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Neuron Digest Volume 08 Number 06
Neuron Digest Wednesday, 30 Oct 1991 Volume 8 : Issue 6
Today's Topics:
Computational Neuroscientist post
AI tools and Economics???
Incremental networks?
Positions in CMU Speech Group
Economic and Financial Modeling
ANN tutorial packages from academic sources?
Multi-modal nets and transputers?
Open position Cognitive Psychology
sharing a room at the Sheraton for NIPS 91
Research Fellowship (UK)
ANN Basic Info Info & Announcement
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Subject: Computational Neuroscientist post
From: David Willshaw <david@cns.edinburgh.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 91 17:20:34 +0000
[[ Editor's Note: The deadline for this is 8 November! -PM ]]
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
MRC Centre in Brain and Behaviour
The Medical Research Council has awarded a 7-year grant to establish a
Research Centre in Brain and Behaviour, based at the University of
Oxford, and also involving scientists from other universities including
Birmingham, Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh and London.
The main theme of the Research Centre is the organisation, function,
development and disorders of the cerebral cortex, and central to this
theme is the exploration of the cortex as an instrument of computation.
To this end, the Centre carries out research involving many different
methodologies, in the areas of sensory systems, learning and memory, and
motor control.
Applications are invited for the post of Computational Neuroscientist to
work on theoretical aspects of learning and memory. The post will be
based at the University of Edinburgh, where the post-holder will be
expected to spend 80% of his/her time. The remaining time will be spent
in linking with complementary work being carried out by other
participants of the Centre, particularly at the universities of Oxford
and Cambridge.
A range of projects is available, and prospective applicants are
encouraged to discuss their plans with Dr David Willshaw of the
University of Edinburgh. Two possibilities which are compatible with
present work are:
1) Development of a model of the mammalian hippocampal formation as
an associative memory;
2) Investigation of associative and error-correcting models of
cerebellar function as implemented in a biologically realistic form.
This appointment, which is available from January 1992 for 2 years in the
first instance and potentially renewable for a further 4 years, will be
made on the RS1A scale (currently 11,969-19,073 pounds p.a. with a
discretionary scale rising to 21,391 pounds p.a.).
Applications (including the name and address of two referees) should be
sent to Ms Catherine Greasley, Administrative Secretary, MRC Research
Centre in Brain and Behaviour, Department of Experimental Psychology,
University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD (telephone (0865)
271364 - mornings only) no later than Friday 8 November 1991.
The University of Oxford is an Equal Opportunities Employer
David Willshaw
Centre for Cognitive Science
2 Buccleuch Place
Edinburgh EH8 9LW
UK
Tel: (+44) 31 650 4404
Fax: (+44) 31 650 4587
Email: d.willshaw@edinburgh.ac.uk
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Subject: AI tools and Economics???
From: ECONEC@uk.ac.oxford.vax
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 08:30:00 +0000
[[ Editor's Note: I hope this poster and the one a few messages down will
be in contact. -PM ]]
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
I am studying for an MLitt/DPhil at the Oxford University and would be
very grateful for some help. This message is being transmitted to several
relevant lists and please feel free to forward it to anyone who might be
interested. Apologies in advance to anyone who gets fed up with seeing
it!
1) REQUEST: I am interested in references and names for work broadly in
the area of AI techniques applied to economics. To narrow this down, I am
interested in AI as a tool for developing alternative models of economic
behaviour than the traditional view of man as a perfectly informed
calculating machine! Because of the behavioural aspect and my preference
for economic theory I am hoping to avoid work that simply uses AI
techniques to solve traditional models faster. (GAs as function
optimisers for instance.) Similarly I am not seeking information on
decision support or Expert Systems unless they make some attempt (or
claim) to emulate human decision making behaviour. (Default Logics?
Frames?) Please err on the side of completeness!
2) OFFER: Obviously I can provide summaries of my findings to various
lists in the usual way. (Perhaps you could say where you saw my post so I
can keep the summaries relevant to each list.) What I would also like to
do is find out whether there is any interest in an adhoc email list of
people working in this area. Or if there is one already I would very much
like to hear about it. I'm sure such things have been going for years in
the US but information here in the UK seems very sparse. I would be quite
happy to "maintain" an unofficial bulletin board or mailing list if one
does not exist.
Many thanks in advance for any help and please feel free to contact me on
any aspect of this posting.
Edmund Chattoe
SNAIL: LADY MARGARET HALL
OXFORD
OXON
OX2 6QA
EMAIL: econec@vax.oxford.ac.uk
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Subject: Incremental networks?
From: Francisco Castillo Cobo <castillo@eel.upc.es>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 11:15:35 +0000
Hi, I am currently compiling a list of incremental (or growing)
neural networks, I have some already identified, including RCE and
Tiling. I am interested in receiving additional references on the matter
and would be glad to summarize the responses and send them to anyone
who might be interested.
Thanx!
