From erik at oist.jp Wed Dec 1 21:32:06 2010 From: erik at oist.jp (Erik De Schutter) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:32:06 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course 2011 Message-ID: OKINAWA COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE COURSE 2011 Methods, Neurons, Networks and Behaviors June 13 - June 30, 2011. Okinawa, Japan http://www.irp.oist.jp/ocnc/2011 The aim of the Okinawa Computational Neuroscience Course is to provide opportunities for young researchers with theoretical backgrounds to learn the latest advances in neuroscience, and for those with experimental backgrounds to have hands-on experience in computational modeling. We invite graduate students and postgraduate researchers to participate in the course, held from June 13th through June 30th, 2011 at an oceanfront seminar house of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology. Applications are through the course web page only; they will open January 3rd and close February 14th, 2011. Applicants are required to propose a project at the time of application. Applicants will receive confirmation of acceptance in March. Like in preceding years, OCNC will be a comprehensive three-week course covering single neurons, networks, and behaviors with ample time for student projects. The first week will focus exclusively on methods with hands-on tutorials during the afternoons, while the second and third weeks will have lectures by international experts. We invite those who are interested in integrating experimental and computational approaches at each level, as well as in bridging different levels of complexity. The sponsor will provide lodging and meals during the course and support travel for those without funding. We hope that this course will be a good opportunity for theoretical and experimental neuroscientists to meet each other and to explore the attractive nature and culture of Okinawa, the southernmost island prefecture of Japan. Invited faculty: ? Brenner, Sydney ? De Schutter, Erik ? Doya, Kenji ? Ermentrout, Bard ? Gerstner, Wulfram ? Haruno, Masahiko ? Jeff, Wickens ? Li, Zhaoping ? McCormick, David ? Nicolelis, Miguel ? Prinz, Astrid ? Seung, Sebastian ? Stevens, Chuck ? Stiefel, Klaus ? Yu, Angela From jose at psychology.rutgers.edu Thu Dec 2 08:45:24 2010 From: jose at psychology.rutgers.edu (Stephen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Hanson) Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:45:24 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: COMPUTATIONAL NEUROIMAGING-- POSTDOC Message-ID: <1291297524.2990.23.camel@max> Please see attached ad -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Many challenges are also present in other applications of pattern recognition, such as non-stationary distributions, model regularisation, high-dimensional time series, or causality modeling. Following the success of the first Workshop on Brain Decoding (Istanbul, 2010), this three-day workshop aims at providing an opportunity for discussing recent advances in methods and applications, while trying to narrow the gap between imaging modalities. A subfield where discussion is of special interest is that of real-time methods, as they are at the confluence of modalities (EEG/fMRI) and at the forefront of machine learning research (incremental learning, non-i.i.d. data). Interpretability of classification and regression machines is also critical to increasing interactions between methods and application-oriented researchers, and is of particular interest for this workshop. Several travel scholarships will be available for Ph.D. students and post-docs, and will be awarded competitively based on reviewer scores of the papers. Keynote speakers will include Stephen Strother (University of Toronto, Canada) Stephen LaConte (Baylor College of Medicine, USA) SCOPE The workshop welcomes original contributions using relevant modalities (e.g. functional/structural MRI, EEG, ECoG, MEG) including the following areas: * Data representation Voxel / channel / feature selection Linear and non-linear dimensionality reduction Sparse time-course representations Interpretability and validation * High-dimensional learning Regularisation Transfer learning Multimodal / ensemble classification Incremental / online learning and adaptation * Applications Cognitive, affective, and social neurosciences Man-machine interfaces Clinical applications SUBMISSION AND PROCEEDINGS Authors should prepare full 4-pages papers (double-column, IEEE style). Extended abstract are not accepted. The review process will be double-blind. Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Science Society in electronic format. They will be permantently available on the IEEExplore and IEEE CS Digital Library online repositories, and indexed in IEE INSPEC, EI Compendex (Elsevier), Thomson ISI, and others. DATES AND DEADLINES Full paper submission: December 17th, 2010 Acceptance notification: January 31st, 2011 Travel scholarship notification: February 15th, 2011 Camera-ready paper: March 1st, 2011 Workshop: May 16-18, 2011 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE R. Abugharbieh (U. of British Columbia, CA) T. Adali (U. of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA) J. Ashburner (UCL, UK) B. Blankertz (TU Berlin, DE) M. Brammer (King's College London, UK) V. Calhoun (Yale, USA) C. Chu (NIH, USA) T. Ethofer (U. T(IC<(Bbingen, DE) C. Gaser (U. Jena, DE) P. Golland (MIT, USA) L. Grosenick (Stanford, USA) G. Hamarneh (Simon Fraser U., CA) D. Hardoon (Inst. for Infocomm Research, SG) T. Jiang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN) K. Kryszczuk (IBM Research, CH) G. Langs (MIT, USA) F. Lotte (A*STAR, SG) A. Marquand (UCL, UK) J. Meynet (Bestofmedia Group, FR) J. Sato (Federal U. of ABC, BR) S. Schwartz (U. of Geneva, CH) N. Schuff (UCSF, USA) B. Thirion (Neurospin, FR) P. Vemuri (Mayo Clinic, USA) P. Vuilleumier (U. of Geneva, CH) M. Van Hulle (K.U. Leuven, BE) ORGANISING COMMITTEE General Chairs: S.-W Lee (Korea University, KR), C. Davatzikos (U. of Pennsylvania, USA), D. Van De Ville (EPFL/U. of Geneva, CH) Program Chairs: J. Richiardi (EPFL/U. of Geneva, CH), J. Mour(IC#(Bo-Miranda (UCL/King's College, UK), Y. Kamitani (ATR, JP) Tutorial Chair: F. Pereira (Princeton U., USA) Local Arrangements Chair: J.-H. Lee (Korea University, KR) Publication Chair: C. Wallraven (Korea University, KR) Finance Chair: J. Kwag (Korea University, KR) Registration Chair: S.-P. Kim (Korea University, KR) From jeffclune at cornell.edu Sat Dec 4 00:08:26 2010 From: jeffclune at cornell.edu (Jeff Clune) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:08:26 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: Generative and Developmental Systems Track, GECCO 2011, Call for Papers and Participation Message-ID: GENERATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS TRACK 2011 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2011) http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011 Dear Connectionists, We wanted to bring to your attention a new venue that may be of interest to some Connectionists: the Generative and Developmental Systems (GDS) track at GECCO 2011, which is the premier conference for GDS-related work worldwide. GDS is the study of indirect representations (also known as generative or developmental encodings), which are often inspired by biological development, where complex phenotypes are grown from compact genomes. The aim of such systems is to exploit powerful representations that efficiently encode complex structures. In recent years, GDS approaches have increasingly focused on encoding large-scale neural structures, which is why it is relevant to Connectionists. Such approaches aim to evolve brain-like structures with a high number of connections and regular connectivity patterns. Our program committee of GDS experts means that your paper will be reviewed by many leaders in the field. Moreover, the attendance and enthusiasm at the GDS track has increased every year since it started in 2007. The size and prestige of the GECCO conference will allow many researchers to learn about your work who might be outside your traditional area, both at the conference and via the proceedings (GECCO has the highest impact rating of all conferences in the field of Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life*). Traditionally, GDS has focused on mappings that involve a developmental stage, implemented in a variety of ways including re-write systems and cell chemistry simulations. However, GDS concerns a wide range of indirect encodings, including high-level abstractions of biological development and environmental interactions. GDS research both sheds light on biological development and furthers engineering goals by harnessing generative representations for evolutionary design. Overall, GDS concerns a wide range of indirect representations concerned with the genotype-phenotype map and encourages comparison, discussion, and analysis of the advantages and relationships among various representations. The GDS track is also open to papers regarding applications of generative encodings to interesting problems. We invite all papers related to GDS, including those in the following subject areas: artificial development, artificial embryogeny, compositional pattern producing networks (CPPNs), computational embryology, developmental encodings, evolutionary design, generative representations, genetic regulatory networks (GRNs), indirect encodings, genotype to phenotype mappings, procedural representations, Lindenmayer Systems (L-Systems), etc. For more information, visit the GDS Community webpage at gds.wikispot.org IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: January 26, 2011 * Notification of paper acceptance: March 23, 2011 * Camera-ready submission: April 8, 2011 * GECCO-2010 Conference: July 12-16, 2011 The conference will be held in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, please see the GDS track description at: http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2011/organizers-tracks.html#gds Best Regards, Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby 2011 GECCO GDS Track Chairs * http://www.cs-conference-ranking.org/conferencerankings/topicsii.html GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA, 1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global). Best regards, Jeff Clune Postdoctoral Fellow Hod Lipson's Computational Synthesis Laboratory Cornell University jeffclune at cornell.edu www.msu.edu/~jclune **Call for papers! Generative and Developmental Systems Track, GECCO 2011 (Dublin). Deadline Jan. 26th.** From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Mon Dec 6 15:04:26 2010 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr Amir Hussain) Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 20:04:26 -0000 Subject: Connectionists: Springer's Cognitive Computation journal: Table of Contents, Vol. 2, No.4 / December 2010 issue Message-ID: <067701cb9580$c9ab2460$0201a8c0@drlaptop> Dear Colleagues: (with advance apologies for any cross-postings!) We are delighted to announce the publication of Volume 2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, of Springer's Cognitive Computation journal - www.springer.com/12559 You will be pleased to know that ALL (full) published articles in Cognitive Computation are FREELY AVAILABLE for access/download through December 31, 2010. The full listing of Vol.2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, (in PDF) can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/4/ The individual list of published articles (Table of Contents) for Vol. 2, No. 4 / Dec 2010, can also be found at the end of this message (followed by an overview of the previous Issues/Archive). Other 'Online First' published articles not yet in a print issue can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/121361/?Content+Status=Accepted ========================================== Reminder: New Cognitive Computation "LinkedIn" Group: ========================================== To further strengthen the bonds amongst the interdisciplinary audience of Cognitive Computation, we have now set-up a "Cognitive Computation LinkedIn group". Within this group you all have the possibility to start a discussion with your fellow researchers - e.g. on future topics in Cognitive Computation - or to post a job vacancy or news item - e.g. forthcoming conferences or seminars. On a regular basis you will also receive a digest of the group's activity (including the journal's Table of Contents Alert, Call for Papers for forthcoming Special Issues, lists of most cited, downloaded and On-line First published papers). For those of you unfamiliar with LinkedIn (the world's largest professional network site), you can find more information by visiting LinkedIn 101: http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/LinkedIn+101.