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Neuron Digest Volume 11 Number 10
Neuron Digest Tuesday, 9 Feb 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 10
Today's Topics:
Weightless Neural Network Workshop
1993 courses and workshops programme
CALL FOR PAPERS
Call for papers: AI Symposium
Spring '93, Rutgers Neuroscience: LEARNING & MEMORY
BISC Special Seminar
attendance restriction at BISC Special Seminar
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Subject: Weightless Neural Network Workshop
From: austin@minster.york.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 08:27:42
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**** Weightless Neural Network Workshop '93 ****
**** Computing with Logical Neurons ****
**** ****
**** University of York ****
**** York, UK ****
**** ****
**** 6-7 April 1993 ****
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The aim of this Workshop is to present the very latest research
on weightless or logical neural networks, and to provide the
maximum opportunity for both formal and informal discussions.
Accommodation will be on the University of York campus. This
attractive campus is situated about two kilometres from the
centre of the historic city of York - perhaps the best preserved
medieval city in Northern Europe. There are exellent rail
(London - York: 100 minutes) and road links. All attendees will
receive a copy of the Workshop Proceedings.
**** Preliminary Programme ****
** Monday 5 April 1993
17:30 Registration
18:30 Dinner (extra)
20:00 End of Registration
"Guided Tour of Ancient York Hostelries"
** Tuesday 6 April 1993
8:30 Registration
9:15 Welcome
9:30 MAGNUS an iconic neural state machine
I Aleksander
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College, London
10:00 Functionality constraints in perceptron training
T Windeatt and R Tebbs
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
University of Surrey
10:30 A weightless neural network for discrete relaxation problems
H M Alnuweiri and C J Su
Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of British Columbia
11:00 Coffee
11:30 A review of the theory of pRAMs
J G Taylor
Centre for Neural Networks,
King's College, London
12:00 Review of hardware pRAMs
T G Clarkson, C K Ng and J Bean
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
King's College, London
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Poster Session and Tea
16:15 A review of the Advanced Distributed Associative Memory (ADAM)
J Austin
Department of Computer Science, University of York
16:45 N-tuple classifier for ECG signals
A Badr
L.E.M., Gent University
17:15 An exploration of the effect of super large n-tuples on single layer
RAMnets
A Lamb and R Rohwer
Bath
17:45 A geometrician's view of n-tuple sub-space sampling of
Boolean metric spaces
N M Allinson
Image Engineering Laboratory, University of York
18:15 Close of Session
19:30 Workshop Dinner
** Wednesday 7 April 1993
8:30 Invariant pattern recognition using binary neural networks
M Brown and J Austin
Department of Computer Science, University of York
9:00 Feature selection and character classification using a weightless ANN
A Garzotto
Information Systems Research, Swiss Life, Zurich
9:30 Two improvements for GSN neural networks
W Martins and N M Allinson
Image Engineering Laboratory, University of York
10:00 Fault tolerance of binary neural networks
G R Bolt
Department of Psychology, University of York
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Data recognition with a self-organising logical neural network
G Tambouratzis and T J Stonham
Department of Electrical Engineering, Brunel University
11:30 A self-organising feature extraction architecture for Boolean networks
A de Carvalho, M C Fairhurst and D L Bisset
Electronic Engineering Laboratories, University of Kent
12:00 A novel learning strategy for self-organising logical neural networks
R Rickman and T J Stonham
Department of Electrical Engineering, Brunel University
12:30 Closing Discussion
13:00 Lunch
**** Posters ****
1 Hardware prototypes for the simulated annealing method
and Boolean neural network
J Niittylahti, H Raittinen and K Kashi
Microelectronics Laboratory, Tampere University of Technology
2 Scheduling weightless systems with self-timed Boolean networks
F M G Franca
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College, London
3 Using genetic algorithms to optimise networks of weightless neurons
J Mason and E Hines
Department of Engineering, University of Warwick
4 Transparent learning: sculpting the basin of attraction field
of a random Boolean network
A Wuensche
Santa Fe Institute and University of Sussex
5 Realising a formal neuron by using pRAMs
G Bugmann and J G Taylor
Centre for Neural Networks, King's College, London
6 Aspects of pRAM training in noise
Y Guan and T G Clarkson
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
