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Neuron Digest Volume 11 Number 21
Neuron Digest Tuesday, 30 Mar 1993 Volume 11 : Issue 21
Today's Topics:
Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL
software request
NN market size forecasts
Proceedings for PhysComp 92
Job openings at Apple (permanent and summer intern)
INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications
revue AIExpert
MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators
Postgraduate Studies at HKUST
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Subject: Post-Doc Position Announcement - JPL
From: Harry Langenbacher <harry@neuronz.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 09:56:03 -0800
The Concurrent Processing Devices Group at JPL has two post-doc positions
for recent PhD's with neural-net, analog/digital VLSI and/or
opto-electronic experience. The positions will have a duration of one to
two years. USA citezinship or permanent-resident status is required.
One position will be in our Electronic Concurrent Processing Devices
Group to concentrate on applications of neural networks and parallel
processing devices to problems such as pattern recognition, resource
allocation, and optimization, using custom VLSI designs, and custom
designs of computer sub-systems.
The other position will be in our optical-processing group, to work
with lasers, computer-generated holograms, and Acusto-Optic-Tuneable
Filters for applications in pattern recognition and other neural-net
architectures.
We currently work with (analog, digital, and optical) neural net and
concurrent processing devices and hardware systems. We build
special-purpose and general-purpose analog, digital, mixed-signal,
and opto-electronic chips. We develop neural net algorithms that
suit our applications and our hardware.
For over 7 years we have been a leader in hardware neural nets .
If you're interested, please send me a ONE PAGE summary of your
qualifications in the above mentioned fields, by e-mail(preferred),
US mail, or FAX.
Lab: 818-354-9513 , FAX: 818-393-4540
e-mail: harry%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
Harry Langenbacher
JPL, Mail-Stop 302-231
4800 Oak Grove Dr
Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
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Subject: software request
From: Alfonso Pitarque Gracia <pitarque@mac.uv.es>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 13:12:58 +0100
I am trying to find good neural network software for Macintosh II
computers. We already know the MacBrain, MacActivation and PDP programs.I
would appreciate any information about it. Thank you for your time in
addressing these issues.
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Alfonso Pitarque
Facultad de Psicologia
Universidad de Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibanez, 21
46010 Valencia (Spain)
e-mail:pitarque@mac.uv.es
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Subject: NN market size forecasts
From: "Sean Pidgeon" <pidgeon@a1.relay.upenn.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:45:01 -0500
Does anybody know of recent forecasts indicating the current market size
(US$ millions) and projected growth rate for NN-related software? I'd be
grateful if someone could direct me to an appropriate source.
Thanks.
Sean Pidgeon
Institute of Physics, Philadelphia
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Subject: Proceedings for PhysComp 92
From: matzke@tardis.hc.ti.com (Doug Matzke)
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 09:38:46 -0600
The Workshop on Physics and Computation, PhysComp `92, held in
Dallas in October 2-4, 1992, provided an opportunity to explore the
intimate relationship emerging between modern physics and computation
theory. One commonly held view is that information laws are dependent
on the laws of physics. Another emerging view is that the universe
would not work without information primitives underlying physical
laws. Both of these views conclude that physics and computation are
linked together at a very fundamental level. Understanding the
convergence of computation and physics will lead to a better
understanding of using physical mechanisms as computing engines, and
also lead to a better understanding of how the universe is organized.
Additional copies of the PhysComp '92 proceedings can be ordered
directly from IEEE Computer Society Press using the following form.
To subscribe to the our mailing list, to obtain more information about
this workshop, or to find out about related activities currently being
organized in the reawakening of this exciting interdisciplinary field,
please contact me.
Doug Matzke
PhysComp '92 Workshop Chairman
Phone: (214) 995-0787
Internet: matzke@hc.ti.com
or: physics.computation-request@hc.ti.com
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Subject: Job openings at Apple (permanent and summer intern)
From: Dan Rose <rose@apple.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 93 10:29:10 -0800
The Information Technology project in Apple's Advanced Technology Group is
now hiring for one permanent position and two summer internships. One of
the intern positions (#2 listed below) is specifically aimed at people with
neural net experience; the other two may also be of interest to this
audience.
Note: E-mail submissions are STRONGLY preferred. ASCII files only,
please. (More time unbinhexing, latexing, etc. means less time for us to
read your resume!)
Apple Computer has a corporate commitment to the principle of diversity.
In that spirit, we welcome applications from all individuals. Women,
minorities, veterans and disabled individuals are encouraged to apply.
- --------------------------- PERMANENT POSITION -------------------------
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST
Job description: Join a team conducting research on new approaches to
finding, sharing, organizing, and manipulating information for
content-aware systems. Emphasis on implementation of experimental
information and communication systems.
