elman@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Elman) (12/21/89)
December 20, 1989
ANNOUNCEMENT & SOLICITATION FOR APPLICATIONS
CONNECTIONIST MODELS SUMMER SCHOOL / SUMMER 1990
UCSD
La Jolla, California
The next Connectionist Models Summer School will be
held at the University of California, San Diego from June 19
to 29, 1990. This will be the third session in the series
which was held at Carnegie Mellon in the summers of 1986 and
1988. Previous summer schools have been extremely success-
ful, and we look forward to the 1990 session with anticipa-
tion of another exciting summer school.
The summer school will offer courses in a variety of
areas of connectionist modelling, with emphasis on computa-
tional neuroscience, cognitive models, and hardware imple-
mentation. A variety of leaders in the field will serve as
Visiting Faculty (the list of invited faculty appears
below). In addition to daily lectures, there will be a
series of shorter tutorials and public colloquia. Proceed-
ings of the summer school will be published the following
fall by Morgan-Kaufmann (previous proceedings appeared as
'Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer
School', Ed., David Touretzky, Morgan-Kaufmann).
As in the past, participation will be limited to gradu-
ate students enrolled in PhD. programs (full- or part-time).
Admission will be on a competitive basis. Tuition is sub-
sidized for all students and scholarships are available to
cover housing costs ($250).
Applications should include the following:
(1) A statement of purpose, explaining major areas of
interest and prior background in connectionist model-
ing (if any).
(2) A description of a problem area you are interested in
modeling.
(3) A list of relevant coursework, with instructors'
names and grades.
(4) Names of the three individuals whom you will be ask-
ing for letters of recommendation (see below).
(5) If you are requesting support for housing, please
include a statement explaining the basis for need.
Please also arrange to have letters of recommendation
sent directly from three individuals who know your current
work.
Applications should be sent to
Marilee Bateman
Institute for Neural Computation, B-047
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
(619) 534-7880
All application material must be received by March 15, 1990.
Decisions about acceptance and scholarship awards will be
announced April 1. If you have further questions, contact
Marilee Bateman (address above), or one of the members of
the Organizing Committee.
Jeff Elman Terry Sejnowski
UCSD UCSD/SalkInstitute
elman@amos.ucsd.edu terry@sdbio2.ucsd.edu
Geoff Hinton Dave Touretzky
Toronto CMU
hinton@ai.toronto.edu touretzky@cs.cmu.edu
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INVITED FACULTY:
Yaser Abu-Mostafa (CalTech) Richard Lippmann (MIT Lincoln Labs)
Dana Ballard (Rochester) James L. McClelland (Carnegie Mellon)
Andy Barto (UMass/Amherst) Carver Mead (CalTech)
Gail Carpenter (BU) David Rumelhart (Stanford)
Patricia Churchland (UCSD) Terry Sejnowski (UCSD/Salk)
Jack Cowan (Chicago) Al Selverston (UCSD)
Jeff Elman (UCSD) Paul Smolensky (Colorado)
Jerry Feldman (ICSI/UCB) David Tank (Bell Labs)
Geoffrey Hinton (Toronto) David Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon)
Michael Jordan (MIT) Halbert White (UCSD)
Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki) Ron Williams (Northeastern)
George Lakoff (UCB) David Zipser (UCSD)
INVITED DISCUSSION LEADERS:
Rik Belew (UCSD) Marty Sereno (UCSD
Gary Cottrell (UCSD) Shawn Lockery (UCSD
Richard Durbin (Stanford)