Reminder: NIPS Call for Papers / Workshops / Demos

[zoubin-nips@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk]

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	     CALL FOR PAPERS / WORKSHOPS / DEMONSTRATIONS

		Neural Information Processing Systems

	  Monday,  December 9 -- Saturday December 14, 2002
		 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

			    http://nips.cc
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Summary of Key Dates

  Paper Submission Deadline:		JULY 1, 2002 
  Workshop Proposal Deadline:		August 9, 2002
  Demonstration Proposal Deadline:	August 9, 2002
  Conference:				December 9-14, 2002

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


Please visit http://nips.cc for further details.