Requires: MS in Computer Science or BS with equivalent experience with
strong programming skills. Experience in information retrieval, hypertext,
interface design, or related field.
Preferred: Knowledge of Macintosh Toolbox, dynamic languages (LISP,
Smalltalk, etc.), GUI programming. Familiarity with common text-indexing
methods.
E-mail resumes to infotech-recruit@apple.com, or send to
InfoTech Recruiting
c/o Nancy Massung
Apple Computer, Inc. MS 301-4A
One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
- ----------------------------- SUMMER POSITIONS ------------------------------
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #1
Job description: Work with senior researchers on the application of
numerical methods to information retrieval (IR) systems. Assist on the
design, implementation, user testing and performance evaluation of such
systems.
Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student in computer
science, cognitive science, information retrieval or other relevant
program. Macintosh programming experience, the candidate should be able to
write an application program. MPW C. Basic knowledge on numerical linear
algebra.
Preferred: Background on numerical methods and/or statistics. Smalltalk
programming, familiarity with common text-indexing techniques. Some
exposure to human-computer interaction issues. Knowledge on the following
topics would be ideal: the vector model in IR, singular value decomposition
and factor analysis.
ENGINEER/SCIENTIST Intern (summer) #2
Job Description: Work with senior researchers to experiment with the use
of neural network and other learning methods for information retrieval and
organization.
Requires: Graduate or upper division undergraduate student with experience
in neural networks. Lisp programming with CLOS or other object system.
Interest in information retrieval, hypertext, corpus linguistics, or
related field.
Preferred: Macintosh programming experience. Some exposure to
human-computer interaction issues. Use of mapping techniques such as
vector quantization or multidimensional scaling. Familiarity with common
text-indexing methods.
E-mail resumes to infotech-intern-recruit@apple.com, or send to
InfoTech Internships
c/o Nancy Massung
Apple Computer, Inc. MS 301-4A
One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
Please indicate which position you are interested in.
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Subject: INNS SIG on Advanced Technology in Financial Applications
From: masud@invnext.worldbank.org (masud cader)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 10:12:57 -0500
You recently received an announcement of the establishment of a board
on financial and economic applications of advanced technology. Some
of you have had messages bouncing back when responding to the
original announcement. We fixed these problems and hope we got all
the bugs out of the system. The mailer and network services are now
consistent with those of the organization who is maintaining this
board. As a reminder, the following accounts are now operational
ACCOUNTS
=> AT-Finance-Board or at-finance-board
This account can be used by all users on this system to post messages
that will be shared with everyone.
Send messages to AT-Finance-Board@invnext.worldbank.org or use
automatic reply.
=> AT-Finance-Request or at-finance-request
This account is to be used ONLY for requesting to get on or off the
mailing list of this board.
Send requests to AT-Finance-Request@invnext.worldbank.org
=> AT-Finance or at-finance
This account will be solely used for board maintenance and
administration. Please do not use this account to respond to
messages.
Looking forward to your participation in this board.
Guido J. Deboeck
Chairman SIG Finance INNS
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Forwarded from:
Masud Cader
The World Bank
masud@invnext.worldbank.org
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Subject: revue AIExpert
From: gueniffe@mines.u-nancy.fr (Gueniffey Yves)
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 93 09:34:29 +0200
[[ Editor's Note: A reminder that the language of this Digest is English.
However, this fellow seems to be asking is AI Expert is available
electronically. I seem to remember that some of the software (code) was
archived somewhere, at least. Could someone offer assistance to this
fellow (and me with my very poor French?). -PM ]]
Bonjour,
Est-ce que par hasard, la revue AIExpert serait disponible a la
bibliotheque du CRIN? Merci du renseignement. (a propos, le(la)
bibliothecaire a peut-etre une adresse electronique?).
Y.G.
Yves Gueniffey-(gueniffe@mines.u-nancy.fr)
Ecole des Mines-Departement Informatique
Parc de Saurupt-54042 Nancy Cedex-FRANCE
Tel:(33) 83 57 42 83 Fax:(33) 83 57 97 94
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Subject: MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION: BBS Call for Commentators
From: Stevan Harnad <harnad@Princeton.EDU>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 93 14:15:03 -0500
Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by MARC JEANNEROD,
on MOTOR INTENTION, IMAGERY AND REPRESENTATION, that has been accepted
for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an
international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary
on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral
and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS Associates or
nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator
for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for
information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email to:
harnad@clarity.princeton.edu or harnad@pucc.bitnet or write to:
BBS, 20 Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771]
To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some
indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your
areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An
electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by anonymous
ftp according to the instructions that follow after the abstract.
