Workshop on Biologically Inspired Computing

[Wolfgang Maass]

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                       International Workshop on
                    BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COMPUTING
       November 19 and 20, 2004, at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
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This workshop has the goal to improve the collaboration between computer
scientists and neuroscientists on problems of common interests, such
as the investigation of computing and learning in biological neural
systems, and the design of biologically inspired computing machinery
with autonomous learning capability.

Apart from invited talks and tutorials, there will also be sessions for
the presentation of some submitted papers. This meeting will be quite
informal. It is hoped that this workshop will develop into series of
annual joint-meetings of computer scientists and neuroscientists.
Papers presented at this workshop will be made publicly available on a
webpage. If there exists sufficient interest we will also publish a book
or special issue of a journal with selected papers from this workshop.

Invited talks will be presented by

   Kazuyuki Aihara (The University of Tokyo, Japan
                    http://www.sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/index.html)
   Jianfeng Feng (Sussex University, UK

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/informatics_docs/research/bam/)
   Shigetoshi Nara (Okayama University, Japan)
   Rajesh P.N. Rao (University of Washington, USA
                    http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/rao/)
   Dan Roth (University of Illinois, USA
                    http://l2r.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr/)
   Ichiro Tsuda (Hokkaido University, Japan
                    http://www.math.hokudai.ac.jp/~tsuda/)
   Minoru Tsukada (Tamagawa University, Japan)

In addition Wolfgang Maass (http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/Welcome.html)
will give a tutorial on biologically inspired models of computation.

The workshop fee is 20,000 yen which includes admission to the workshop,
a copy of the proceedings, a welcome reception on November 18 at Tohoku
University, a banquet on November 19 at SENDAI EXCEL HOTEL TOKYU, and
two lunches. Please return your registration form attached by November
5, 2004.

For more information, contact

      Email : bic at maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
      URL   : http://www.maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/bic/

Organizers:   Wolfgang Maass (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
               Akira Maruoka (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)

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Paper submissions:
Extended abstracts (not exceeding 12 pages) with original new results
on the theme of this workshop should be submitted electronically by
October 15, to bic at maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp, including all authors'
names, contact author's name, mailing addresses, affiliation and email
addresses of all authors. All submissions will be reviewed by referees,
and notifications of acceptance will be sent out by October 31.
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Participation in the workshop:
There will be a registration fee of 20,000 yen, including admission to
the workshop, a copy of proceedings, a welcome reception on November 18
at Tohoku University, a banquet on November 19 at SENDAI EXCEL HOTEL
TOKYU, and two lunches. Please return the completed registration form by
November 5 to

         Email: bic at maruoka.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp
or
         Fax : +81-22-263-9413

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     International Workshop on  BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COMPUTING
                          REGISTRATION FORM
                         November 19--20,2004
                  Aoba Memorial Bldg.,Tohoku University,
                            Sendai, Japan

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Accommodation:
A block of rooms has been reserved for the participants of BIC04.
Reservations can be made by simply calling the hotel directly. Please
be sure to mention "BIC04" when making reservations by telephone by
November 5 to obtain the special rates.


                    SENDAI EXCEL HOTEL TOKYU

                2-9-25 Ichiban-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai-Shi
                Miyagi, Japan 980-0811

                Phone : +81-22-262-2412
                Fax :   +81-22-262-4109
                URL :   http://www.tokyuhotels.co.jp
                Email : sendai at tokyuhotel.co.jp

-- 
Wolfgang Maass
Professor of Computer Science
Technische Universitaet Graz
http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/