F.Castillo
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Subject: Positions in CMU Speech Group
From: Xuedong.Huang@SPEECH2.CS.CMU.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 08:17:00 -0500
[[ Editor's Note: It's not clear if the applications are due by 1
Novemeber or should be mailed after that date. Contact the poster for
more details. -PM ]]
Applications are invited for one full-time research programmer and a few
part-time programmer positions in the speech group, School of Computer
Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, beginning November 1,
1991, or later. For the full-time position, BS/MS in CS/EE and excellence
in C/Unix programming required. Experiences in system intergration,
speech recognition, hidden Markov modeling, search, and neural nets
preferred. For the part-time positions, we are particulary interested in
CMU sophomores. Neat research opportunity for a real speech application.
Our Project involves mostly software development, hidden Markov modeling,
large-vocabulary search, language modeling, and neural computing.
Send all materials including resume, transcripts, and the names of two
references to:
Dr. Xuedong Huang
Research Computer Scientist
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Subject: Economic and Financial Modeling
From: wlb@progress.COM (Warren Bare)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 10:24:38 -0500
[[ Editor's Note: I assume we'll see Warren Bare and colleagues in the
Forbes 100 next year? For non-U.S. readers, Forbes is a business
magazine which annually published the list of the 100 richest people in
the U.S. and the world. -PM ]]
Greetings:
I am working with a small group who's goal is to use neural networking
software to model and forecast economic and financial systems.
Anyone interested in being involved in this process may contact me at
the e-mail address below. I will compile a list, and send regular status
to those who are active participants -- willing to give feedback, advice,
provide data, send cash :-)... Please just let me know how you would
like to help.
Our first model will provide 1, 3, 6, and 12 month projections for the
S&P 500 Index. As a result of the multi-net architecture we have chosen,
we will also have projections for several of the other indicators as
well.
We are currently in the process of gathering 20 years of weekly
historical data for the following financial and economic indicators.
Anyone who can provide a portion of this data (even in the form of
hardcopy) will be greatly appreciated.
Market:
01) S & P 500 Index
02) S & P 500 Div Yield %
03) S & P 500 Avg PE
04) S & P 500 Mkt to Book %
05) Customer's Free Credit Balance
06) Stock Margin Debt
07) Monthly Mutual Fund Liquid Asset Ratio
08) Total Size of Money Market Mutual Funds
09) Total Size of Equity Mutual Funds
10) NYSE Total Volume
11) ASE Total Volume
12) NYSE Non-Member Odd-Lot Volume
13) NYSE Non-Member Short Volume
14) NYSE Specialist Short Volume
15) NYSE Member Balance (volume of purch - sales)
Purchasing Power:
16) CPI
17) PPI
18) CRB Index of Future Prices
19) DJ Index of Future Prices
Confidence:
20) Barron's Index of High Grade Bonds
21) Barron's Index of Med Grade Bonds
Fed Data:
22) Discount Rate
23) Prime
24) Total Reserves
25) Free Reserves
26) Yield Curve info (yields on varying maturity fixed income securities).
27) M2
28) Treasury Gross Public Debt
29) Consumer Installment Debt
Thanks,
Warren
P.S. Please feel free to send this request along to other forums.
Warren L. Bare UUCP: mit-eddie!progress!wlb
Internet: wlb@progress.com
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Subject: ANN tutorial packages from academic sources?
From: RAETHPG@wl.wpafb.af.mil
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 21:53:15 -0500
From: NAME: Major Peter G. Raeth
FUNC: WRDC/AAWP-1
TEL: AV-785 513-255-7854 <RAETHPG AT A1 AT AVLAB>
[[ Editor's Note: Good question. Although there are a number of full
simulators, what do people do for their intro classes? I still recommend
PDP Vol 3, Explorations, by McClelland and Rumelhart, but that's mostly
because I don't know of others. -PM ]]
Does anyone know if there are any neural network tutorial packages
available from academic sources? I am aware of a number of commercial
products but would like to see if academia has produced any. My interest
is in on-line instruction and in printed material accompanied by disk.
Thanks for any input you can give me. My email address is
RAETHPG@wl.wpafb.af.mil
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Subject: Multi-modal nets and transputers?
From: Angus Marshall (Research) <amarshal@maths-and-cs.dundee.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 91 09:23:34 +0000
I have just started work for my Ph.D looking at producing a multi-modal
(i.e. sight & hearing at least) e net on a Transputer array of come
description.
The plan is to use CMACs (Albus Perceptrons) as the main unit.
I'd be very interested to hear from anyone with experience in
i) CMACs
ii) Transputers
iii) Sight
iv) Sound
v) Multi-modal nets
vi Any (all ?) of the above.
My real e-mail; address is :
mcramm@uk.ac.dct.cc.vaxb
(Unfortunately our coloured book isn't working right now)
Angus M. Marshall
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Subject: Open position Cognitive Psychology
From: mike@psych.ualberta.ca (Mike R. W. Dawson)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 91 10:22:00 -0700
I'd like to bring the following open position in cognitive psychology to
the attention of anyone who is modeling cognitive processes with their
networks:
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Cognitive or Developmental Psychologists
The Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, invites applications
for one and, subject to budgetary considerations, possibly two tenure
track positions at the level of beginning Assistant Professor, salary
range: $38,955-$55,755. Candidates with research expertise in either
COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY or DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY will be considered. The
position in Cognitive is open with respect to area of specialization.
