Connectionists: New game!

[Isabelle Guyon]

Dear Colleagues,

A new challenge has stated:

==> AGNOSTIC LEARNING vs. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE <==
      http://www.agnostic.inf.ethz.ch/

You will get to compete on 5 classification problems for which
you are provided with both the raw data and preprocessed data,
thus have the opportunity to either embed domain knowledge into
your classifier or have a more "black box" approach.

==> Workshops <==
The results of the challenge will be discussed at 2 workshops:

   1) NIPS 2006 workshop on multi-level inference
http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/NIPS2006/
The agnostic learning track of the challenge is used to implement a
model selection game. Win one of two  prizes (and get to ski
at Whistler!)

   2) IJCNN 2007 workshop on agnostic learning vs. prior knowledge
http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/agnostic/
Other prizes will be awarded (TBA).

==> Publications <==

To submit a full length paper on model selection, see the call for paper:
http://clopinet.com/isabelle/Projects/modelselect/call-for-papers.html

The results of the challenge can be submitted to IJCNN 2007 to be 
published in the proceedings.

The book on feature extraction with the results of the first challenge 
is now available:
http://clopinet.com/fextract-book/

We are looking forward to your participation!

The organizers