____________________________________________________________________
THE REPRESENTING BRAIN: NEURAL CORRELATES OF MOTOR INTENTION AND IMAGERY
Marc Jeannerod
Vision et Motricite
INSERM Unite 94
16 avenue du Doyen Lepine
69500 Bron
France
KEYWORDS: affordances, goals, intention, motor imagery, motor schemata,
neural codes, object manipulation, planning, posterior parietal cortex,
premotor cortex, representation.
ABSTRACT: This target article concerns how motor actions are neurally
represented and coded. Action planning and motor preparation can be
studied using motor imagery. A close functional equivalence between
motor imagery and motor preparation is suggested by the positive
effects of imagining movements on motor learning, the similarity
between the neural structures involved, and the similar physiological
correlates observed in both imagining and preparing. The content of
motor representations can be inferred from motor images at a
macroscopic level: from global aspects of the action (the duration and
amount of effort involved) and from the motor rules and constraints
which predict the spatial path and kinematics of movements. A
microscopic neural account of the represenation of object-oriented
action is described. Object attributes are processed in different
neural pathways depending on the kind of task the subject is
performing. During object-oriented action, a pragmatic representation
is activated in which object affordances are transformed into specific
motor schemata independently of other tasks such as object recognition.
Animal as well as clinical data implicate posterior parietal and
premotor cortical areas in schema instantiation. A mechanism is
proposed that is able to encode the desired goal of the action and is
applicable to different levels of representational organization.
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To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.jeannerod). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just
let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you
feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
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or
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When you are asked for your login, type:
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Enter password as per instructions (make sure to include the specified @),
and then change directories with:
cd /pub/harnad/BBS
To show the available files, type:
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Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
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bitftp will then execute for you).
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Subject: Postgraduate Studies at HKUST
From: csconnie@uxmail.ust.hk (MS CONNIE)
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 93 16:42:45 +0700
Hello,
Enclosed here is a file informing about postgraduate studies at HKUST. Please
broadcast the message to all.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Connie Cheung
Executive Officer
Department of Computer Science
HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Department of Computer Science
Postgraduate Studies
THE UNIVERSITY
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was incorporated
in April 1988. It was intended to be established as a major technological
research university dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of
learning and to research scholarship. Its graduates will be men and women
of mature judgement and generous spirit who will contribute to Hong Kong's
economic and social well-being and promote research, development, and
entrepreneurship in the Asian Pacific region.
The medium of instruction is English.
LOCATION
Located at the geographical heart of Asia, Hong Kong has long been a
dynamic, international city. It is also the gateway for international ties
to China's business and industrial development. The world's third largest
financial centre, Hong Kong is home to 180 banks and the Asian base for more
than 500 international corporations. It is presently taking on the
challenges of high-tech based global business to create new avenues of
opportunity for economic growth.
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES
The Department of Computer Science at HKUST offers the degrees of Master of
Science (MSc), Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
in computer Science.
The Computer Science Department initially seeks to establish critical mass
in a few research areas that are relevant to the needs of society. The
particular focus of these selected research areas is software. Currently,
the research areas are Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Data
and Knowledge Base Systems, and Software Engineering. Additional research
areas will be established as the Department reaches maturity.
RESEARCH FACILITIES
State-of-the-art workstations with network access are available for research
use by faculty and postgraduate students in the Department. Current
departmental computers include numerous SUN SPARCs, DEC workstations,
NeXTStations, and 486 PCs. The Department will be expanding these existing
departmental computing facilities, both through funds provided by the
University for equipment to support computer science research and through
donations from industries. The Department has planned to establish
laboratory facilities for artificial intelligence, multimedia applications,
robotics, and software engineering. The workstations are connected to the
local Ethernet subnet, which is itself connected to the University's FDDI
backbone. The University network provides access to Internet and BITNET.
Computer Science staff and students have access to all of the University's
central facilities, such as the University Library, the CAD/CAM Laboratory,
and the Microelectronics Fabrication Centre.
FINANCIAL AID
Teaching and research assistantships are available for qualified applicants.
For 1992-93, these pay HK$9,000 (approximately US$1,165) per month. All of
our current full-time postgraduate students are supported by some form of
assistantships.
COSTS
Tuition for 1992-93 is HK$11,600 (approximately US$1,502) per year.
Postgraduate student housing is available on campus. For 1992-93, the cost
of a dormitory room is approximately HK$7,850 (approximately US$1,016) for 9
months.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Applicants for admission to the postgraduate programmes are required to have
completed, by the time they enter HKUST, a bachelor's degree in computer
science or a related science or engineering field.
Application may be submitted for both Fall and Spring semesters.
FACULTY PROFILES
The Department plans to grow to 50 academic staff by 1994. The following
are brief descriptions of the full-time academic staff as of January 1993:
Ishfaq AHMAD (PhD, Syracuse U., 1992)
Lecturer
Parallel and distributed processing; high performance computer architectures
and their assessment; performance evaluation.
