** Last Chance for Early Registration Discounts is 8 November! ** You are invited to attend the 16th Annual Conference of NIPS 2002, Neural Information Processing Systems, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the Post-Conference Workshops at The Westin Resort in Whistler, B.C.
Tutorials: December 9, 2002 Conference: December 10-12, 2002 Workshops: December 12-14, 2002 The Conference Program is now online: http://www.nips.cc We accepted 207 papers this year from a record 694 submissions, maintaining the same high quality with an acceptance rate of 30% as in previous years. ----------------------------------------------- NEW ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCESS: https://register.nips.salk.edu/ When registering for this year's meeting you will be asked to create an account. We will retain the contact information that you provide and it will be used for a NIPS Directory that will be posted on the NIPS Foundation web site. You will be given the opportunity to choose exactly what you would like to appear in the Directory, or you may choose not to be listed at all. The NIPS Member Directory will be posted to the NIPS website in January of 2003. Our preferred method of registration is online, however, wire transfers and checks will be accepted. Even if you plan to pay using a check or wire transfer, please begin the registration process online to prevent errors in recording your contact information and to speed your registration processing. Applications for financial/travel support can also be submitted online. The deadline for such applications was Friday, Oct 18 (midnight PST). REGISTRATION DEADLINE: The early registration (with reduced registration fees) is November 8, 2002. REGISTRATION WEBSITE: https://register.nips.salk.edu/ PROCEEDINGS: All registrants will receive a CD-ROM of the conference proceedings. Proceedings will also be available free online. The 2 volume soft-cover format, published by the MIT Press, can be purchased at the special conference rate of $35. We hope you will join us in Vancouver for an exciting new NIPS 2002 Terry Sejnowski President, NIPS Foundation ----------------------------------------------- NIPS 2002 TUTORIALS - December 9, 2002 Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania -- Computational Game Theory Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT -- Neural Integrators Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University, and Serge Belongie, UC San Diego -- Eigenvector Methods for Clustering and Image Segmentation Richard M. Karp, UC Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute -- Mathematical, Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology Martin Cooke, University of Sheffield -- Computational Auditory Scene Analysis in Listeners and Machines Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University -- Information Extraction from the World Wide Web INVITED SPEAKERS - December 10-12, 2002 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, New York University -- Neural Correlates of Perception and Attention Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University -- Statistical Data Mining Pietro Perona, Caltech -- Learning Visual Categories WORKSHOPS - December 12-14, 2002 Propagation Algorithms on Graphs with Cycles: Theory and Applications (2 day) -- Shiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Max Welling Computational Neuroimaging: Foundations, Concepts & Methods (2 day) -- S. Hanson, B. Pearlmutter, S. Strother, L. Hansen, B. Martin-Bly Multi-Agent Learning: Theory and Practice (2 day) -- Gerald Tesauro, Michael L. Littman Independent Component Analysis and Beyond Stefan Harmeling -- Luis Borges de Almeida, Erkki Oja, Dinh-Tuan Pham Learning of Invariant Representations -- Konrad Paul Kording, Bruno A. Olshausen Quantum Neural Computing -- Elizabeth C. Behrman, James E. Steck Spectral Methods in Dimensionality Reduction, Clustering, and Classification -- Josh Tenenbaum, Sam T. Roweis Universal Learning Algorithms and Optimal Search -- Juergen Schmidhuber, Marcus Hutter On Learning Kernels -- Nello Cristianini, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael Jordan, Gert Lanckriet Negative Results and Counter Examples -- Isabelle Guyon Neuromorphic Engineering in the Commercial World -- Timothy Horiuchi, Giacomo Indiveri, Ralph Etienne-Cummings Beyond Classification and Regression -- Learning Rankings, Preferences, Equality Predicates, and Other Structures Rich Caruana, Thorsten Joachims Statistical Methods for Computational Experiments in Visual Processing and Computer Vision -- Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper, Geof Givens, Ross J. Micheals, Jonathon Phillips Unreal Data: Principles of Modeling Nonvectorial Data -- Alex Smola, Gunnar Raetsch, Zoubin Ghahramani Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics -- Colin Campbell, Phil Long Adaptation -- Spatial and Temporal Effects on Coding Garrett B. Stanley Thalamocortical Processing in Audition and Vision -- Shihab A. Shamma, Anthony M. Zador
