From: IN%"mozer%dendrite.cs.colorado.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET" "Michael C. Mozer" 3-MAY-1993 12:44:55.60 To: IN%"connectionists%dendrite.cs.colorado.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET" CC: Subj: Final call for NIPS workshop proposals CALL FOR PROPOSALS NIPS*93 Post-Conference Workshops December 3 and 4, 1993 Vail, Colorado Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 1993 conference, workshops on current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 3 and 4, 1993, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: active learning and control; architectural issues; attention; bayesian analysis; benchmarking neural network applications; computational complexity issues; computational neuroscience; fast training techniques; genetic algorithms; music; neural network dynamics; optimization; recurrent nets; rules and connectionist models; self- organization; sensory biophysics; speech; time series prediction; vision; and VLSI and optical implementations. The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Concrete open and/or controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: arranging short informal presentations by experts working on the topic, moderating or leading the discussion and reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the "gong show"), and writing a brief (2 page) summary. Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 22, 1993. (Express mail is *not* necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be accepted.) Proposals should include a title, a description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, and the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days). It should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of interest. Mail submissions to: Mike Mozer NIPS*93 Workshops Chair Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA (e-mail: mozer@cs.colorado.edu) Name, mailing address, phone number, fax number, and e-mail net address should be on all submissions. PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 22, 1993 Please Post Return-path: Received: from fpsp.fapesp.br by ccvax.unicamp.br (PMDF #2801 ) id <01GXQM7BNMA891W3IL@ccvax.unicamp.br>; Mon, 3 May 1993 12:43:57 BSC (-0300 C) Received: from CARNEGIE.BITNET (MAILER@CARNEGIE) by brfapesp.bitnet with PMDF#10108; Mon, 3 May 1993 12:36 BSC (-0300 C) Received: from Q.CS.CMU.EDU by BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU (PMDF #2869 ) id <01GXQI0SA45C000BYW@BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU>; Mon, 3 May 1993 10:42:49 EDT Received: from Q.CS.CMU.EDU by Q.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03946; 2 May 93 1:18:20 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by Q.CS.CMU.EDU id aa03944; 2 May 93 0:58:23 EDT Received: from DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU by DST.BOLTZ.CS.CMU.EDU id aa09119; 2 May 93 0:58:00 EDT Received: from EDRC.CMU.EDU by B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa27247; 1 May 93 15:43:15 EDT Received: from neuron.cs.colorado.edu by EDRC.CMU.EDU id aa06624; 1 May 93 15:42:29 EDT Received: by neuron.cs.colorado.edu id AA13154 (5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 for connectionists); Sat, 1 May 1993 13:42:26 -0600 Date: 01 May 1993 13:42:26 -0600 From: "Michael C. Mozer" Subject: Final call for NIPS workshop proposals To: connectionists%dendrite.cs.colorado.edu@CARNEGIE.BITNET Message-id: <199305011942.AA13154@neuron.cs.colorado.edu> X-Envelope-to: SABBATINI Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT