Meetings

                  Eighth International Workshop on
                Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

                          January 4-7, 2001
			  Key West, Florida

http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/aistats2001/

PURPOSE:

This is the eighth in a series of workshops that has brought together
researchers in Artificial Intelligence and in Statistics to discuss
problems of mutual interest. The exchange has broadened research in
both fields and has strongly encouraged interdisciplinary work.

Attendance at the workshop is *not* limited to paper presenters.

TECHNICAL PROGRAM:

To encourage interaction and a broad exchange of ideas, there will be
19 discussion papers in single session meetings over three days
(Jan. 5-7). A poster session and brief plenary summaries of posters
prior to these sessions will provide the means for presenting and
discussing the remaining research papers. The full list of plenary
speakers and poster presentations is available from the conference
website

http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/aistats2001/

TUTORIAL PROGRAM:

The three days of research presentations will be preceded by a day of
tutorials that will begin the morning of January 4th. There is an
additional registration fee for the tutorials. See the on-line
registration form for details.

The tutorial topics and presenters are

 (1) David Edwards (Novo Nordisk A/S)
     "Graphical models for mixed data :
	an introduction to the theory and practice"

 (2) Yoav Freund    (AT&T Research)
     "Predicting More --
	Assuming Less, new methodologies in statistical	inference"

 (3) David MacKay  (University of Cambridge)
     "Error correcting codes and belief propagation"

LOCATION:

The 2001 Workshop will be held at

  Hyatt Key West
  601 Front Street
  Key West
  FL 33040
  USA

  Tel: 1-800-233-1234
         402-593-8800 (ask for reservations)

REGISTRATION AND LODGING DETAILS:

see http://www.ai.mit.edu/conferences/aistats2001/

Best regards,

Tommi Jaakkola & Thomas Richardson
Conference Chairs