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BOSTON UNIVERSITY A World Leader In Neural Network Research and Technology Presents Two Major Events on the Cutting Edge NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, MAY 5-10, 1991 A self-contained systematic course by leading neural architects. NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, MAY 10-12, 1991 An international research conference presenting INVITED and CONTRIBUTED papers, herewith solicited, on one of the most active research topics in science and technology today. Special student registration rates are available. Sponsored by: Boston University's Wang Institute, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Graduate Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems, with partial support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS MAY 5-10, 1991 This self-contained systematic five-day course is based on the graduate curriculum in the technology, computation, mathematics, and biology of neural networks developed at the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the graduate program in Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) of Boston University. The curriculum refines and updates the successful course held at the Wang Institute in May, 1990. The course will be taught by CAS/CNS faculty, as well as by distinguished guest lecturers at the beautiful and superbly equipped campus of the Wang Institute. An extraordinary range and depth of models, methods, and applications will be presented with ample opportunity for interaction with the lecturers and other participants at the daily discussion sections, meals, receptions, and breaks that are included with registration. At the 1990 Course, participants came from 20 countries and 35 states of the U.S. Boston University tutors are STEPHEN GROSSBERG, GAIL CARPENTER, ENNIO MINGOLLA, MICHAEL COHEN, DAN BULLOCK, AND JOHN MERRILL. Guest tutors are FEDERICO FAGGIN, ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, MICHAEL JORDAN, ANDY BARTO, AND ALEX WAIBEL. DAY 1 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 6, 1991) PROFESSOR GROSSBERG: Historical Overview, Cooperation and Competition, Content Addressable Memory, and Associative Learning. PROFESSORS CARPENTER, GROSSBERG, AND MINGOLLA: Associative Learning Continued, Neocognitron, Perceptrons, and Introduction to Back Propagation. PROFESSOR JORDAN: Recent Developments of Back Propagation. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 2 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 7, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Adaptive Pattern Recognition. PROFESSORS CARPENTER AND GROSSBERG: Introduction to Adaptive Resonance, Theory and Analysis of ART 1. PROFESSOR CARPENTER: Analysis of ART 2, ART 3, Predictive ART, and Self-Organization of Invariant Pattern Recognition codes. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 3 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 8, 1991) PROFESSORS GROSSBERG AND MINGOLLA: Vision and Image Processing. PROFESSORS BULLOCK AND GROSSBERG: Adaptive Sensory-Motor Planning and Control. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 4 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 9, 1991) PROFESSORS COHEN, GROSSBERG, AND WAIBEL: Speech Perception and Production. PROFESSORS BARTO, GROSSBERG, AND MERRILL: Reinforcement Learning and Prediction. DR. HECHT-NIELSEN: Recent Developments in the Neurocomputer Industry. Evening Discussions with Tutors and Informal Presentations. DAY 5 COURSE SCHEDULE (May 10, 1991) DR. FAGGIN: VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks. END OF COURSE (at 1:30 PM). RESEARCH CONFERENCE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING MAY 10-12, 1991 This international research conference on a topic at the cutting edge of science and technology will bring together leading experts in academe, government, and industry to present their results on vision and image processing in INVITED LECTURES and CONTRIBUTED POSTERS. Topics range from visual neurobiology and psychophysics through computational modelling to technological applications. CALL FOR PAPERS - VIP POSTER SESSION: A featured 3-hour poster session on neural network research related to vision and image processing will be held on May 11, 1991. Attendees who wish to present a poster should submit three copies of an abstract (one single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1991, for refereeing. Include with the abstract the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding author. Mail to: Poster Session, Neural Networks Conference, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. Authors will be informed of abstract acceptance by March 31, 1991. DAY 1 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 10, 1991, 5:00-7:30 PM) PROFESSOR JOHN DAUGMAN, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY: "High-Confidence Personal Identification System Built from Quadrature Neural Filter" PROFESSOR DAVID CASASENT, CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: "CMU Hybrid Optical/ Digital Neural Net for Scene Analysis" DR. ROBERT HECHT-NIELSEN, HNC,: "Neurocomputers for Image Analysis" DAY 2 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 11, 1991) PROFESSOR