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-957440-0 - We are confident that this group (which has already grown to over 70 members!) will be an invaluable addition to the Cognitive Computation community and we warmly invite you to join us at: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3155048! For further information on the journal and to sign up for electronic "Table of Contents alerts" please visit the Cognitive Computation homepage: http://www.springer.com/12559 or follow us on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/CognComput for the latest On-line First Issues. For any questions with regards to LinkedIn and/or Twitter, please contact Springer's Publishing Editor: Dr. Martijn Roelandse: martijn.roelandse at springer.com Finally, we would like to invite you to submit short or regular papers describing original research or timely review of important areas - our aim is to peer review all papers within approximately four weeks of receipt. We also welcome relevant high quality proposals for Special Issues (four are already planned for 2011-12!). With our very best wishes to all aspiring readers and authors of Cognitive Computation, Amir Hussain, PhD (Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation) E-mail: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Igor Aleksander, PhD (Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Cognitive Computation) John Taylor, PhD (Chair, Advisory Board: Cognitive Computation) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: Springer's Cognitive Computation, Vol.2, No.4 / Dec 2010 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.springer.com/12559 All issues FREE ACCESS in 2010! Special Issue: Advances in Computational Intelligence and Applications - ISNN 2010; Guest Editors: Zhigang Zeng and Haibo He Special Issue Editorial: Advances in Computational Intelligence and Applications Zhigang Zeng and Haibo He http://www.springerlink.com/content/0j7161814067rt25/ Controlling Chaotic Associative Memory for Multiple Pattern Retrieval Jeremiah D. Deng http://www.springerlink.com/content/n8272h073477v328/ A Simple Recurrent Network for Implicit Learning of Temporal Sequences Stefan Gl?ge, Oussama H. Hamid and Andreas Wendemuth http://www.springerlink.com/content/g5200443n5m41372/ Using the Maximum Entropy Method for Natural Language Processing: Category Estimation, Feature Extraction, and Error Correction Masaki Murata, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, Masao Utiyama, Qing Ma and Ryo Nishimura, et al. http://www.springerlink.com/content/p0198rx0u71v1627/ A Connectionist Study on the Interplay of Nouns and Pronouns in Personal Pronoun Acquisition Artem Kaznatcheev http://www.springerlink.com/content/9t456l7160427430/ Multiclass Pattern Recognition Extension for the New C-Mantec Constructive Neural Network Algorithm Jos? L. Subirats, Jos? M. Jerez, Iv?n G?mez and Leonardo Franco http://www.springerlink.com/content/h45521w057161467/ Detection of Double MP3 Compression Qingzhong Liu, Andrew H. Sung and Mengyu Qiao http://www.springerlink.com/content/x267472v83407311/ Face Recognition with Quantum Associative Networks Using Overcomplete Gabor Wavelet Nuo Wi Tay, Chu Kiong Loo and Mitja Peru? http://www.springerlink.com/content/87l87n74v131g4lm/ Gaussian Shape Descriptor for Palmprint Authentication Ping Zheng http://www.springerlink.com/content/m71m512jn1370324/ Application of Model Based Diagnosis for Diagnosing Faults in the High-speed Maglev's Traction Power Supply System Zhigang Liu, Tongjie Liu and Wei Zhong http://www.springerlink.com/content/l5835641l5873g72/ Embodied Object Recognition using Adaptive Target Observations Marcus Wallenberg and Per-Erik Forss?n http://www.springerlink.com/content/ct335n853548m603/ Where to Look Next? Combining Static and Dynamic Proto-objects in a TVA-based Model of Visual Attention Marco Wischnewski, Anna Belardinelli, Werner X. Schneider and Jochen J. Steil http://www.springerlink.com/content/2r610h802m498644/ A Functional and Statistical Bottom-Up Saliency Model to Reveal the Relative Contributions of Low-Level Visual Guiding Factors Tien Ho-Phuoc, Nathalie Guyader and Anne Gu?rin-Dugu? http://www.springerlink.com/content/p3476122238q2g30/ A Position Identification and Path Labelling Mechanism for a Neural Model of Visual Awareness Sunil Rao and Igor Aleksander http://www.springerlink.com/content/4n68748750463751/ -- ----------------------------------------- Previous Issues/Archive: Overview ----------------------------------------- The full listing of the Inaugural Vol. 1, No. 1 / March 2009, can be viewed here (which included invited authoritative reviews by leading researchers in their areas - including keynote papers from London University's John Taylor, Igor Aleksander and Stanford University's James McClelland, and invited papers from Ron Sun, Pentti Haikonen, Geoff Underwood, Kevin Gurney, Claudius Gross, Anil Seth and Tom Ziemke): http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/1/ The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 2 / June 2009, can be viewed here (which included invited reviews and original research contributions from leading researchers, including Giacomo Indiveri, Rodney Douglas, Jurgen Schmidhuber, Thomas Wennekers, Pentti Kanerva and Friedemann Pulvermuller): http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/2/ The full listing of Vol.1, No. 3 / Sep 2009, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/3/ The full listing of Vol. 1, No. 