Registration for NIPS*2002

[S. Becker]

You are invited to attend the 15th Annual Conference of NIPS 2002, Neural
Information Processing Systems, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada and the Post-Conference Workshops at The Westin Resort in
Whistler, B.C.

Tutorials:  December 9, 2002
Conference:  December 10-12, 2002
Workshops:  December 12-14, 2002

The Conference Program is now online: http://www.nips.cc

We accepted 207 papers this year from a record 694 submissions, maintaining 
the same high quality with an acceptance rate of 30% as in previous years.

Sue Becker
General Chair

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NEW ONLINE REGISTRATION PROCESS: https://register.nips.salk.edu/

When registering for this year's meeting you will be asked to create an
account. We will retain the contact information that you provide and it
will be used for a NIPS Directory that will be posted on the NIPS
Foundation web site. You will be given the opportunity to choose exactly
what you would like to appear in the Directory, or you may choose not to be
listed at all. The NIPS Member Directory will be posted to the NIPS website
in January of 2003.
 
Our preferred method of registration is online, however, wire transfers and
checks will be accepted.  Even if you plan to pay using a check or wire
transfer, please begin the registration process online to prevent errors in
recording your contact information and to speed your registration processing.

Applications for financial/travel support can also be submitted online. 
The deadline for such applications is Friday, Oct 18 (midnight PST).

REGISTRATION  DEADLINE:  The early registration (with reduced registration fees) 
is November 8, 2002. 

REGISTRATION WEBSITE:  https://register.nips.salk.edu/ 

PROCEEDINGS: All registrants will receive a CD-ROM of the conference
proceedings.  Proceedings will also be available free online.  The 2 volume
soft-cover format, published by the MIT Press, can be purchased at the
special conference rate of $35.

We hope you will join us in Vancouver for an exciting new NIPS 2002

Terry Sejnowski
President, NIPS Foundation

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NIPS 2002 TUTORIALS - December 9, 2001
   
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania -- Computational Game Theory
Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT -- Neural Integrators  
Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University, and
Serge Belongie, UC San Diego -- Eigenvector Methods for Clustering and
  Image Segmentation  
Richard M. Karp, UC Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute -- 
  Mathematical, Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges from Genomics and
  Molecular Biology  
Martin Cooke, University of Sheffield -- Computational Auditory Scene
  Analysis in Listeners and Machines  
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, William Cohen,
  Carnegie Mellon University -- Information Extraction from the World Wide Web 
 
INVITED SPEAKERS - December 10-12, 2002
   
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, New York University -- Neural Correlates of Perception 
  and Attention  
Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University -- Statistical Data Mining  
Pietro Perona, Caltech -- Learning Visual Categories 
  
WORKSHOPS - December 12-14, 2002
    
Propagation Algorithms on Graphs with Cycles: Theory and Applications (2 day) -- 
  Shiro Ikeda, 	Toshiyuki Tanaka, Max Welling  
Computational Neuroimaging: Foundations, Concepts & Methods (2 day) --
  S. Hanson, B. Pearlmutter, S. Strother, L. Hansen, B. Martin-Bly  
Multi-Agent Learning: Theory and Practice (2 day) -- Gerald Tesauro,
  Michael L. Littman  
Independent Component Analysis and Beyond Stefan Harmeling -- Luis Borges
  de Almeida, Erkki Oja, Dinh-Tuan Pham  
Learning of Invariant Representations -- Konrad Paul Kording, Bruno A. Olshausen  
Quantum Neural Computing -- Elizabeth C. Behrman, James E. Steck  
Spectral Methods in Dimensionality Reduction, Clustering, and Classification --
  Josh Tenenbaum, Sam T. Roweis  
Universal Learning Algorithms and Optimal Search -- Juergen Schmidhuber,
  Marcus Hutter  
On Learning Kernels -- Nello Cristianini, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael Jordan,
  Gert Lanckriet  
Negative Results and Counter Examples -- Isabelle Guyon  
Neuromorphic Engineering in the Commercial World -- Timothy Horiuchi,
  Giacomo Indiveri, Ralph Etienne-Cummings  
Beyond Classification and Regression -- Learning Rankings, Preferences,
  Equality Predicates, and Other Structures Rich Caruana, Thorsten Joachims  
Statistical Methods for Computational Experiments in Visual Processing
  and Computer Vision -- Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper, Geof Givens, Ross J.
  Micheals, Jonathon Phillips  
Unreal Data: Principles of Modeling Nonvectorial Data --  Alex Smola, Gunnar
  Raetsch, Zoubin Ghahramani  
Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics -- Colin Campbell, Phil Long  
Adaptation -- Spatial and Temporal Effects on Coding Garrett B. Stanley  
Thalamocortical Processing in Audition and Vision -- Shihab A. Shamma,
  Anthony M. Zador 
 
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