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CALL FOR PAPERS / WORKSHOPS / DEMONSTRATIONS
Neural Information Processing Systems
Monday, December 9 -- Saturday December 14, 2002
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
http://nips.cc
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Summary of Key Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: JULY 1, 2002
Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 9, 2002
Demonstration Proposal Deadline: August 9, 2002
Conference: December 9-14, 2002
Submissions are solicited for the sixteenth meeting of an
interdisciplinary conference, which brings together cognitive
scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists,
physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians interested in all
aspects of neural and statistical processing and 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 tutorial presentations (Dec.9), and following it there will be
two days of focused workshops on topical issues at
Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (Dec.13-14).
**** NIPS*2002 INVITED SPEAKERS ****
Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney
Information flow in sensor networks
Paul Glimcher, New York University
Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain: Neuroeconomics
Deborah Gordon, Stanford University
Ants at Work
David Heeger, Stanford University
Neural Correlates of Perception and Attention
Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University
Statistical Data Mining
Pietro Perona, Caltech
Learning visual categories
**** NIPS*2002 TUTORIAL SPEAKERS ****
Martin Cooke
Computational auditory scene analysis in listeners and machines
Richard M. Karp
Mathematical, Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges from
Genomics and Molecular Biology
Michael Kearns
Computational game theory
Andrew McCallum
Information extraction from the world wide web
Sebastian Seung
Neural integrators
Yair Weiss, Jianbo Shi & Serge Belongie
Eigenvector methods for clustering and image segmentation
Please visit http://nips.cc for further details.
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