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NEURAL NETWORKS COURSE AND CONFERENCE AT
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
NEURAL NETWORKS: FROM FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS
May 5-10, 1991
This self-contained 5-day course is sponsored by the Boston University
Wang Institute, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Graduate Program in
Cognitive and Neural Systems. The course provides a systematic
interdisciplinary introduction to the biology, computation, mathematics,
and technology of neural networks. 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.
Registration fee: $985 (professional) and $275 (student). Fee includes
lectures, course notebooks, receptions, meals, coffee services, and
evening discussion sessions.
NEURAL NETWORKS FOR VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING
May 10-12, 1991
This research conference at the Wang Institute will present invited
lectures and contributed posters, herewith solicited, ranging from visual
neurobiology and psychophysics through computational modelling to
technological applications. Invited speakers include: Stuart Anstis,
Jacob Beck, Gail A. Carpenter, David Casasent, John Daugman, Robert
Desimone, Stephen Grossberg, Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Ralph Linsker,
Ennio Mingolla, Alex Pentland, V.S. Ramachandran, Eric Schwartz,
George Sperling, James Todd, and Alex Waxman. A featured Poster
Session will be held on May 11. To present a poster, submit 3 copies
of an abstract (1 single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1991,
for refereeing. Include with the abstract the author's name, address,
and telephone number. Mail to VIP 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. Registration fee: $95 (professionals) and $75 (student). Fee
includes lectures and poster session, abstract book, reception, meals,
and coffee services.
TO REGISTER: For one or both events by phone, call (508) 649-9731 with VISA
or MasterCard between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (EST). For a meeting brochure, call
as above or write: Neural Networks, Wang Institute of Boston University,
72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879.
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