CFP

         Neural Information Processing Systems
              Natural and Synthetic
        Monday,  Dec. 3 -- Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001
          Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
               Whistler Ski Resort

This is the fifteenth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which
brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers,
neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians
interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation.  The
conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster
presentations of refereed papers.  The conference is single track and
is highly selective.  Preceding the main session, there will be one
day of tutorial presentations (Dec. 3), and following it there will be
two days of focused workshops on topical issues at Whistler Ski Resort
(Dec. 7-8).  Invited speakers this year will be:

Barbara Finlay (Dept of Psychology, Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University)
Alison Gopnik (Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley)
Jon M. Kleinberg (Department of Computer Science, Cornell University)
Shihab Shamma (Department of Electrical Engineering University of Maryland)
Judea Pearl (Department of Computer Science, UCLA)
Tom Knight (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT)

Detailed conference information available at

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS

PAPERS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY JUNE 20, 2001