4 / Dec 2009, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/1/4/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 1 / March 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/1/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 2 / June 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/2/ The full listing of Vol.2, No. 3 / Aug 2010, can be viewed here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/1866-9956/2/3/ -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. From john.lee at uclouvain.be Mon Dec 6 12:08:39 2010 From: john.lee at uclouvain.be (John Lee) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:08:39 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: ICCS 2011 workshop on High-dimensional Data Visualization: CFP Message-ID: <4CFD1897.8070103@uclouvain.be> ****************************************************************************** Call for papers ICCS 2011 workshop on High-dimensional Data Visualization A workshop in conjunction with the ICCS 2011 conference, International Conference on Computational Science, Tsukuba (Japan), June 1-3, 2011 http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011 ****************************************************************************** (Apologizes for cross-postings) Deadline for submission of papers: January 8, 2011 Short overview (see http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011 for more detailed CFP): Data visualization plays an important role in data analysis and mining, by helping to find specificities of data (clusters, outliers, densities,...) that in turn determine the choice for analysis tools and algorithms. Recently, there has been an increasing scientific activity in the development of nonlinear algorithms for visualizing data, in the contexts of nonlinear dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. While algorithms are now established, there is still a lack of applicability in real-world situations, on high-dimensional data, and of objective criteria to assess the quality of the visualization. This workshop will concentrate on recent developments, including the applicability to high-dimensional data, the methodology to choose methods, and their objective evaluation. Workshop organizers: Michel Verleysen, Universit? cat. Louvain (Belgium), michel.verleysen at uclouvain.be Fabrice Rossi, T?l?com ParisTech (France), fabrice.rossi at telecom-paristech.fr John Lee,Universit? cat. Louvain (Belgium), john.lee at uclouvain.be Paper submission and format : See http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/~verleyse/ICCS%202011 for detailed instructions. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101206/93de3d3e/attachment-0001.html From david.dowe at monash.edu Sat Dec 4 12:11:42 2010 From: david.dowe at monash.edu (David Dowe (Infotech)) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 18:11:42 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Solomonoff 85th memorial conf', Nov/Dec 2011, 1st Call for Papers Message-ID: Solomonoff 85th memorial conf', Nov/Dec 2011, 1st Call for Papers (Apologies for cross-postings.) RAY SOLOMONOFF (1926-2009) 85th MEMORIAL CONFERENCE 1st Call for Papers Melbourne, Australia Wedn 30/Nov/2011 - Fri 2/Dec/2011 Submission deadline: 20 May 2011 www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu.au Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009) was the originator (in 1964) of algorithmic information theory. Solomonoff's (1964) work preceded the slightly later independent work of Kolmogorov (1965) [from whom we have the term Kolmogorov complexity], shortly before the not unrelated work of the then teenage G. J. Chaitin (1966). But, unlike the slightly later Kolmogorov and Chaitin, Solomonoff (1964) also saw the relevance of this new area to statistics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and prediction - and coined the term algorithmic probability (ALP). Given a body of data, the algorithmic probability distribution behind Solomonoff prediction is obtained by doing a posterior-weighted averaging of the outputs of all available computable theories - with the prior probabilities of theories depending (monotonically decreasingly) upon the lengths of their encodings on the chosen Universal Turing Machine (UTM). Independently of and shortly after the above was the Minimum Message Length (MML) work of Wallace and Boulton (1968), based on very similar Bayesian information-theoretic principles but instead focussing on the one single best model for statistical and inductive inference (and whose relationship with algorithmic information theory was formalised in the 1990s). The related Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle followed a decade later in Rissanen (1978), co-incidentally taking the same form as Schwarz's (1978) Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) of the same year - and with some approaches [such as the still popular but largely unrelated Akaike's Information Criterion (AIC)] formed after MML but before MDL. The (algorithmic) information theory behind both Solomonoff prediction and (the two-part form of) MML inference (or model selection and point estimation) leads to a variety of statistical consistency (or convergence) results - apparently more general than for other approaches - and likewise makes the results of both approaches statistically invariant to re-parameterisation. These approaches - both the MML inductive or inferential approach to choosing the single ``best'' model and the Solomonoff predictive approach of weighting over the posterior to form a predictive distribution - are two of at least as many approaches from (Kolmogorov complexity or) algorithmic information theory which have been applied to a range of areas. Such areas include (e.g.) statistical inference (and model selection and point estimation) and prediction, machine learning, econometrics (including time series and panel data), in principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, knowledge discovery and ``data mining'', theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of (universal) intelligence test (for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life), philosophy of science, the problem of induction, bioinformatics, linguistics, evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, geography, climate modelling and bush-fire detection, environmental science, image processing, spectral analysis, engineering, arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, etc. Of course, this list will continue to grow and is not exhaustive. Perhaps Solomonoff's next main contribution was the notion of ``infinity point'' (Solomonoff, 1985), later referred to as the ``singularity'', where machine intelligence catches up to and overtakes human intelligence - an increasingly discussed scenario which forms the basis of many science fiction films. Solomonoff's obituary from the New York Times (January 2010) is at www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/science/10solomonoff.html , duplicated at www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html#rjs . In the year in which Ray Solomonoff would have had his 85th birthday and some weeks before the year in which Alan Turing (upon whose Universal Turing Machines much of Solomonoff's work is based) would have turned 100, this multi-disclipinary conference is timed for late 2011. It also follows on 15 years after the Information, Statistics and Induction in Science (ISIS) conference in 1996 and also held in Melbourne, Australia - whose invited speakers included Ray Solomonoff, (Turing Award winner and fellow artificial intelligence pioneer) Marvin Minsky, Jorma Rissanen (of Minimum Description Length [MDL]) and (prominent machine learning researcher) J. Ross Quinlan. The contributions sought for this Solomonoff 85th memorial conference are the abovementioned themes and/or anything (else) directly or at least indirectly comparing with or building upon Solomonoff's work. This inter-disciplinary conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia. The conference will run for three days, from Wedn 30 November 2011 to Friday 2 December 2011, but might possibly be preceded by a day or half-day of workshops and/or tutorials on Tues 29 November 2011. Conference proceedings will be fully-refereed and published with a suitable prestigious publisher. Selected papers on suitable topics might be chosen to be expanded upon for journal special issues. Program Committee: Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale Univ, U.S.A. Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research, U.S.A. Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame Univ, Lebanon Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, Univ Miami, U.S.A. David Dowe (Conference and Program chair), Monash Univ Peter Gacs, Boston University, U.S.A. Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway Univ London, England Marcus Hutter, Australian National Univ (ANU) Leonid Levin, Boston University, U.S.A. Ming Li, Mathematics, U Waterloo, Canada Kee Siong Ng, ANU (Australia) & EMC Corp Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash Univ, Australia Paul Vitanyi, CWI, Amsterdam, Holland Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway Univ London, England www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu.au Submission deadline: 20 May 2011 Conference dates: Wedn 30/Nov/2011 - Fri 2/Dec/2011 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101204/5078a3e1/attachment-0001.html From bowlby at bu.edu Wed Dec 8 12:32:20 2010 From: bowlby at bu.edu (Brian Bowlby) Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:32:20 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: 15th ICCNS conference: Call for Abstracts and Confirmed Invited Speakers Message-ID: <42A1400A-3CB5-45F3-81A7-472444814060@bu.edu> FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS May 11?14, 2011 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 USA http://cns.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by the Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (http://cns.bu.edu/), and Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology (http://celest.bu.edu) with financial support from the National Science Foundation This interdisciplinary conference is attended each year by approximately 300 people from 30 countries around the world. As in previous years, the conference will focus on solutions to the questions: HOW DOES THE BRAIN CONTROL BEHAVIOR? HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY EMULATE BIOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE? The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, cognitive science, neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. It includes invited lectures and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is particularly interested in exploring how the brain and biologically-inspired algorithms and systems in engineering and technology can learn. Single-track oral and poster sessions enable all presented work to be highly visible. Three-hour poster sessions with no conflicting events will be held on two of the conference days. Posters will be up all day, and can also be viewed during breaks in the talk schedule. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS Edward Adelson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) The perception of materials and surfaces George Alvarez (Harvard University) How does neural architecture constrain attentional selection? Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) Action video games as an exemplary learning tool Ed Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Controlling brain circuits with light: New tools for analyzing neural systems Marvin Chun (Yale University) Competitive interactions in memory encoding and retrieval James DiCarlo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Untangling object recognition in the ventral visual stream Howard Eichenbaum (Boston University) The hippocampus in space and time Michale Fee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Prime movers of the brain: Neural circuits that drive complex motor behavior Michael Goldberg (Columbia University) [Plenary Speaker] Attention and arousal in the parietal cortex Stephen Grossberg (Boston University) Neural dynamics of social cognition: Circular reactions for imitative behaviors Takao Hensch (Harvard University) Shaping neural circuits by early experience Nancy Kopell (Boston University) [Plenary Speaker] Multiple gamma rhythms and their functional implications Laurence Maloney (New York University) Perception, action, and uncertainty John Maunsell (Harvard Medical School) A neuronal population code for attentional state Michael Paradiso (Brown University) Saccadic eye movements and their role in neural coding and perception Ning Qian (Columbia University) Low- and high-level contributions to face perception: An adaptation study Kamal Sen (Boston University) At a cocktail party for songbirds David Sheinberg (Brown University) From shape to action Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (Boston University) Understanding individual differences in auditory attention: From physiology to behavior Herbert Terrace (Columbia University) [Plenary Speaker] Missing links in the evolution of language Steven Zucker (Yale University) Learning long-range horizontal connections in visual cortex CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * object recognition * image understanding * neural circuit models * audition * neural system models * speech and language * mathematics of neural systems * unsupervised learning * robotics * supervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * reinforcement and emotion * neuromorphic VLSI * sensory-motor control * industrial applications * cognition, planning, and attention * other * spatial mapping and navigation Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 31, 2011. Email notification of acceptance will be provided by February 28, 2011. A meeting registration fee must accompany each abstract. The fee will be refunded if the abstract is not accepted for presentation. Fees of accepted abstracts will be returned upon written request only until April 8, 2011. Abstracts must not exceed one 8.5"x11" page in length, with 1" margins on top, bottom, and both sides in a single-column format with a font of 10 points or larger. The title, authors, affiliations, surface, and email addresses should begin each abstract. A separate cover letter should include the abstract title; name and contact information for corresponding and presenting authors; requested preference for oral or poster presentation; and a first and second choice from the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work [Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system models (B)]. Contributed talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be displayed for a full day. Overhead, slide, and computer projector facilities will be available for talks. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings volume. No extended paper will be required. Abstracts should be submitted electronically as Word files to cindy at bu.edu using the phrase ?15th ICCNS abstract submission? in the subject line or as paper hard copy (four copies of the abstract with one copy of the cover letter and the registration form) to Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, CNS Department, 677 Beacon Street, Boston MA 02215USA. Fax submissions of the abstract will not be accepted. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended using the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. 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There is a growing recognition - across many disciplines - that phenomena of life and mind, including cognition and representation, are emergents of far-from-equilibrium, interactive, autonomous systems. Mind and biology, mind and agent, are being re- united. The classical treatment of cognition and representation within a formalist framework of encodingist assumptions is widely recognized as a fruitless maze of blind alleys. From neurobiology to robotics, from cognitive science to philosophy of mind and language, dynamic and interactive alternatives are being explored. Dynamic systems approaches and autonomous agent research join in the effort. The conference will involve both tutorials addressing central parts and aspects of the interactive model, and papers addressing current work of relevance to this general approach. This will be our sixth Summer Institute; the first was in 2001 at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, the second in 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the third in 2005 at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA, the fourth in 2007 at The American University in Paris, and the fifth in 2009 at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. The Summer Institute is a biennial meeting where those sharing the core ideas of interactivism will meet and discuss their work, try to reconstruct its historical roots, put forward current research in different fields that fits the interactivist framework, and define research topics for prospective graduate students. People working in philosophy of mind, linguistics, social sciences, artificial intelligence, cognitive robotics, theoretical biology, and other fields related to the sciences of mind are invited to send their paper submission or statement of interest for participation to the organizers. http://www.lehigh.edu/%7einteract/isi2011web/index.htm Mark H. 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They shape their topic by selecting invited speakers and project leaders and by suggesting topic area projects. Topic area leaders will also be involved in the selection of workshop applicants. *Topic areas can span a large field; we are looking for leadership in planning activities and inviting good people in a field.* Although past topic areas have tended to be very broad and discipline-oriented (e.g., cognition, audition, vision, robotics, neural interfacing, neuromorphic VLSI, etc.), new application-oriented topic areas (e.g., sensor fusion, game-playing robot, etc.) are also desirable. *Topics that incorporate neuromorphic cognition are especially welcome.