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* CALL FOR PAPERS
* CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
* CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
for the NIPS*2003 conference. Submission deadline for regular papers
will be June 6, 2003. Please consult the enclosed calls and our
Web site www.nips.cc for further details.
Sebastian Thrun
NIPS*2003 General Chair
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Neural Information Processing Systems, Natural and Synthetic
Monday, December 8 - Saturday December 13, 2003
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
www.nips.cc
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Submissions are solicited for the seventeenth meeting of an
interdisciplinary conference which brings together
researchers interested in all aspects of neural and
statistical computation. The conference will include invited
talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed
papers. It is single track and highly selective. Preceding
the main conference will be one day of tutorials (December
8), and following it will be two days of workshops at
Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (December 12-13).
INVITED SPEAKERS: Anders Dale, Harvard University: Relating
Brain Imaging Signals to Biophysical Models of Neuronal
Circuits; Paul Ekman, UC San Francisco: About Face: What We
Have Learned Through Measuring Facial Movements; Michale Fee,
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies: Time and Sequence in the
Brain: Insights from a Songbird; Marc Mezard, Universite de
Paris Sud: Analytic and Algorithmic Solutions of Random
Satisfiability Problems; Elissa Newport, University of
Rochester, Statistical Language Learning in Human Infants and
Adults; David Salesin, University of Washington and Microsoft
Research: The Need for Machine Learning in Computer Graphics.
TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Stephen Boyd, Stanford University: Convex
Optimization and Applications; David Karger, MIT: Algorithmic
Tools Applied to Learning and Inference Problems; Daniel
Lee, University of Pennsylvania: Learning in Sensorimotor
Systems; David Lowe, University of British Columbia:
Real-time Object Recognition using Invariant Local Image
Features; Klaus-Robert Mueller, Fraunhofer FIRST: Towards
Brain Computer Interfacing; Zach Mainen, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory: Neural Coding and the Olfactory System;
SUBMISSIONS: Papers are solicited in all areas of neural and
statistical computation, including (but not limited to) the
following:
o Algorithms and Architectures: statistical learning
algorithms, neural networks, kernel methods, graphical
models, Gaussian processes, independent component
analysis, model selection, combinatorial optimization.
o Applications: innovative applications or fielded systems
that use machine learning, including systems for time
series prediction, bioinformatics, text/web analysis,
multimedia processing, and robotics.
o Brain Imaging: neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, EEG
(electroencephalogram), ERP (event related potentials),
MEG (magnetoencephalogram), fMRI (functional magnetic
resonance imaging), brain mapping, brain segmentation.
o Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence:
theoretical, computational, or experimental studies of
perception, psychophysics, human or animal learning,
memory, reasoning, problem solving, language, and
neuropsychology.
o Control and Reinforcement Learning: decision and control,
exploration, planning, navigation, Markov decision
processes, game-playing, multi-agent coordination,
computational models of classical and operant
conditioning.
o Emerging Technologies: analog and digital VLSI,
neuromorphic engineering, computational sensors and
actuators, microrobotics, bioMEMS, neural prostheses,
photonics, molecular and quantum computing.
o Learning Theory: generalization and regularization,
information theory, statistical physics of learning,
Bayesian methods, approximation bounds, online learning
and dynamics.
o Neuroscience: theoretical and experimental studies of
processing and transmission of information in biological
neurons and networks, including spike train generation,
synaptic modulation, plasticity and adaptation.
o Speech and Signal Processing: recognition, coding,
synthesis, denoising, segmentation, source separation,
auditory perception, psychoacoustics, dynamical systems,
recurrent networks, Markov models.
o Visual Processing: image processing and coding,
segmentation, object detection and recognition, motion
detection and tracking, visual psychophysics, visual scene
analysis and interpretation.
o Demonstrations: Authors wishing to submit to the
demonstration track should consult the conference web
site.
REVIEW CRITERIA: Submissions will be refereed on the basis of
technical quality, novelty, significance, and clarity.
Authors new to NIPS are particularly encouraged to
submit. There will be an opportunity after the meeting to
revise accepted manuscripts.
