mike@bucasb.bu.edu (Michael Cohen) (01/15/90)
NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS May 6--11, 1989 Sponsored by the Center for Adaptive Systems, the Graduate Program in Cognitive and Neural Systems, and the Wang Institute of Boston University with partial support from The Air Force Office of Scientific Research This in-depth, systematic, 5-day course is based upon the world's leading 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, twenty-eight hours of the course will be taught by six CAS/CNS faculty. Three distinguished guest lecturers will present eight hours of the course. COURSE OUTLINE MAY 7, 1990 ----------- ---Morning Session (Professor Stephen Grossberg) Historical Overview, Content Addressable Memory, Competitive Decision Making, Associative Learning ---Afternoon Session (Professors Michael Jordan (MIT) and Ennio Mingolla) Combinational Optimization, Perceptrons, Introduction to Back Propagation, Recent Developments of Back Propagation MAY 8, 1990 ----------- ---Morning Session (Professors Gail Carpenter and Stephen Grossberg) Adaptive Pattern Recognition, Introduction to Adaptive Resonance Theory, Analysis of ART 1 ---Afternoon Session (Professor Gail Carpenter) Analysis of ART 2, Analysis of ART 3, Self-Organization of Invariant Pattern Recognition Codes, Neocognitron MAY 9, 1990 ----------- ---Morning Session (Professors Stephen Grossberg and Ennio Mingolla) Vision and Image Processing ---Afternoon Session (Professors Daniel Bullock, Michael Cohen, and Stephen Grossberg) Adaptive Sensory-Motor Control and Robotics, Speech Perception and Production MAY 10, 1990 ------------ ---Morning Session (Professors Michael Cohen, Stephen Grossberg, and John Merrill) Speech Perception and Production, Reinforcement Learning and Prediction ---Afternoon Session (Professors Stephen Grossberg and John Merrill and Dr. Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC) Reinforcement Learning and Prediction, Recent Developments in the Neurocomputer Industry MAY 11, 1990 ------------ ---Morning Session (Dr. Federico Faggin, Synaptics Inc.) VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks TO REGISTER: By phone, call (508) 649-9731; by mail, write for further information to: Neural Networks, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. For further information about registration and STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS, see below. REGISTRATION FEE: Regular attendee--$950; full-time student--$250. Registration fee includes five days of tutorials, course notebooks, one reception, five continental breakfasts, five lunches, four dinners, daily morning and afternoon coffee service, evening discussion sessions. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS supporting travel, registration, and lodging for the Course are available to full-time graduate students in a PhD program. Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 1990. Send curriculum vitae, a one-page essay describing your interest in neural networks, and a letter from a faculty advisor to: Student Fellowships, Neural Networks Course, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879.