ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Badrinath Ramamurthy) (08/02/89)
A friend of mine finished his MS and intends to work for his PhD
in Neural Networks and AI. Any suggestions which schools he should
be applying to ?
You can email me on this address: ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu
Thanx in advance.
-Badriramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Badrinath Ramamurthy) (08/03/89)
I recently posted a request for names of Schools with good PhD programs for AI & Neural-nets. Many people have asked me to forward my replies / post summaries to them. Yes, I'll post a summary to this newsgroup soon. - Badri
ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Badrinath Ramamurthy) (08/08/89)
Hello friends ! I posted a request for names of schools with good PhD programs for Neural Nets and AI, for a friend of mine. A lot of people were enthusiastic and shared their thoughts. Here is what I received: Many people named the following Schools: Boston U Caltech CMU MIT Rochester U of toronto UCSB Univ of Southern California at LA (USC at LA) UCSD Yale Many people chose to mention names and elaborate, and here I reproduce the text from these responses. Some mention newly formed groups and some give interesting information on literature to look up. ------------------ ------------------------------ ---------- Received: from ucsd.edu by turing.cs.rpi.edu (4.0/1.2-RPI-CS-Dept) id AA16856; Tue, 1 Aug 89 23:06:16 EDT Subject: Re: Schools for AI/Neural nets I am satisfied with UCSD - there are a LOT of people doing work in the area, not only in computer Science but in Cognitive Science, Physics, Linguistics, Economics and Biology (as well as others, no doubt). Course work available include Hecht-Nielsen's full year course, an intro course by Gary Cottrell in Computer Science, seminars on Machine Learning & more. Ongoing seminars include the PDP research group in Cognitive Science, authors & source of the three volume PDP books. Other schools doing interesting things: Boston University & Northeastern have the Center for Adaptive Systems or some such, under Steven Grossberg. The program is new and I don't know much about it, but Grossberg's work (while hard to plow through) is very important. USC has Michael Arbib, Bart Kosko and Christof von der Malsberg. I have heard from a couple of their grad students that contact with them is not easy nor productive. I think very highly of von der Malsberg, however. He is on the right track... Carnegie-Mellon has a major effort. Colorado-Boulder has Mike Mozer & Paul Smolensky. I don't agree with everything they say, but their work is excellent. Mike Jordan is now at M.I.T., he would be excellent to work for in applications of neural networks to robotics problems. Toronto & Rochester have some good people as well. And Stanford now has Rumelhart as well as Mark Gluck, a recent PhD who is extremely prolific. Most of their work is in Psych, or Signal Processing (Bernie Widrow). This should be a good core of schools to look at. I'd recommend getting a hold of recent proceedings from IJCNN, or the last two ICNN conferences, plus the NIPS conference and take a look at papers. If your friend sees something exciting, then he might want to contact that school & see what's up. Lots of research now will pay off in a happy PhD program... Dave DeMers demers@cs.ucsd.edu ----------------------- xx xx xx xx xx xx xx ------------------- From enorris@gmuvax2.gmu.edu Wed Aug 2 13:20:17 1989 Your friend would do well to consider George Mason University, located near Washington, D.C. There is a novel Ph.D. program in Information Technology which provides a broad base in computer science, software engineering, OR/STAT, etc. The CS Department has a flourishing and well-=funded AI Center with particular interests in Machine Learning. Other CS facultyt are active in neural networks, expert systems, genetic algorithms, natural language processing, etc. Assistantships are available. For firther information write Dr. James Palmer School of Information Technology & Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 (703) 323-2939 Eugene Norris CS Dept, GMU -------------------------------------------------------------- From honavar@cs.wisc.edu Wed Aug 2 14:05:34 1989 Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept CMU, UCSD, Yale, Brown, MIT, UWisc-Madison, Boston U, Stanford, Berkeley, Rochester, UCLA, Maryland, .. He should look at the recent proceedings of IJCAI, NIPS, as well as AI and NNet journals. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From heirich@cs.UCSD.EDU Thu Aug 3 00:18:21 1989 Organization: EE/CS Dept. U.C. San Diego You may consider me biased, given my location, but I think the best schools for a graduate program in neural nets are, without a doubt: Univ. Calif. San Diego Cal Tech Univ. Southern Cal. The other significant places would be: U. Toronto; Stanford; U.C. Boulder; Boston U. There are certainly other places, but these should be at the top of any list because of the faculty there. ---------------- Alan Heirich Comp. Sci. & Eng., Cognitive Science C-014 University of California, San Diego 92093 heirich@cs.ucsd.edu aheirich@ucsd.bitnet -------------------------------------------------------------------- From ck@rex.cs.tulane.edu Thu Aug 3 02:10:00 1989 At the Computer Science Department of Tulane University we have a PhD program and a group working on Neural Nets. Dr. Koutsougeras ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From plong@saturn.ucsc.edu Fri Aug 4 14:36:21 1989 Subject: Grad Schools for Neural Nets The University of California at Santa Cruz has an excellent program in Computational Learning Theory, if your friend is interested in studying the theoretical properties of neural nets. David Haussler and Manfred Warmuth, two of the "Four Germans" who wrote a key paper in this area, continue to be central figures, and both are a pleasure to work with. A third faculty member, Dave Helmbold, who has wide ranging interests, has contributed papers recently. Scholars visiting during the summer for joint research projects include Andrzej Ehrenfeucht, Michael Kearns, Nick Littlestone, Rob Schapire and Bob Sloan. The atmosphere here is very relaxed and noncompetative. The campus is truly beautiful, nestled in the redwoods in the hills overlooking Santa Cruz, with much of the campus having a view of the ocean. Computing facilities are excellent, and a vast majority of graduate students receive some sort of assistantship. I strongly recommend UC Santa Cruz for studying the theory of neural nets. Phil Long P.S. Some other schools with a lot of activity in Computational Learning Theory are MIT, Harvard, Technion (Isreal), Penn, Illinois, Illinois-Chicago, and Pittsburgh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to all the people who gave me this information. In case I receive more responses, I'll post the addenda.(If thats the right word). -Badri ............... Badrinath Ramamurthy ( ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu ) ...............
lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) (08/09/89)
In article <6561@rpi.edu> ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Badrinath Ramamurthy) writes: > > Univ of Southern California at LA (USC at LA) I just thought I'd better clarify so others don't get confused. There is no school that is known as USC at LA. There is the University of Southern California (USC) which is a private school and one of a kind. Then there is the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) which is a branch of the University of California system. UCSB, UCSD, and UCD are also UC branches. I suppose that there were responses for both USC and UCLA, thus the confusion. I don't understand how people can get confused. After all, California is THE center of the world. :-) :-D :-) +++ Lloyd Lim Internet: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (128.120.57.20) Compuserve: 72647,660 US Mail: 146 Lysle Leach Hall, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA 95616
patil@a.cs.okstate.edu (Patil Rajendra Bha) (08/11/89)
In article <6322@rpi.edu>, ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Badrinath Ramamurthy) writes: > > > A friend of mine finished his MS and intends to work for his PhD > in Neural Networks and AI. Any suggestions which schools he should > be applying to ? > You can email me on this address: ramamurb@turing.cs.rpi.edu > > Thanx in advance. > -Badri The information about the schools is given in one of the neural network society journal of 1988 some of them are The university of Tennessee , Center for neural engineering Boston University, Center for adaptive systems Brown university, Rhode Island John Hopkins university CALTECH Carnegie Mellon, Psychology Dept, MIT There are many others, last month I posted the same message, I got the same reply what you got, Then I looked into the research center directory and now awating the replies from the universities. C I am a graduate student in computer science and willing to go for Ph.D in neural networks. I would appreciate if you could mail the list of universitiesto me. I will let you know about the replies that I will receive. Thank you Patil Rajendra patil@a.cs.okstate.edu