King's College, London
7 Use of pRAMs for modelling the quantal neurotransmitter
release process in the temporal noisy-leaky integrator neuron model
C Christodoulou and G Bugmann
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
King's College, London
8 Weightless neural networks optimisation for application
T Harris
Department of Design, Brunel University
9 Hardware support for distributed associative memories
I Kelly and J Austin
Department of Computer Science, University of York
10 The VLSI design of a neural network processing element: the pRAM module
C K Ng
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
King's College, London
**** Workshop Registration ****
Surname: ___________________________________________________
First name(s): _____________________________________________
Title: _____________________________________________________
Affiliation: _______________________________________________
Address: ___________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________
Phone: _____________________________________________________
Email: _____________________________________________________
Workshop Fee (includes accommodation 6 April,
all meals including Workshop Dinner, and Proceedings)
75
Accommodation for 5 April (Bed and Breakfast) 20
Total enclosed ________________
Cheques, in sterling, payable to 'The University of York', and send to:-
N M Allinson
Image Engineering Laboratory
c/o Department of Biology
University of York
York, YO1 5DD, UK
Special Dietary Requirements, etc. ________________________
____________________________________________________________
Further details from Nigel M Allinson: nma@uk.ac.york.ohm
Phone: (+44) (0) 904-432350
Fax: (+44) (0) 904-433222
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| | Nigel M Allinson
| Paste complex | Image Engineering Laboratory
| logo here | University of York, York, YO1 5DD, UK
| | Phone: (+44) (0) 904-432350
|________________| Fax: (+44) (0) 904-433222
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Subject: 1993 courses and workshops programme
From: Tagliaferri Roberto <robtag@udsab.dia.unisa.it>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 10:36:13 +0100
**************** IIASS 1993 Workshops and Courses **************
**************** Preliminary Announcement **************
February 9 - 12
A short course on "Hybrid Systems: Neural Nets, Fuzzy Sets and
A.I. systems"
Lecturers:
Dr. Silvano Colombano, NASA Research Center, CA
Prof. Piero Morasso, Univ. Genova, Italia
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March 23 - 27
A short course on "Languages for Parallel Programming"
Lecturers:
Prof. Merigot, Univ. Paris Sud, France
Prof. A.P. Reeves (to be confirmed)
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April second half
A short course on "Learning in Neural Nets"
Lecturers:
Dr. M. Biehl, Physikalisches Inst., Wuerburg, Germany
Dr. Sara Solla, AT&T Bell Laboratories
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May 12-14
The 6-th Italian Workshop on Neural Nets
WIRN VIETRI-93
Organizing - Scientific Committee
- --------------------------------------------------
B. Apolloni (Univ. Milano)
A. Bertoni ( Univ. Milano)
E. R. Caianiello ( Univ. Salerno)
D. D. Caviglia ( Univ. Genova)
P. Campadelli ( CNR Milano)
M. Ceccarelli ( Univ. Salerno - IRSIP CNR)
P. Ciaccia ( Univ. Bologna)
M. Frixione ( I.I.A.S.S.)
G. M. Guazzo ( I.I.A.S.S.)
M. Gori ( Univ. Firenze)
F. Lauria ( Univ. Napoli)
M. Marinaro ( Univ. Salerno)
A. Negro ( Univ. Salerno)
G. Orlandi ( Univ. Roma)
E. Pasero ( Politecnico Torino )
A. Petrosino ( Univ. Salerno - IRSIP CNR)
M. Protasi ( Univ. Roma II)
S. Rampone ( Univ. Salerno - IRSIP CNR)
R. Serra ( Gruppo Ferruzzi Ravenna)
F. Sorbello ( Univ. Palermo)
R. Stefanelli ( Politecnico Milano)
L. Stringa ( IRST Trento)
R. Tagliaferri ( Univ. Salerno)
R. Vaccaro ( CNR Napoli)
Topics
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Mathematical Models
Architectures and Algorithms
Hardware and Software Design
Hybrid Systems
Pattern Recognition and Signal Processing
Industrial and Commercial Applications
Fuzzy Tecniques for Neural Networks
Sponsors
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International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (IIASS)
Dept. of Fisica Teorica, University of Salerno
Dept. of Informatica e Applicazioni, University of Salerno
Dept. of Scienze dell'Informazione, University of Milano
Istituto per la Ricrca dei Sistemi Informatici Paralleli (IRSIP - CNR)
Societa' Italiana Reti Neuroniche (SIREN)
Invited Speakers
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Prof. Stan Gielen, Catholic Univ. of Nijmege, NL
Prof. Tommaso Poggio, MIT
Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, Berkeley (to be confirmed)
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May 24 - 28
A short course on "Neural Nets for Pattern Recognition"
