You are invited to attend the 14th annual conference of NIPS*2001, Neural Information Processing Systems, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and workshops at the Whistler ski resort near Vancouver.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS/ Tutorials: December 3, 2001 Conference: December 4-6, 2001 Workshops: December 6-8, 2001 The DEADLINE for reduced early registration fees is November 2, 2001. Registration can now be made online through a secure credit card link or through bank wire transfer, fax, and check: https://www.nips.salk.edu/regist.html Because the number of submissions this year increased to 650, we were able to accept 173 and maintain the same high standards: http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/NIPS/NIPS2001/nips-program.html All registrants this year will receive a CD-ROM of the conference proceedings, which will also be available free online. The 2 volume soft-cover format, published by the MIT Press, can be purchased at a special conference rate. The last month has been a difficult time for everyone. The organizing committee for NIPS*2001 has been working hard to ensure that the program and facilities for the annual meeting are better than ever. Vancouver is a beautiful city with many excellent restaurants within a short walk of the conference. The base at Whistler is at 2,200 feet, substantially lower than ski resorts in Colorado. We hope you will join us in Vancouver for an exciting new NIPS*2001 Terry Sejnowski ----------------------------------------------- NIPS*2001 TUTORIALS - December 3, 2001 Luc Devroye, McGill University - Nonparametric Density Estimation: VC to the Rescue Daphne Koller, Stanford, and Nir Friedman, Hebrew University - Learning Bayesian Networks from Data Shawn Lockery, University of Oregon - Why the Worm Turns: How to Analyze the Behavior of an Animal and Model Its Neuronal Basis Christopher Manning, Stanford University - Probabilistic Linguistics and Probabilistic Models of Natural Language Processing Bernhard Scholkopf, Biowulf Technologies and Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - SVM and Kernel Methods Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University - Probabilistic Robotics INVITED SPEAKERS - December 4-6, 2001 Barbara Finlay, Cornell University - How Brains Evolve, and the Consequences for Computation Alison Gopnik, UC Berkeley - Babies and Bayes-nets: Causal Inference and Theory-formation in Children, Chimps, Scientists and Computers Jon M. Kleinberg, Cornell University - Decentralized Network Algorithms: Small-world Phenomena and the Dynamics of Information Tom Knight, MIT - Computing with Life Judea Pearl, UCLA - Causal Inference As an Exercise in Computational Learning Shihab Shamma, U. Maryland - Common Principles in Auditory and Visual Processing WORKSHOPS - December 6-8, 2001 Activity-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity - Paul Munro Artificial Neural Networks in Safety-Related Areas - Johann Schumann Brain-Computer Interfaces - Lucas Parra Causal Learning and Inference in Humans & Machines - Joshua B. Tenenbaum Competition: Unlabeled Data for Supervised Learning - Stefan C. Kremer Computational Neuropsychology - Mike Mozer Geometric Methods in Learning - Amir H. Assadi Information & Statistical Structure in Spike Trains - Jonathon D. Victor Kernel-Based Learning - John Shawe-Taylor and Craig Saunders Knowledge Representation in Meta-Learning - Ricardo Vilalta Machine Learning in Bioinformatics - Colin Campbell, Sayan Mukherjee Machine Learning Methods for Text and Images - Jaz Kandola Minimum Description Length - Peter Grunwald Multi-sensory Perception & Learning - Ladan Shams, John Fisher Neuroimaging: Tools, Methods & Modeling - Steve Hanson Occam's Razor & Parsimony in Learning - David Stork Preference Elicitation - David Poole Quantum Neural Computing - Elizabeth Behrman Variable & Feature Selection - Isabelle Guyon -----------------------------------------------
