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Neuron Digest Wednesday, 20 Mar 1991 Volume 7 : Issue 13 Today's Topics: Summer Position Job Available - San Francisco Bay area NIPS Call for Papers NIPS-91 Workshop CNE Workshop on Emotions AISB 91 ANNA-91 Conference, May 29-31, 1991 Send submissions, questions, address maintenance and requests for old issues to "neuron-request@hplabs.hp.com" or "{any backbone,uunet}!hplabs!neuron-request" Use "ftp" to get old issues from hplpm.hpl.hp.com (15.255.176.205). ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Summer Position From: Lee Giles <giles@fuzzy.nec.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 13:52:01 -0500 NEC Research Institute in Princeton, N.J. has available a 3 month summer research and programming position. The research emphasis will be on exploring the computational capabilities of recurrent neural networks. The successful candidate will have a background in neural networks and strong programming skills in the C/Unix environment. Computer science background preferred. Interested applicants should send their resumes by mail, fax, or email to the address below. The application deadline is March 25, 1991. Applicants must show documentation of eligibility for employment. Because this is a summer position, the only expenses to be paid will be salary. NEC is an equal opportunity employer. C. Lee Giles NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 USA Internet: giles@research.nj.nec.com UUCP: princeton!nec!giles PHONE: (609) 951-2642 FAX: (609) 951-2482 ------------------------------ Subject: Job Available - San Francisco Bay area From: Andras Pellionisz -- SL <pellioni@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 10:00:43 -0800 JOB AVAILABLE PLEASE POST Neural Network Research Position Available Effective ASAP Place: NASA Ames Research Center Biomedical Research Facility Moffett Field, Mountain View San Francisco South Bay Area Area: Neural Network Software Development for Transputer- Based (Macintosh-Hosted) Neurocomputer Description: When the present wave of enthusiasm with neurocomputing will wane, two key areas of research will emerge substantially strengthened. Computer science and technology will focus on parallel processing using more and more advanced generations of neurochips. The basic science behind neurocomputing, the biophysics (neurophysics) of biological neural nets will focus on revealing the mathematical language intrinsic to brain function. The approach pursued by this PI combines these two aspects. During the last decade, the PI introduced and developed a geometrical approach to biological neural nets. It is already evident that some sensorimotor systems (especially the vestibulo-cerebellum that is nature's best neurocomputer to fast, parallel and gracefully degrading control of navigation and flight) manifest a non-conventional intrinsic functional geometry. Two consequences of this fact are obvious: (1) Basic research (tied to system neuroscience) is necessary to reveal the mathematical properties of neural geometry (which includes non-Euclidean metrical, fractal and chaotic geometries). (2) Neurocomputers have to be developed that explore and use properties of such geometries that are evidently advantageous to natural neurocomputing. Help wanted for this research to set up the basic software system for such a neurocomputer being developed. It will have the dual purpose (1) Fast, on-line analysis of multi-electrode data from the vestibulocerebellar biological neural nets, in order to reveal functional geometry of an existing (natural) navigation and flight control neurocomputer, (2) Implementation of neural net algorithms (e.g. geometrical transformation of generalized vectors expressed in intrinsic systems of coordinates) in functional spaces that are not necessarily restricted to Euclidean geometries. Required Qualifications: Under ongoing agreement of NASA Ames with San Jose University, part-time work is available during the academic year and full-time during vacation periods. To qualify for the program, applicants must meet the following criteria: (1) Be students in good standing above the Freshman level at any accredited institution of higher education in the US or (2) Instructors, professors or research staff members at accredited colleges or universities. The ideal candidate for this job is a University student (e.g. at Stanford or UC Santa Cruz) who is experienced with C programming on the Macintosh, has experience and/or interest in parallel processing (preferably with Occam/Transputers) and would like in his/her career to pursue long-term research in the field of neurocomputing. For more information and applications please contact: Andras J. Pellionisz NASA Ames Res. Ctr. Biomedical Research Facility Mail Stop 261-3 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 E-mail: pellioni@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov Telephone: (415) 604-4821 ------------------------------ Subject: NIPS Call for Papers From: John Pearson W343 x2385 <jcp@vaxserv.sarnoff.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 91 14:58:54 -0500 CALL FOR PAPERS Neural Information Processing Systems -Natural and Synthetic- Monday, December 2 - Thursday, December 5, 1991 Denver, Colorado This is the fifth meeting of an inter-disciplinary conference which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. There will be an afternoon of tutorial presentations (Dec 2) preceding the regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 6-7). Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper submissions are the following; Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems, Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural computation, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics. Theory: Computational Learning Theory, Complexity Theory, Dynamical Systems, Statistical Mechanics, Probability and Statistics, Approximation Theory. Implementation and Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators, Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks. Algorithms and Architectures: Learning Algorithms, Constructive and Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree Structured Networks, Performance Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization, Genetic Algorithms. Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning. Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion Processing, Image Coding and Classification. Speech and Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis, Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal. Control, Navigation, and Planning Navigation and Planning, Learning Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning, Robotic Motor Control, Process Control. Applications Medical Diagnosis or Data Analysis, Financial and Economic Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems. Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will be held. There will be no parallel sessions. The full text of presented papers will be published. Submission Procedures: Original research contributions are solicited, and will be carefully refereed. Authors must submit six copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single- page 50-100 word abstract clearly stating their results postmarked by May 17, 1991. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program. Summaries are for program committee use only. At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first summary page indicate preference for oral or poster presentation and specify one of the above nine broad categories and, if appropriate, sub-categories (For example: Poster, Applications- Expert Systems; Oral, Implementation-Analog VLSI). Include addresses of all authors at the front of the summary and the abstract and indicate to which author correspondence should be addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack category information, separate abstract sheets, the required six copies, author addresses, or are late. Mail Submissions To: Stephen J. Hanson NIPS*91 Submissions Siemens Research Center 755 College Road East Princeton NJ, 08540 Mail For Registration Material To: NIPS*91 Registration Siemens Research Center 755 College Road East Princeton, NJ, 08540 All submitting authors will be sent registration material automatically. Program committee decisions will be sent to the correspondence author only. NIPS*91 Organizing Committee: General Chair, John Moody, Yale U.; Program Chair, Stephen J. Hanson, Siemens Research & Princeton U.; Publications Chair, Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Laboratory; Publicity Chair, John Pearson, SRI, David Sarnoff Research Center; Treasurer, Bob Allen, Bellcore; Local Arrangements, Mike Mozer, University of Colorado; Program Co-Chairs:, David Ackley, Bellcore; Pierre Baldi, JPL & Caltech; William Bialek, NEC; Lee Giles, NEC; Mike Jordan, MIT; Steve Omohundro, ICSI; John Platt, Synaptics; Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute; David Stork, Ricoh & Stanford; Alex Waibel, CMU; Tutorial Chair: John Moody, Workshop CoChairs: Gerry Tesauro, IBM & Scott Kirkpatrick, IBM; Domestic Liasons: IEEE Liaison, Rodney Goodman, Caltech; APS Liaison, Eric Baum, NEC; Neurobiology Liaison, Tom Brown, Yale U.; Government & Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC; Overseas Liasons: Mitsuo Kawato, ATR; Marwan Jabri, University of Sydney; Benny Lautrup, Niels Bohr Institute; John Bridle, RSRE; Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar U. DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 17, 1991 please post ------------------------------ Subject: NIPS-91 Workshop From: John Pearson W343 x2385 <jcp@vaxserv.sarnoff.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 91 15:12:52 -0500 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS NIPS*91 Post-Conference Workshops December 6 and 7, 1991 Vail, Colorado Request for Proposals Following the regular NIPS program, workshops on current topics on Neural Information Processing will be held on December 6 and 7, 1991, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: Rules and Connectionist Models; Speech; Vision; Sensory Biophysics; Neural Network Dynamics; Neurobiology; Computational Complexity Issues; Fault Tolerance in Neural Networks; Benchmarking and Comparing Neural Network Applications; Architectural Issues; Fast Training Techniques; Control; Optimization, Statistical Inference, Genetic Algorithms; VLSI and Optical Implementations; Integration of Neural Networks with Conventional Software. The format of the workshop is informal. Beyond reporting on past research, the goal is to provide a forum for scientists actively working in the field to freely discuss current issues of concern and interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for the ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Specific open and/or controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Individuals interested in chairing a workshop must propose a topic of current interest and must be willing to accept responsibility for their group's discussion. Discussion leaders' responsibilities include: arrange brief informal presentations by experts working on this topic, moderate or lead the discussion, and report its high points, findings and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions, and in a short (2 page) summary. Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest by May 17, 1991. Proposals should include a title and a short description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish. It should state why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of interest. Mail submissions to: Dr. Gerald Tesauro, Co-Chair, Attn: NIPS91 Workshops, IBM Research P.O. Box 704 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA Name, mailing address, phone number, and e-mail net address (if applicable) must be on all submissions. Workshop CoChairs: G. Tesauro & S. Kirkpatrick, IBM PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MAY 17,1991 Please Post ------------------------------ Subject: CNE Workshop on Emotions From: Jean-Marc Fellous <fellous%pipiens.usc.edu@usc.