CFP

Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, December 9 -- Saturday December 14, 2002 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Submissions are solicited for the sixteenth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference, which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural and statistical processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. It is single track and highly selective. Preceding the main conference will be one day of tutorial presentations (Dec.9), and following it there will be two days of focused workshops on topical issues at Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort (Dec.13-14).

NIPS*2002 INVITED SPEAKERS: Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney: Information flow in sensor networks;

Paul Glimcher, New York University: Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain: Neuroeconomics;

Deborah Gordon, Stanford University: Ants at Work;

David Heeger, Stanford University: Neural Correlates of Perception and Attention

Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University: Statistical Data Mining;

Pietro Perona, Caltech: Learning visual categories;

NIPS*2002 TUTORIAL SPEAKERS: Martin Cooke: Computational auditory scene analysis in listeners and machines;

Richard M. Karp: Mathematical, Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology;

Michael Kearns: Computational game theory;

Andrew McCallum: Information extraction from the world wide web;

Sebastian Seung: Neural integrators;

Yair Weiss, Jianbo Shi & Serge Belongie: Eigenvector methods for clustering and image segmentation

SUBMISSIONS details and further information at conf. web site.

SUBMISSIONS MUST BE LOGGED BY MIDNIGHT JULY 1, 2002, PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME.

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