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Neural Information Processing Systems
Natural and Synthetic
Monday, Dec. 3 -- Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Whistler Ski Resort
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Deadlines:
PAPER SUBMISSIONS: June 20, 2001
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: July 8, 2001
For submission info, see http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS
Invited speakers:
Barbara Finlay -- How brains evolve, and the consequences for
computation
Alison Gopnik -- Babies and Bayes-nets: Causal inference and
theory-formation in children, chimps, scientists and computers
Jon M. Kleinberg -- Decentralized network algorithms: Small-world
phenomena and the dynamics of information
Tom Knight -- TBA
Judea Pearl -- Causal inference as an exercise in computational
learning
Shihab Shamma -- Common principles in auditory and visual processing
Tutorials:
Luc Devroye -- Nonparametric density estimation: VC to the rescue
Daphne Koller & Nir Friedman -- Learning Bayesian networks from data
Shawn Lockery -- Chemotaxis: Gradient ascent by simple living
organisms and their neural networks.
Christopher Manning -- Probabilistic linguistics and probabilistic
models of natural language processing
Bernhard Scholkopf -- SVM and Kernel methods
Sebastian Thrun -- Probabilistic robotics
Also...remember that NIPS is heading north this year, to Vancouver