PAPER FORMAT: Submissions may be up to eight pages in length,
including figures and references, using a font no smaller
than 10 point. Text is to be confined within a 8.25in by 5in
rectangle. Submissions violating these guidelines will not
be considered. Templates will be posted at the NIPS Website
nips.cc.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: NIPS accepts only electronic
submissions in postscript and PDF format. The conference web
site will accept electronic submissions from May 19, 2003
until midnight, June 6, 2003, Pacific daylight time.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair, Sebastian Thrun,
Carnegie Mellon University; Program Chair, Lawrence Saul,
University of Pennsylvania; Tutorials Chair, Sam Roweis,
University of Toronto; Workshops Co-chairs, Robert Jacobs,
University of Rochester, Satinder Singh Baveja, University of
Michigan; Demonstrations Chairs, Shih-Chii Liu,
ETH/University of Zurich, Tobi Delbruck, ETH/University of
Zurich; Publications Chair, Bernhard Schoelkopf, Max Planck
Gesellschaft Tuebingen; Publicity Chair, Klaus Robert
Mueller, Fraunhofer FIRST; Online Proceedings Chair, Andrew
McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Volunteers
Chair, Dale Schuurmans, University of Waterloo.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Lawrence Saul (Chair), University of
Pennsylvania; Peter Bartlett, UC Berkeley; Samy Bengio,
IDIAP; Chris Burges, Microsoft Research; Rich Caruana,
Cornell University; Ralph Etienne-Cummings, Johns Hopkins
University and University of Maryland, College Park; Geoff
Hinton, University of Toronto; John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon
University; Mike Lewicki, Carnegie Mellon University; Michael
Littman, Rutgers University; Andrew McCallum, University of
Massachusetts Amherst; Rajesh Rao, University of Washington;
Jianbo Shi, University of Pennsylvania; Richard Shiffrin,
Indiana University; Yoram Singer, Hebrew University;
Alexander Smola, Australian National University; Martin
Wainwright, UC Berkeley.
PAPERS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JUNE 6, 2003
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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
Neural Information Processing Systems, Natural and Synthetic
NIPS*2003 Post-Conference Workshops, December 12 and 13, 2003
Whistler/Blackcomb Resort, BC, Canada
www.nips.cc
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Following the regular program of the Neural Information
Processing Systems 2003 conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada,
workshops on various current topics in neural information
processing will be held on December 12 and 13, 2003, in
Whistler, BC, Canada. We invite researchers interested in
chairing one of these workshops to submit workshop
proposals.
The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum
for researchers to discuss important research questions and
challenges. Controversial issues, open problems, and
comparisons of competing approaches are encouraged and
preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative
viewpoints and panel-style discussions are particularly
encouraged. Workshop topics include, but are not limited
to, the following:
Active Learning, Attention, Audition, Bayesian Networks,
Bayesian Statistics, Benchmarking, Bioinformatics, Brain
Imaging, Computational Complexity, Control, Genetic
Algorithms, Graphical Models, Hippocampus and Memory,
Human-Computer Interfaces, Hybrid Supervised/Unsupervised
Learning, Implementations, Independent Component
Analysis, Kernel Methods, Mean-Field Methods, Music,
Network Dynamics, Neural Coding, Neural Plasticity,
On-Line Learning, Optimization, Recurrent Nets, Robot
Learning, Rule Extraction, Self-Organization, Sensory
Biophysics, Signal Processing, Spike Timing, Support
Vector Machines, Speech, Time Series, Topological Maps,
and Vision.
Detailed descriptions of previous workshops may be found at
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/nips-6/nips2002/nips-papers.html.
There will be six hours of workshop meetings per day, split
into morning and afternoon sessions, with free time in
between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor
activities. Selected workshops may be invited to submit
proceedings for publication in the post-NIPS workshops
monographs series published by the MIT Press.
Workshop organizers have several responsibilities including:
o Coordinating workshop participation and content, which
includes arranging short informal presentations by
experts, arranging for expert commentators to sit on a
discussion panel, formulating a set of discussion topics,
etc.
o Moderating the discussion, and reporting its findings and
conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions
o Writing a brief summary and/or coordinating submitted
material for post-conference electronic dissemination.
Interested parties must submit a proposal for a workshop via
email by August 1, 2003.
Proposals should include title, description of what the
workshop is to address and accomplish, proposed workshop
length (1 or 2 days), planned format (e.g., lectures, group
discussions, panel discussion, combinations of the above,
etc.), and proposed speakers. Names of potential invitees
should be given where possible. Preference will be given to
workshops that reserve a significant portion of time for
open discussion or panel discussion, as opposed to pure
"mini-conference" format. An example format is:
o Tutorial lecture providing background and introducing
terminology relevant to the topic.
o Two short lectures introducing different approaches,
alternating with discussions after each lecture.
o Discussion or panel presentation.
o Short talks or panels alternating with discussion and
question/answer sessions.
o General discussion and wrap-up.