V.S. RAMACHANDRAN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO: "Interactions Between `Channels' Concerned with the Perception of Motion, Depth, Color, and Form" PROFESSOR STEPHEN GROSSBERG, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for 3-D Vision and Figure-Ground Separation" PROFESSOR ENNIO MINGOLLA, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "A Neural Network Architecture for Visual Motion Segmentation" PROFESSOR GEORGE SPERLING, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Two Systems of Visual Processing" DR. ROBERT DESIMONE, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH: "Attentional Control of Visual Perception: Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms" PROFESSOR GAIL CARPENTER, BOSTON UNIVERSITY: "Neural Network Architectures for Attentive Learning, Recognition, and Prediction" DR. RALPH LINSKER, IBM T.J. WATSON RESEARCH CENTER: "New Approaches to Network Learning and Optimization" PROFESSOR STUART ANSTIS, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO: "My Recent Research on Motion Perception" POSTER SESSION DAY 3 CONFERENCE PROGRAM (May 12, 1991) PROFESSOR JACOB BECK, UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: "Preattentive Visual Processing" PROFESSOR JAMES TODD, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: "Neural Analysis of Motion" DR. ALLEN M. WAXMAN, MIT LINCOLN LAB: "Extraction" PROFESSOR ERIC SCHWARTZ, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: "Biologically Motivated Machine Vision" PROFESSOR ALEX PENTLAND, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: "The Optimal Observer: Design of a Dynamically-Responding Visual System" DISCUSSION END OF RESEARCH CONFERENCE (at 1 PM) CNS FELLOWSHIP FUND: Net revenues from the course will endow fellowships for Ph.D. candidates in the CNS Graduate Program. Corporate and individual gifts to endow CNS Fellowships are also welcome. Please write: Cognitive and Neural Systems Fellowship Fund, Center for Adaptive Systems, Boston University, 111 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215. STUDENT REGISTRATION: A limited number of spaces at the course and conference have been reserved at a subsidized rate for full time students. These spaces will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis. Completed registration form and payment for students who wish to be considered for the reduced student rate must be received by April 15, 1991. YOUR REGISTRATION FEE INCLUDES: COURSE CONFERENCE Five days of tutorials Admission to all invited lectures Course notebooks for all tutorials Admission to poster session All guest lectures One reception Sunday evening reception Two continental breakfasts Five continental breakfasts One lunch Five lunches One dinner Four dinners Daily morning/afternoon Daily morning/afternoon coffee coffee service service Evening discussion sessions with leading neural architects CANCELLATION POLICY: Course fee, less $100, and the research conference fee, less $60, will be refunded upon receipt of a written request postmarked before March 31, 1991. After this date no refund will be made. Registrants who do not attend and who do not cancel in writing before March 31, 1991 are liable for the full amount of the registration fee. You must obtain a cancellation number from our registrar in order to make the cancellation valid. HOW TO REGISTER: ADVANCE REGISTRATION: To register by telephone, call (508) 649-9731 with VISA or Mastercard between 8:00-5:00 PM (EST). To register by fax, complete and fax back the Registration Form to (508) 649-6926. To register by mail, complete the registration form and mail it with your full form of payment as directed. Make check payable in U.S. dollars to Boston University. ON-SITE REGISTRATION: Those who wish to register for the course and the research conference on-site may do so on a space-available basis. SITE: The Wang Institute of Boston University possesses excellent conference facilities in a beautiful 220-acre setting. It is easily reached from Boston's Logan Airport and Route 128. HOTEL RESERVATIONS: Sheraton Tara, Nashua, NH (603) 888-9970; Red Roof Inn, Nashua, NH (603) 888-1893; or Stonehedge Inn, Tyngsboro, MA, (508) 649-4342. The special conference rate applies only if you mention the name and dates of the meeting when making the reservation. The hotels in Nashua are located approximately five miles from the Wang Institute. Shuttle bus service will be provided. REGISTRATION FORM: COURSE - NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS, May 5-10, 1991 RESEARCH CONFERENCE - NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING, May 10-12, 1991 Name: ______________________________________________________________ Title: _____________________________________________________________ Organization: ______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City: ____________________________ State: __________ Zip: __________ Telephone: _________________________________________________________ Course: Research Conference: ( ) regular attendee $985 ( ) regular attendee $95 ( ) full-time student $275* ( ) Full-time student $75* *limited number of spaces. Student registrations must be received by April 15, 1991. 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