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 91 13:39:48 -0800 ***************************************************************************** ** C.N.E W O R K S H O P O N E M O T I O N S ** ***************************************************************************** The Center for Neural Engineering of the University of Southern California is happy to announce that its student Workshop on Emotions will be held Monday March 18th from 8.30am to 4.00pm in the Hedco Neuro-Science Building Auditorium (on U.S.C campus). The papers presented will be the following: Affect versus Cognitive-repair Behaviors. Sharon Ruth Gross - U.S.C (Social Psychology) A Mathematical representation of Emotions. Charles Rapp - Illinois Institute of Technology (Computer Science). Cognitive and Emotional disorders in Parkinson's Disease. Peter Dominey - U.S.C (C.N.E, Gerontology). Cognitive-Emotional interaction using subsymbolic paradigm. Aluizio Fausto Ribeiro Araujo - University of Sussex (U.K) (School of cognitive and Computing Sciences) Emotional expressions conceptualized as uniquely effective communication devices Heidi M. Lincer - U.S.C (Psychology). Taxi world: Computing Emotions. Clark Eliott - Northwestern University. (Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Sciences). Zeal: A Sociological perspective on Emotion, cognition and organizational structure. Gerardo Marti - U.S.C (Gerontology, Sociology) In addition, the following papers have been accepted but will not be presented orally during the Workshop. They will be put on loan during the Workshop. Emotions and autonomous machinery. Douglas A. Kerns - California Institute of Technology (Electrical Engineering). Representation, Action, and Emotion. Michael Travers - M.I.T (Media-Lab). Toward an Emotional Computer: Models of Emotions. Jean-Marc Fellous - U.S.C (C.N.E Computer Science) There will not be any registration fees but, as to get an estimation of the number of persons attending the Workshop, interested people are invited to announce their attendance by email (or surface mail). We remind the participants that this event being a Workshop not a Conference they are strongly encouraged to participate to the debates by their comments and questions to the speakers. Thank you for forwarding this announcement to potentialy interested persons/instituions/mailing_lists. Further informations requests (and email registration) can be addressed to Jean-Marc FELLOUS Center For Neural Engineering University of Southern California U.S.C - University Park Los Angeles CA 90089-2520 U.S.A Tel: (213) 740-3506 Fax: (213) 746-2863 email: fellous@rana.usc.edu ------------------------------ Subject: AISB 91 From: B M Smith <bms@dcs.leeds.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 91 12:14:13 +0000 ************************************************************************** ***************** * * * A I S B 9 1 * * * ***************** UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK 16 - 19 APRIL 1991 TUTORIAL PROGRAMME 16 APRIL TECHNICAL PROGRAMME 17-19 APRIL with sessions on: * Distributed Intelligent Agents * Situatedness and Emergence in Autonomous Agents * New Modes of Reasoning * The Knowledge Level Perspective * Theorem Proving * Machine Learning Programmes and registration forms are now available from: Barbara Smith AISB91 Local Organizer School of Computer Sudies University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT, UK email: aisb91@ai.leeds.ac.uk *************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Subject: ANNA-91 Conference, May 29-31, 1991 From: /PN=HARRY.ERWIN/O=TRW/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@sprint.com Date: 01 Mar 91 12:27:00 +0000 ANNA 91 (Analysis of Neural Network Applications Conference) is the first of a series of conferences on the application of neural network technology to real-world problems. This is shaping up to be a very exciting single-track conference at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, that is organized around the problem-solving process: domain analysis, design criteria, analytic approaches to network definition, evaluation methods, and lessons learned. There will be two full-day tutorials on May 29th, addressing both fundamentals and advanced topics, followed by two days of presentations and panel sessions on May 30-31. The keynote speaker will be Dr. James Anderson of Brown University, Dr. Paul Werbos of the National Science Foundation will give the luncheon address on the first day, and Dr. Oliver Selfridge from GTE Laboratories will chair the rapporteur panel. Two panel sessions have also been scheduled: the first, chaired by Dr. Eugene Norris of George Mason University, will look back at the history of the technology, and the second, chaired by Dr. Jerry LR Chandler of the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will explore the probable state of the technology in the early 21st century. George Mason University is conveniently located near Dulles Airport in the Washington, D.C., area. Attendance at the conference will be limited by facility space, and reservations will be processed in order of arrival. Sponsors of the conference are ACM SIGART and ACM SIGBDP in cooperation with the International Neural Network Society and the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society. Institutional support provided by George Mason University and the National Institutes of Health, and support by American Electronics Inc., CTA Inc., IKONIX, and TRW/Systems Division. For a copy of the advance program, write: Toni Shetler, ANNA-91 Conference Chair TRW Systems FVA6/3444 P. O. Box 10400 Fairfax, VA 22031 Internet: /C=US/ADMD=TELEMAIL/O=TRW/G=ANTOINETTE/S=SHETLER/@sprint.com ------------------------------ End of Neuron Digest [Volume 7 Issue 13] ****************************************