lehr@isl.stanford.EDU (Michael Lehr) (01/06/89)
An announcement that Bernie Widrow asked me to submit to the digest:
December 29, 1988
Fellow INNS Members:
In accord with the decisions of the INNS Board of Governors and
its Executive Committee, a negotiation with the IEEE has been
undertaken on the subject of joint technical meetings. The INNS
and the IEEE have succeeded in the negotiation! The first joint
meeting will be held June 18-22, 1989 at the Sheraton Washington
Hotel. Please see the attached announcement and call for papers.
In the past, the IEEE has held a series of meetings called ICNN
(International Conference on Neural Networks) and we held our
first annual meeting in Boston and called it the INNS Conference.
In the future these conferences will be combined and called the
IJCNN, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
The IEEE was scheduled to have the next ICNN in June 1989 in
Washington D.C. This will superseded by the first joint meeting,
IJCNN-89. We were scheduled to have our next INNS meeting at the
Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC in September 1989. The
conference date has been changed to January 1990 and this will
become the second joint meeting, IJCNN-W'90 (IJCNN-Winter 1990).
A call for papers will go out in about two months.
The need for two international conferences per year in the United
States was clear. During the past summer, both the IEEE San Diego
meeting and the INNS Boston meeting were highly successful.
Although their technical programs were very similar and they were
spaced only six weeks apart, both meetings were attended by about
1700 people. There is a need for these U.S. meetings, and
geographical diversity is the key. We are also planning to have
meetings in Europe and Asia.
The following is a partial list of reasons expressed by various
INNS members on why joint meetings with IEEE are desired:
o Engender a spirit of cooperation among scientists and
engineers in the field.
o Bring together life scientists with technologists for the
betterment of all areas of neural network research.
o Enhance the scope and size of the field, facilitating public
and private support for research and commercialization
efforts.
o Increase the ability of the neural network industry to
exhibit their technical developments and products.
o Avoid scheduling conflicts.
Our agreement with the IEEE calls for a review after the first
two meetings. If we are successful, then we go on together for
two more meetings. And so forth. Once we get over the initial
transients, we will try to have winter meetings on the West Coast
and summer meetings on the East Coast. The two societies will
alternate in taking primary responsibility for meeting
organization. The agreement is symmetrical, and both societies
are 50-50 partners in the meetings. The IJCNN conferences are for
the benefit of both IEEE and INNS members. Both memberships will
enjoy reduced conference fees at all joint meetings, with
students attending at even more reduced rates.
Fellow INNS'ers, I urge you to consider the attached call for
papers! IJCNN-89 serves as our annual meeting for 1989. The
deadline on the call for papers shows February 1, 1989, but has
been extended to February 15, 1989 for INNS members. This is the
absolute cut-off date. Get your papers into Nomi Feldman, and
incidentally don't forget to renew your INNS membership.
My best wishes to you for the New Year,
Dr. Bernard Widrow, President
INNS
-------------------------call for papers-------------------------
N E U R A L N E T W O R K S
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
June 18-22, 1989
Washington, D.C.
The 1989 IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference on Neural
Networks (IJCNN-89) will be held at the Sheraton Washington Hotel
in Washington, D.C., USA from June 18-22, 1989. IJCNN-89 is the
first conference in a new series devoted to the technology and
science of neurocomputing and neural networks in all of their
aspects. The series replaces the previous IEEE ICNN and INNS
Annual Meeting series and is jointly sponsored by the IEEE
Technical Activities Board Neural Network Committee and the
International Neural Network Society (INNS). IJCNN-89 will be
the only major neural network meeting of 1989 (IEEE ICNN-89 and
the 1989 INNS Annual Meeting have both been cancelled). Thus, it
behoves all members of the neural network community who have
important new results to present to prepare their papers now and
submit them by the IJCNN-89 deadline of 1 FEBRUARY 1989. To
provide maximum value to participants, the full text of those
papers presented orally in the technical sessions will be
published in the Conference Proceedings (along with some
particularly outstanding papers from the Poster Sessions). The
title, author name, author affiliation, and abstract portions of
all Poster Session papers not published in full will also be
published in the Proceedings. The Conference Proceedings will be
distributed *at the registration desk* to all regular conference
registrants as well as to all student registrants. The
conference will include a day of tutorials (June 18), the exhibit
hall (the neurocomputing industry's primary annual trade show),
plenary talks, and social events. Mark your calendar today and
plan to attend IJCNN-89--the definitive annual progress report on
the neurocomputing revolution!
**DEADLINE for submission of papers for IJCNN-89 is FEBRUARY 1, 1989**
Papers of 8 pages or less are solicited in the following areas:
* Real World Applications
* Neural Network Architectures and Theory
* Supervised Learning Theory
* Reinforcement Learning Theory
* Robotics and Control
* Optical Neurocomputers
* Optimization
* Associative Memory
* Image Analysis
* Self-Organization
* Neurobiological Models
* Vision
* Electronic Neurocomputers
Papers should be prepared in standard IEEE Conference Proceedings
Format, and typed on the special forms provided in the Author's
Kit. Indicate which of the above subject areas you wish your
paper included in and whether you wish your paper to be
considered for oral presentation at a technical session,
presentation as a poster at a poster session, or both. Papers
submitted for oral presentation may, at the referees' discretion,
be designated for poster presentation instead, if they feel this
would be more appropriate. FULL PAPERS in camera-ready form (1
original on Author's Kit forms and 5 reduced 8.5" x 11" copies)
should be submitted to Nomi Feldman, Conference Coordinator, at
the address below. For more details, or to request your IEEE
Author's Kit, call or write:
Nomi Feldman, IJCNN-89 Conference Coordinator
3770 Tansy Street, San Diego, CA 92121
(619) 453-6222
-ml