Samuel T. CHANSON (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1975)
Reader
Computer communications (particularly protocols); software environment for
parallel computers; distributed operating systems.
Lewis Hau-Ming CHAU (PhD, UCLA, 1989)
Lecturer
Logic programming; formal specification; knowledge base systems; artificial
intelligence.
Siu-Wing CHENG (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1992)
Lecturer
VLSI/CAD; computational geometry; design and analysis of algorithms; data
structures.
Roland T. CHIN (PhD, U. of Missouri-Columbia, 1979)
Visiting Professor
Image processing; machine vision; digital signal processing; pattern
recognition and related applications.
Scott C. DEERWESTER (PhD, Purdue U., 1984)
Lecturer
Information retrieval; distributed information system architecture;
information visualisation; multilingual computing.
Pamela A. DREW (PhD, U. of Colorado, Boulder, 1991)
Lecturer
Heterogeneous and extensible DBMS architectures; object-oriented systems and
languages; semantic data modelling, DBMS support for software engineering
environments; information technologies.
Mordecai J. GOLIN (PhD, Princeton U., 1990)
Lecturer
The theory, design, and application of algorithms; computational geometry;
combinatorics.
Mounir HAMDI (PhD, Pittsburgh U., 1991)
Lecturer
Design and analysis of parallel computer architectures and parallel
algorithms; distributed computing; communication networks; optical
computing.
Kamalakar KARLAPALEM (PhD, Georgia Inst. of Tech., 1992)
Lecturer
Distributed database systems; data distribution; conceptual data modelling;
cooperative problem solving.
Michael KAMINSKI (PhD, Hebrew Univ., 1982)
Senior Lecturer
Complexity of algebraic computations; finite automata theory; applications
of logic in computer science.
Alex Chia-Yee KEAN (PhD, UBC, 1992)
Lecturer
Abductive, deductive and inductive reasoning; distributed reasoning; theorem
proving; constraint satisfaction problems; belief revisions; knowledge
representation.
Chung-Mong LEE (PhD, U. of Minnesota, 1989)
Lecturer
Computer vision; image processing; neural networks; expert systems;
robotics; artificial intelligence.
Qing LI (PhD, USC, 1988)
Lecturer
Object database technology; distributed and federated database systems;
applied machine learning; expert database systems.
Amelia FONG LOCHOVSKY (PhD, Princeton U., 1977)
Senior Lecturer
Artificial intelligence; image processing and pattern recognition.
Frederick H. LOCHOVSKY (PhD, U. of Toronto, 1978)
Associate Dean of Engineering
Professor of Computer Science
Data and knowledge base systems; organisational support systems;
human-computer interaction.
Jogesh K. MUPPALA (PhD, Duke U., 1991)
Lecturer
Performance and dependability modelling of systems and software;
fault-tolerant computing; stochastic Petri nets.
Man-Chi PONG (PhD, U. of Kent, 1985)
Lecturer
Software engineering; software tools; multi-media communication; Chinese
information processing.
Ting-Chuen PONG (PhD, Virginia Tech. Inst. and State U., 1984)
Senior Lecturer
Computer vision and image processing; artificial intelligence; pattern
recognition; robotics.
Helen C. SHEN (PhD, U. of Waterloo, 1982)
Senior Lecturer
Image and texture analysis (monochrome and colour); pattern recognition;
flexible manufacturing systems.
Vincent Yun SHEN (PhD, Princeton U., 1969)
Head of Department
Software engineering; distributed and real-time systems.
Chung-Dak SHUM (PhD, UCLA, 1989)
Lecturer
Query processing; multi-processor database systems; performance modelling
and analysis.
Michael STIBER (PhD, UCLA, 1992)
Lecturer
Neural networks; computer vision; computational neuroscience; nonlinear
dynamics; complex systems.
Stephen M. THEBAUT (PhD, Purdue U., 1983)
Visiting Scholar (1991-93)
Software engineering, including software requirements engineering, software
verification and validation, and software engineering technology transfer.
Dekai WU (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1992)
Lecturer
Probabilistic, statistical and neural natural language processing; dialog
systems; knowledge representation; machine translation.
Dit-Yan YEUNG (PhD, USC, 1989)
Lecturer
Primary research interests: neurocomputing (artificial neural networks),
pattern recognition. Other research interests: Chinese computing, machine
learning, robotics, speech recognition, telecommunications.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For more information about the graduate programme in computer science at
HKUST, contact:
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay
Kowloon, HONG KONG
Telephone : 852-358-7000
Fax : 852-358-1477
E-mail : csdept@uxmail.ust.hk
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