* Teams of two organizers are required. One of the organizers should be an attendee of a previous Telluride Workshop (in any capacity) for at least one week. *The maximum 2-page proposals should include:* 1. Title of topic area. 2. Two topic leaders and their affiliation and contact information. 3. A paragraph explaining the focus and goals of the topic area. 4. A list of possible specific topic area projects. 5. A list of example invitees (up to six names and institutions). No commitments necessary. 6. Any other material that fits within the two-page limit that will help us make a smart choice. *Send your topic area proposal* in pdf or text format to organizers11 at neuromorphs.net with subject line containing "topic area proposal". *Proposals must be received by Monday, 10 January 2011*; proposals received after that deadline may still be considered if space is available. *Resources limit the workshop to roughly 4 topic areas*, each with 5 invitees*.* If your proposal for the topic area is not accepted, we will work with you to see if there is a natural way to include your ideas (and you) into the accepted topic areas. We hope to have significant turn-over each year in the topic areas and leaders to ensure fresh new ideas and participants. See the Institute of Neuromorphic Engineering (www.ine-web.org ) for background information on the workshop and neuromorphs.net for past workshop wikis. We look forward to your topic proposals! The Workshop Directors: Ralph Etienne-Cummings (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Timmer Horiuchi (Univ. of Maryland) Tobi Delbruck (University of Zurich and ETH Zurich) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101209/4aedef5c/attachment.html From aag at soi.city.ac.uk Fri Dec 10 10:35:44 2010 From: aag at soi.city.ac.uk (Artur d'Avila Garcez) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:35:44 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Connectionists: New PhD studentships at City University London Message-ID: ++++++ please circulate ++++++ If you would like to do a PhD on neural-symbolic computation (including applications in cognitive robotics, software verification, general game playing, fraud prevention and video classification), please contact Artur Garcez at aag at soi.city.ac.uk. City University London is offering 75 fully-funded, full-time, 3-year PhD studentships starting from October 2011. Applications are sought from exceptional UK and overseas graduates. Each studentship provides: an annual bursary of 15,000 for 2011-12 (expected to rise in line with inflation in subsequent years), a full tuition fee waiver, and a one-off allowance of 1,000 for activities in support of the research. Studentships are available to UK, EU and overseas students. How to apply: http://www.city.ac.uk/research/resdegrees/applications.html Application deadline: Monday, 31 January 2011. Best regards, Artur Garcez ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Artur d'Avila Garcez Reader in Neural-Symbolic Computation Dept. of Computing City University London www.soi.city.ac.uk/~aag From ASAHTan at ntu.edu.sg Mon Dec 13 22:02:31 2010 From: ASAHTan at ntu.edu.sg (Tan Ah Hwee (Assoc Prof)) Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:02:31 +0800 Subject: Connectionists: Invitation for Submission to the Special Issue of ACM TIST Journal on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Agents In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <629B8F547581594A9B9760E372AA1577162BE56D8D@EXCHANGE32.staff.main.ntu.edu.sg> Dear Colleagues A gentle reminder that the end of year and the submission deadline for the special issue is approaching soon. We look forward to receiving your paper. Have a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR. Cheers Ah-Hwee Tan and Wlodzislaw Duch [cid:image001.gif at 01CB9B7E.6769C280] Ah-Hwee TAN (Dr) | Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Systems | School of Computer Engineering | Nanyang Technological University Block N4, Level 2, Section A, Room 26, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Tel: (65) 6790-4326 GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6792-6559 | Email: asahtan at ntu.edu.sg | Web: www.ntu.edu.sg/home/asahtan From: Tan Ah Hwee (Assoc Prof) Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 4:14 PM To: Connectionists at cs.cmu.edu Subject: Invitation for Submission to the Special Issue of ACM TIST Journal on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Agents Dear Colleagues We are currently preparing a special issue on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Agents for the ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) and we would like to invite you to contribute a paper based on your recent research work. The deadline for the paper submission is 31 December 2010, which we hope allows sufficient time for writing. Further information on submission and schedule can be found in the ACM TIST home page (http://tist.acm.org/) and the call for the papers attached here. We look forward to receiving your contribution soon. Thank you very much. Best regards Ah-Hwee Tan and Wlodzislaw Duch [cid:image001.gif at 01CB9B7E.6769C280] Ah-Hwee TAN (Dr) | Associate Professor and Head, Division of Information Systems | School of Computer Engineering | Nanyang Technological University Block N4, Level 2, Section A, Room 26, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Tel: (65) 6790-4326 GMT+8h | Fax: (65) 6792-6559 | Email: asahtan at ntu.edu.sg | Web: www.ntu.edu.sg/home/asahtan ________________________________ CONFIDENTIALITY: This email is intended solely for the person(s) named and may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it, notify us and do not copy, use, or disclose its content. Thank you. 