Lecturers:
Dr. Federico Girosi, MIT
Dr. V.N. Vapnik, AT&t Bell Laboratories (to be confirmed)
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September 13 - 24
Advanced School on
Computational Learning and Cryptography
Sponsored by EATCS Italian Chapter
Lecturers
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Prof. Shimon Even, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Dr. Moti Yung, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Dr. Michael Kearns, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Prof. Wolfgang Maass, Technische Univ. Graz, Austria
Directors
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Prof. Alfredo De Santis, Univ. Salerno, Italia
Prof. Giancarlo Mauri, Univ. Milano, Italia
- --------------------------------------------------------------
The short courses and WIRN 93 are also sponsored by Progetto
Finalizzato CNR "Sistemi Informatici e Calcolo Parallelo" and by
Contratto quinquennale CNR-IIASS
For any information for the short courses and Wirn 93, please
contact the IIASS secretariat
I.I.A.S.S
Via G.Pellegrino, 19
I-84019 Vietri Sul Mare (SA)
ITALY
Tel. +39 89 761167
Fax +39 89 761189
or Dr. Roberto Tagliaferri
E-Mail robtag@udsab.dia.unisa.it
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Subject: CALL FOR PAPERS
From: "Kathryn Irene Snyder" <IRENES@UNC.OIT.UNC.EDU>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 16:01:00 -0500
> ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT JOURNAL
> REQUEST FOR PAPERS
>
> **Feature Topic: Psychophysics and Perception
> Papers are being requested in the areas of PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PERCEPTION.
> Papers on any topic in the field of perception, including but not
> limited to visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory perception are
> invited. Also, any researchers using psychophysical methodology, in
> perception or other fields of psychology,are encouraged to submit.
> **Please send your submissions to...
> **Editor: Irene Snyder
> irenes@unc.bitnet
> irenes@unc.oit.unc.edu
> Articles which have been accepted for publication will be compiled
> into a volume of The Psychology Graduate Student Journal: The
> PSYCGRAD Journal (c).
>
> (c) The Psychology Graduate Student Journal is a production of The
> PSYCGRAD Project (Copyright by Matthew Simpson).
>
>
> REQUIREMENTS:
>
> 1. All submitted articles should be in text format.
>
> 2. All articles should contain a table of contents outlined according to
> 1 Main topic number one
> 1.1 First sub-topic of main topic one
> 1.1.1 First sub-sub-topic of main topic one
> 1.2 Second sub-topic of main topic one
> 2 Second main topic
>
> 3. Each paragraph should begin with the appropriate number outlined in
> the table of contents.
>
> (Items 2 and 3, mentioned above, are necessary because bold and
> italic fonts are not recognized on most electronic-mail systems).
>
> 4. Each line should be no greater than 70 columns in width. This is
> necessary to decrease line-wrapping across systems.
>
> 5. APA guidelines must be adhered to (except where otherwise
> inconvenienced by electronic format, eg. items above)
>
> 6. Articles must not have been published elsewhere in written form.
> (Not published in journals; May have been posters or talks at
> conferences)
> Articles accepted for publication in The PSYCGRAD Journal may
> be published elsewhere at a later date.
>
> 7. After the title of each article, the author's name, postal address,
> e-mail address and affiliated institution must appear.
>
> 8. A list of keywords must also be provided.
_________________________________________
Wesley E. Snyder |
Professor of Radiology, Computer Science,|
and Computer Engineering (whew!) |
Office hours by video 10:30 Tuesdays |
Email wes@relito.medeng.wfu.edu |
(919)-716-3908 |
_________________________________________|
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Subject: Call for papers: AI Symposium
From: POCHEC%unb.ca@UNBMVS1.csd.unb.ca
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 16:26:12 -0400
Call for Participation
The 5th UNB AI Symposium
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* *
* Theme: *
* ARE WE MOVING AHEAD? *
* *
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August 11-14, 1993
Sheraton Inn
Fredericton
Advisory Committee
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N. Ahuja, Univ.of Illinois, Urbana
W. Bibel, ITH, Darmstadt
D. Bobrow, Xerox PARC
M. Fischler, SRI
P. Gdrdenfors, Lund Univ.
S. Grossberg, Boston Univ.
J. Haton, CRIN
T. Kanade, CMU
R. Michalski, George Mason Univ.
T. Poggio, MIT
Z. Pylyshyn, Univ. of Western Ontario
O. Selfridge, GTE Labs
Y. Shirai, Osaka Univ.
Program Committee
=================
The international program committee will consist of
approximately 40 members from all main fields of AI and
from Cognitive Science.