The position in Developmental is also open with respect to area, but
there is some preference for individuals with interests in language
development, conceptual development, mathematical cognition, reading,
scientific reasoning, spelling, or writing. Current Developmental
faculty conduct research on emergent literacy, reading, and arithmetic
skill. Decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated research
excellence, interactions with colleagues, and teaching ability.
Applications should include a curriculum vita, three letters of
recommendation, and reprints or recent publications. These materials
should be sent, as appropriate, to Cognitive Search Chair, Dr. Peter
Dixon, or Developmental Search Chair, Dr. Jeffrey Bisanz, Department of
Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E9. To
receive full consideration, all materials must be received by January 1,
1992.
The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity in
employment. The University encourages applications from aboriginal
persons, disabled persons, members of visible minorities and women.
========================================================================
Michael R. W. Dawson email: mike@psych.ualberta.ca
Department of Psychology
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta Tel: +1 403 492 5175
T6G 2E9, Canada Fax: +1 403 492 1768
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Subject: sharing a room at the Sheraton for NIPS 91
From: sowmya@cs.utexas.edu (Sowmya Ramachandran)
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Date: 22 Oct 91 15:19:24 +0000
I am looking for someone (female preferably) to share a room with at the
Sheraton during the upcoming NIPS 91 conference. I plan on being at
Denver from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4th.
If interested please send me an email.
Thanks.
sowmya
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Subject: Research Fellowship (UK)
From: dlb@ukc.ac.uk
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 91 13:10:16 +0000
Research Fellowship in Neural Networks:
Investigation of Digitally Implemented Neural Networks
Based on Novel Goal-Seeking Principles
UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY
Electronic Engineering Laboratories
Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship in the Electronic
Engineering Laboratories at the University of Kent to work on an
SERC-funded project on digitally implemented neural networks. The
project, part of an on-going programme of work in neural networks, will
investigate the properties and applications of novel artificial neural
networks based on Boolean processing nodes and embodying local low-level
goal-seeking principles.
Applicants should have a good Honours degree in electronic engineering or
computer science/engineering and should preferably hold a Ph.D. degree in
an appropriate area. Applicants with previous experience in the field of
neural networks or image analysis would be especially welcome.
The Digital Systems Research Group in the Electronic Engineering
Laboratories have a very strong research programme in computational
architectures for pattern processing, with a particular emphasis on
neural network architectures. Extensive facilities to support this work
are available, including both central and in-house computing systems, and
a dedicated workstation will be available for this project. Technician
support will also be provided.
The appointment is for a three year period and is available from 1st
January 1992. The salary is on the scale 11969 - 14170 pounds. informal
enquiries may be made to Dr. Michael Fairhurst or Dr. David Bisset on +44
227-764000, or by e-mail to dlb@ukc.ac.uk
Further particulars and application forms are available from The
Personnel Office, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent,
CT2 7NZ, England, quoting reference A92/13. Telephone +44 227 475482 or
764000 x3915. The closing date is 1st November 1991.
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Subject: ANN Basic Info Info & Announcement
From: elsberry@cse.uta.edu (Wesley R Elsberry)
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 19:13:49 -0600
[[ Editor's Note: Thanks, Welsey. Indeed, this is a wonderful resource
for both beginners and the jaded veterans. Of course, for our
internatinal readers, the trans-Atlantic phone bills may be a bit
expensive! -PM ]]
ANN Basic Info Info & Announcement
Several requests have come across the Neuron Digest recently asking for
basic ANN info. A good spot to get ANN info is the Central Neural System
bulletin board. CNS has a lot of ANN files available, and is the feed
for the international NEURAL_NET Echo (available from RBBS-Net and
FidoNet compatible bulletin boards). The file RESRC104.TXT is of special
interest, since it lists many resources to help those getting started in
ANN research locate journals, books, societies, and simulations. It
includes phone numbers for other ANN BBS's, too.
Files from CNS are available via ftp (at host site me.uta.edu), download
from a direct dial-up, File Request, and by mailed disk transfer.
CNS is changing its address and phone number. The old phone number,
817-551-9363, will be obsolete by October 28, 1991. The new phone number
will be 509-946-1267 or 509-WIN-1CNS, and should be active by October 30,
1991. The CNS net address will change from RBBS-Net 8:930/303 to FidoNet
1:347/303 at the same time.
Wesley R. Elsberry
Sysop, Central Neural System BBS
Moderator, NEURAL_NET Echo
P.O. Box 1187
Richland, WA 99352
509-375-6421 (work)
509-943-9894 (home)
509-946-1267 (Central Neural System BBS data phone : WIN-1CNS).
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