We suggest that organizers allocate at least 50% of the
workshop schedule to questions, discussion, and breaks.
Past experience suggests that workshops otherwise degrade
into mini-conferences as talks begin to run over. For the
same reason, we strongly recommend that each workshop
include no more than 12 talks per day.
The proposal should motivate why the topic is of interest,
why it should be discussed, and who the targeted group of
participants is. It also should include a brief resume of
the prospective workshop chair with a list of publications
to establish scholarship in the field. We encourage
workshops that build, continue, or arise from one or more
workshops from previous years. Please mention any such
connections.
NIPS does not provide travel funding for workshop speakers.
In the past, some workshops have sought and received funding
from external sources to bring in outside speakers. In
addition, the organizers of each accepted workshop can name
up to four people (six people for 2-day workshops) to
receive discounted registration for the workshop program.
Submissions should include the name, address, email address,
phone and fax numbers for all organizers. If there is more
than one organizer, please designate one organizer as the
primary contact.
Proposals should be emailed as plain text to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please do not use attachments, Microsoft Word, postscript,
html, or pdf files. Questions may be addressed to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Information about the main conference and the workshop
program can be found at
http://nips.cc/
Robert A. Jacobs, University of Rochester
Satinder Singh, University of Michigan
NIPS*2003 Workshops Co-Chairs
PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 1, 2003
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CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
Neural Information Processing Systems, Natural and Synthetic
Monday, December 8 - Saturday December 13, 2003
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
www.nips.cc
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Based on the success in 2002, the Neural Information
Processing Systems conference will once again include a
separate track for demonstrations. The demonstrations will
take place in parallel with the poster sessions at the
NIPS*2003 conference. Example areas of interest for the
demonstrations track include, but are by no means limited to
the following:
o Analog and digital VLSI
o Neuromorphic Engineering
o Computational sensors and actuators
o Robotics
o bioMEMS (microelectromechanical systems)
o Biomedical instrumentation
o Neural prostheses
o Photonics
o Real-time multimedia systems
o Large-scale neural emulators
o Software demonstrations of novel algorithms
NIPS is an interdisciplinary conference, which attracts
cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers,
neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and
mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural and
statistical processing and computation. The demonstration
track enables researchers to highlight scientific advances,
systems, and technologies in ways that go beyond conventional
poster presentations. It will provide a unique forum for
demonstrating advanced technologies (hardware and software),
and fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. We hope that
this track will stimulate interactions between researchers
from different fields (for example, roboticists and
neuromorphic engineers) and encourage new collaboration
between researchers in theoretical fields and those in more
applied fields.
Submissions accepted in the demonstrations track will be
published on the NIPS web site, but will not appear in
printed proceedings. However, submitting your work to the
demonstration track by no means precludes the submission of a
companion paper to the regular NIPS conference. In fact,
joint submissions are very much encouraged. We also
encourage authors submitting demonstrations to consider
organizing a workshop at NIPS*2003. Note that the deadline
for paper submissions is July 1, 2003, and for demonstration
and workshop proposals the submission deadline is August 1,
2003. Please see http://nips.cc for further details.
There will be a separate room for these demonstrations and
participants will have access to power strips, tables and
poster boards. VCRs and monitors will also be provided on
request. Participants are responsible for ensuring that their
demonstration is sufficiently portable; additional hardware
beyond that specified above will not be provided by NIPS but
might be provided at a cost if available.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All proposals for demonstrations
will be reviewed by the Demonstrations Co-Chairs. Interested
parties should submit a brief description of their proposed
demonstration via email by August 1, 2003. Proposals should
include a title, description of the device or system to be
demonstrated, main results, novelty and significance of the
work, any related publications, and estimated space
requirements for the demonstration. Please include the name,
address, email address, phone and fax numbers for all
co-authors on the submitted work, and indicate whether a
related paper has also been submitted to NIPS*2003.
Proposals should be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
should be in plain ascii text, postscript or pdf. Questions
may also be addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information
about the main conference and the workshop program can be
found at http://nips.cc.
Shih-Chii Liu and Tobi Delbrueck, Institute of
Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich
NIPS*2003 Demonstrations Co-Chairs
PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 1, 2003
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