We invite researchers from the various areas of Artificial
Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition,
including Vision, Learning, Knowledge Representation and
Foundations, to submit articles which assess or review the
progress made so far in their respective areas, as well as
the relevance of that progress to the whole enterprise of
AI. Other papers which do not address the theme are also
invited.
Feature
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Four 70 minute invited talks and five panel discussions are
devoted to the chosen topic: "Are we moving ahead: Lessons
from Computer Vision." The speakers include (in
alphabetical order)
* Lev Goldfarb
* Stephen Grossberg
* Robert Haralick
* Tomaso Poggio
Such a concentrated analysis of the area will be undertaken
for the first time. We feel that the "Lessons from Computer r
Vision" are of relevance to the entire AI community.
Information for Authors
=======================
Now: Fill out the form below and email it.
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March 30, 1993:
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Four copies of an extended abstract (maximum of 4 pages
including references) should be sent to the conference
chair.
May 15, 1993:
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Notification of acceptance will be mailed.
July 1, 1993:
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Camera-ready copy of paper is due.
Conference Chair: Lev Goldfarb
Email: goldfarb@unb.ca
Mailing address:
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick
P. O. Box 4400
Fredericton, New Brunswick
Canada E3B 5A3
Phone: (506) 453-4566
FAX: (506) 453-3566
Symposium location
The symposium will be held in the Sheraton Inn, Fredericton , which
which overlooks the beautiful Saint John River.
IMMEDIATE REPLY FORM
====================
(please email to goldfarb@unb.ca)
I would like to submit a paper.
Title:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
I would like to organize a session.
Title:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Name:
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Department
_____________________________________
University/Company
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Address
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Prov/State
_____________________________________
Country
_____________________________________
Telephone
_____________________________________
Email
_____________________________________
Fax
_____________________________________
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Subject: Spring '93, Rutgers Neuroscience: LEARNING & MEMORY
From: gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu (Mark Gluck)
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 93 08:56:35 -0500
Rutgers Neuroscience Speaker Series:
LEARNING AND MEMORY:
COGNITIVE, NEURAL, & COMPUTATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
TIMES: Occasional Thursdays, 4:30-5:30 PM
LOCATION: Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience
Rutgers University, Newark NJ
CONTACT: Mark Gluck (gluck@pavlov.rutgers.edu)
SPRING 1993 SCHEDULE
Jan 14: Mortimer Mishkin
NIMH Parallel cerebral memory systems.
Feb 11: Herbert Terrace
Columbia Univ. Serial learning in pigeons & monkeys.
Feb 18: James Corter
Columbia Univ. Learning basic level categories.
Mar 4: Howard Eichenbaum
U.N.C. What does the hippocampus do?
Mar 18: Larry Maloney
N.Y.U. Adaptive calibration in early vision.
Mar 25: Bruce McNaughton
Univ. of AZ Spatial representation and navigation.
Apr 22: Mark Gluck
Rutgers Univ. Hippocampal computation and generalization.
May 6: Terrence Sejnowski
Salk Inst. Keeping your eyes on track.
May 13: Horace Barlow
NEC Cortical representation and computation.
May 20: Barbara Malamut
Phil. Geriatric Cntr. Neuropsychology of human learning.
May 27: Antonio Damasio
Univ. of Iowa Brain systems for memory.
This seminar presents current research on the cognitive, neural,
behavioral, and computational aspects of learning and memory. The
lectures are open to all. Copies of the speakers' representative
publications will be available one week prior to each lecture in the CMBN
Library.
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Subject: BISC Special Seminar
From: Hideyuki Takagi <takagi@diva.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 93 18:48:15 -0800
Dear Colleagues:
We will hold the BISC Special Seminar at UC Berkeley one day before
FUZZ-IEEE'93/ICNN'93. Please forward the following announcement to widely.
Hideyuki TAKAGI
EXTENDED BISC SPECIAL SEMINAR
10:30AM-5:45PM, March 28 (Sunday), 1993
Sibley Auditorium (210) in Bechtel Hall
University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
BISC (Berkeley Initiative for Soft Computing) of UC Berkeley will hold
a Special Seminar to take advantage of the presence in the San Francisco
area of the luminaries attending FUZZ-IEEE'93/ICNN'93. We hope that your
schedule will allow you to participate.
