---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION / TENTATIVE LIST OF TALKS ---------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- BRAIN - MACHINE WORKSHOP 20-22 December 2000, Ankara, Turkey ---------------------------------------------------------- Organized by The Intelligence Foundation of Turkey Middle East Technical University The Scientific and Technical Council of Turkey ---------------------------------------------------------- Conference Homepage: http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~vision/brainmachine.html ---------------------------------------------------------- The workshop aims to bring together the researchers working in Brain Research, Vision and Machine Intelligence ---------------------------------------------------------- Detailed list of topics, information on proceedings, registration, hotels and tours are available on the conference home page. ---------------------------------------------------------- KEY SPEAKERS ------------ * KARL PRIBRAM, Georgetown University, USA BRAIN AND COMPOSITION OF CONCIOUS EXPERIENCE * K.NICHOLAS LEIBOVIC, State U. of NY at Buffalo, USA COMPUTERS, GRANDMOTHER CELLS AND THE DYNAMICS OF FUNCTIONAL OPERATIONS IN THE BRAIN * E. BASAR, 9 Eylul University, TURKEY INTEGRATIVE NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND MEMORY "A Treatise based on Brain Dynamics", * LAKHMI C. JAIN, U. of South Australia, AUSTRALIA TBA INVITED TALKS ------------- * EVOLVED NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS Jean-Arcady Meyer (FRANCE) * NEW REGION OF INTEREST PARADIGM IMPROVES INTERPRETATION OF ACTIVITY IN FUNCTIONAL IMAGES OF THE BRAIN Didem Gokcay (USA) * FORWARD PROBLEM SOLUTION OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SOURCE IMAGING OF BRAIN Nevzat Gencer (TURKEY) * SPONTANEOUS EYE MOVEMENTS AND ITS ROLE IN SEEING AND VISUAL SENSITIVITY Ulker Tulunay Keesey (USA) * AN ARTIFICIAL VISION MODEL BASED ON STATISTICAL FILTERS Marcello Demi (ITALY) * AUDITORY INFORMATION PROCESSING DURING 1-4 SLEEP STAGES AND REM Sirel Karakas, Hamdullah Aydin, Hatice Kafadar, Emine D. Cakmak, Metehan Irak, O. Utku Erzengin, Belma Bekci (TURKEY) * A THEORETICAL INVESTIGATION FOR CLASSIFIER COMBINATION Hakan Altincay, Mubeccel Demirekler (TURKEY) * NEURAL NETWORK SCHEDULER FOR THE ATM NODE SUPPORTING THE PRIORITY QUEUES Irini Reljin, Branimir Reljin, (YUGOSLAVIA) * MODELLING UNCERTAINTY Aydan Erkmen, Evren Gurkan (TURKEY) * INTERPRETATION AND ACTION IN CONTEXT Varol Akman (TURKEY) * THE CONTROLLABILITY AND STABILITY OF HOPFIELD NETWORKS Raju K George (INDIA) OTHER TALKS ----------- * INTELLIGENT ROBOTS: THE QUESTION OF EMBODIMENTS Brian R. Duffy, Gina Joue (IRELAND) * A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF VISUAL CORTEX RECEPTIVE FIELDS USING SEQUENCES OF NATURAL IMGES Mariofanna G. Milanova (PORTUGAL, BULGARIA), Adel S. Elmaghraby (USA), Mark P. Wachowiak, (USA), Aurelio Campilho (PORTUGAL) * VISUAL ANALYSIS OF SIZE, LOCATION AND MOTION BY A MULTIPLE CHANNEL SYSTEM A. Quesada-Arencibia (SPAIN), K. N. Leibovic (USA), R. Moreno-D�az jr (SPAIN), M. Alem�n-Flores (SPAIN) * REFINING 3-D OBJECT MODEL BY A GENETIC ALGORITHM Emre Mengi, Volkan Atalay (TURKEY) * A COMPUTATIONAL MODEL FOR CHARACTER RECOGNITION BASED ON MULTY-RESOLUTION CHANNELS AND IAM Sung-Yang Bang, Chang-Su Park, Sang-Ki Kim, Dae-Jin Kim (KOREA) * CLASSIFICATION OF AUDITORY BRAINSTEM RESPONSE SIGNALS BY APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS Andrzej Izworski, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz (POLAND) * DETECTION OF EEG ARTIFACTS USING KALMAN FILTERING Martina Rohalova (SLOVAKIA), Peter Sykacek (AUSTRIA), Georg Dorffner (AUSTRIA), Milos Koska (AUSTRIA) * A TIMING MECHANISM WITHIN THE OLIVOCEREBELLAR SYSTEM Mehmet Kuntalp (TURKEY) * THE COMMON VECTOR APPROACH IN IMAGE RECOGNITION Olcay Oz Cokar (TURKEY) * ERROR CORRECTING CAPABILITY OF A MORPHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY Akira Imada (TURKEY) * TEXT SUMMARIZATION BASED ON INFORMATIVE TERMS Taeho C. Jo, Jerry Seo (KOREA) * SIMPLIFYING EXPERT SYSTEMS MAINTENANCE USING CASE-BASED REASONING IN SYMBOLIC VISION APPLICATIONS Hanan H.R. Elazhary (EGYPT), Ashraf H. Abdel-Wahab (USA), Samir I. Shaheen (EGYPT) * EFFECTS OF CHRONIC INTRAVENTRICULAR ADMINISTRATION OF NERVE GROWTH FACTOR ON SPATIAL LEARNING IN MEMORY DEFICIENT ADULT RATS. Ewa Jakubowska, Dogru, Or�un G�zer (TURKEY) --------------------------------------------------------- Registration Fee: 200 USD, Before Nov. 20 250 USD, After Nov. 20 Students: 120 USD, Before Nov. 20 150 USD, After Nov. 20 ---------------------------------------------------------- Tours to be organized to ISTANBUL (the former capital of three successive empires - Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman) CAPPADOCIA (seven layer underground cities, fairy chimneys, churches carved out of the tough rocks) ----------------------------------------------------------- If you are interested in participation please contact soon: UGUR HALICI, Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks Res. Lab. Prof. of Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng. Middle East Technical University, 06531, Ankara, Turkey email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: (+90) 312 210 1261 http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~halici/ http://heaven.eee.metu.edu.tr/~vision/ ---------------------------------------------------------
