dr. Jerry LR Chandler of the National Institute for
Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will explore the probable state of the
technology in the early 21st century.
George Mason University is conveniently located near Dulles Airport in
the Washington, D.C., area. Attendance at the conference will be limited
by facility space, and reservations will be processed in order of
arrival. Sponsors of the conference are ACM SIGART and ACM SIGBDP in
cooperation with the International Neural Network Society and the
Washington Evolutionary Systems Society. Institutional support provided
by George Mason University and the National Institutes of Health, and
support by American Electronics Inc., CTA Inc., IKONIX, and TRW/Systems
Division.
For a copy of the advance program, write:
Toni Shetler, ANNA-91 Conference Chair
TRW Systems
FVA6/3444
P. O. Box 10400
Fairfax, VA 22031
Internet: /C=US/ADMD=TELEMAIL/O=TRW/G=ANTOINETTE/S=SHETLER/@sprint.com
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