PROGRAM:
10:30-11:00 Lotfi A. Zadeh (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Soft Computing
11:00-12:00 Hidetomo Ichihashi / Univ. of Osaka Prefecture
Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches to Optimization and Inverse Problems
12:00- 1:30 (lunch)
1:30- 2:30 Philippe Smets (Iridia Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Imperfect information : Imprecision - Uncertainty
2:30- 3:30 Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology)
Competitive-Learning Neural Networks are closest to Biology
3:30- 3:45 (break)
3:45- 4:45 Michio Sugeno (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Fuzzy Modeling towards Qualitative Modeling
4:45- 5:45 Hugues Bersini (Iridia Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
The Immune Learning Mechanisms: Reinforcement, Recruitment
and their Applications
REGISTRATION:
Attendance is free and registration is not required.
HOW TO GET HERE:
[BART subway from San Francisco downtown]
The closest station to the SF Hilton Hotel is the Powell Str. Station.
Berkeley is a safe 24 minute ride from the Powell Str. Station. You must
catch the Concord bound train and transfer onto a Richmond bound train
at the Oakland City Center-12th Str. Station. Trains on Sunday
rendezvous every 20 minutes as indicated below.
Powell 12th Str. Berkeley
8:17 ---- 8:31 8:31 ---- 8:41
8:37 ---- 8:51 8:51 ---- 9:01
8:57 ---- 9:11 9:11 ---- 9:21
9:17 ---- 9:31 9:31 ---- 9:41
9:37 ---- 9:51 9:51 ---- 10:01
It takes 15-20 minutes on foot from the Berkeley BART Station to reach
Bechtel Hall, which is located on the North-East part of campus.
Bechtel Hall is just North of Evans Hall, home of the Computer Science
Division. North Gate is the nearest campus gate.
[TAXI]
You can take a taxi from the front of the Berkeley BART Station. Ask the
taxi driver to enter from East Gate on campus and let you off at Mining
Circle. The tallest building adjacent to the circle is Evans Hall.
Bechtel Hall is just north of the Evans.
[CAR]
Get off at the University Ave. exit from Interstate 80. The east end of
University Ave. is the West Gate to UC Berkeley. Most street parking is
free on Sunday, but it may be scarce and remember to read the signs. If
you feel you must park in a lot, we recommend UCB Parking Structure H
which is located at the corner of Hearst and La Loma Avenues. You must
buy an all day parking ticket from the vending machine located on the
2nd level (the only one in the structure). You need to prepare 12
quarters. Illegal parking in Berkeley is expensive.
CONTACT ADDRESS:
Hideyuki TAKAGI, Coordinator of this seminar (takagi@cs.berkeley.edu)
Lotfi A. Zadeh, Director of BISC (zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu)
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
FAX <+1>510-642-5775
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Subject: attendance restriction at BISC Special Seminar
From: Hideyuki Takagi <takagi@diva.berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 93 11:36:59 -0800
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
in
Extended BISC Special Seminar
10:30AM-5:45PM, March 28 (Sunday), 1993
Sibley Auditorium (210) in Bechtel Hall
University of California, Berkeley CA 94720
Dear Colleagues:
This is to inform you of an organizational change in the Extended BISC
Special Seminar which was announced on February 4.
Most of speakers in the regular BISC Seminar are associated with
companies and universities in the Bay area. The motivations for the
Extended BISC Seminar was to take advantage of the presence in the Bay
area of some of the leading contributors to fuzzy logic and neural
network theory from abroad, who will be participating in FUZZ-IEEE'93 /
ICNN'93.
A problem which became apparent is that because both the Extended BISC
Seminar and the FUZZ-IEEE'93/ICNN'93 tutorials are scheduled to take
place on the same day, the BISC Seminar may have an adverse effect on
registration for the conference tutorilas.
To resolve this problem, it was felt that it may be nessary to restrict
attendance at the Extended BISC Seminar to students and faculty in the
Bay area who normally attend the BISC Seminar. In this way, the Extended
BISC Seminar would serve its usual role and at the same time bring to
the Berkeley Campus some of the leading contributors to soft computing.
The publicity for the Extended BISC Seminar will state that attendance
is limited to students and faculty in the Bay area.
Sincerely,
BISC (Berkeley Initiative for Soft Computing)
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