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Appointments at the assistant professor, associate professor and full professor level, will be considered in Systems Biology and Neuroengineering. For a full list of areas of interest see http://www.ee.columbia.edu/pages/jobs/departmental_positions/index.html . Candidates working at the interface between physical sciences, life sciences, computational sciences, and electrical engineering as applied to the above priority areas are also encouraged to apply. All candidates must have excellent scholarship and excellent promise for future development. Applicants for this position at the Assistant Professor and Associate Professors without tenure must have the potential to do pioneering research and to teach effectively using modern tools of instruction. Applicants for this position at the tenured level (Associate or Full Professor) must have a demonstrated record of outstanding research accomplishments and excellent teaching credentials. Candidates must have a Ph.D. degree by the starting date of the appointment and are expected to establish a strong research program and excel in teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. Candidates should apply online at: https://academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=54007, (No applications can be sent directly to the department) and should submit electronically the following: curriculum-vitae including a publication list, a description of research accomplishments, a statement of research/teaching interests and plans, contact information for three people who can provide letters of recommendation, and up to three pre/reprints. To be considered materials should be in by January 15, 2011. Aurel A. Lazar http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The range of topics to be addressed in the workshop really cuts across cognitive science disciplines. We encourage submissions from philosophers, psychologists, and computational neuroscientists alike, among other related fields. *Plenary speakers* Ken Aizawa (Philosophy, Centenary College, LA, US) Tony Chemero (Psychology, Franklin & Marshall College, PA, US) Brian McLaughlin (Philosophy, Rutgers, NJ, US) Steve Phillips (Mathematical Neuroinformatics Group, AIST, Japan) * * *Publication* A selection of the material presented will be published as a special issue of the journal *Synthese *. * * For more information: http://www.um.es/dp-filosofia/systematicityworkshop/ -- Aarre Laakso, Ph.D., Lecturer University of Michigan - Dearborn Department of Behavioral Sciences 4020 CASL Building 4901 Evergreen Road Dearborn, Michigan 48128 aarre at umd.umich.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Novel measures of cortical functional connectivity using EEG steady-state responses http://www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/node/17308 Real Time Electrophysiological Model of Ongoing Pain for Neurofeedback Applications http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACA108/phd-studentship Speeding up the brain - how does repetitive stimulation speed up brain processes http://www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/node/17307 regards W. From terry at salk.edu Wed Dec 15 19:05:43 2010 From: terry at salk.edu (Terry Sejnowski) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:05:43 -0800 Subject: Connectionists: NEURAL COMPUTATION - January, 2011 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Neural Computation - Contents - Volume 23, Number 1 - January 1, 2011 ARTICLES Model-Based Decoding, Information Estimation, and Change-Point Detection Techniques for Multi-Neuron Spike Trains Jonathan W. Pillow, Yashar Ahmadian, and Liam Paninski Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Decoding Neural Spike Trains Yashar Ahmadian, Jonathan W. Pillow, and Liam Paninski LETTERS Modeling Multivariate Time Series on Manifolds with Skew Radial Basis Functions Arta A. Jamshidi and Michael J. Kirby The Mean Time to Express Synaptic Plasticity in Integrate-and-Express, Stochastic Models of Synaptic Plasticity Induction A Graphical Model Framework for Decoding in the Visual ERP-Based BCI Speller S.M.M Martens, J.M. Mooij, N. J. Hill, J. Farquhar, and B. Schoelkopf A Framework for Simulating and Estimating the State and Functional Topology of Complex Dynamic Geometric Networks Marius Buibas and Gabriel Silva A Multiscale Correlation of Wavelet Coefficients Approach to Spike Detection Chenhui Yang, Byron Olson, and Jennie Si Broken Symmetries in a Location-Invariant Word Recognition Network Thomas Hannagan, Frederic Dandurand, and Jonathan Grainger Least-Squares Independent Component Analysis Taiji Suzuki and Masashi Sugiyama ----- ON-LINE - http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/neco SUBSCRIPTIONS - 2011 - VOLUME 23 - 12 ISSUES USA Others Electronic only Student/Retired $67 $130 $62 Individual $118 $181 $110 Institution $986 $1,049 $882 Canada: Add 5% GST MIT Press Journals, 238 Main Street, Suite 500, Cambridge, MA 02142-9902. Tel: (617) 253-2889 FAX: (617) 577-1545 journals-orders at mit.edu http://mitpressjournals.org/neuralcomp ----- From Tom.Verguts at UGent.be Sat Dec 18 07:50:49 2010 From: Tom.Verguts at UGent.be (Tom Verguts) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 13:50:49 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Special Topic Message-ID: * Apologies for multiple postings * Dear all, Gilles Pourtois, Tom Verguts and Wim Notebaert are hosting a special issue in Frontiers in Cognition on cognitive and affective control. We invite papers that investigate the influence from emotion on cognitive control, or vice versa, the influence of cognitive control on emotion. Contributions can be of different types: We welcome empirical contributions (behavioral or neuroscientific) but also computational modeling, theory, or review papers. Researchers are invited to submit before or on February 1, 2011 an abstract/outline of work related to the Special Topic of around 1 page. They should send an email to: cognitiveaffectivecontrol at gmail.com for consideration for inclusion as an elaborated full article in the Special Topic. Please include a provisional title, a full author list, and format the subject of your email as follows: "Cognitive and affective control -Your Name". Authors will be notified whether their contribution has been accepted by March 1, 2011. The deadline for submission of invited full articles is July 1, 2011. For more information, please visit http://www.frontiersin.org/Cognition/specialtopics/cognitive_and_affective_contro/166 Kind regards, Gilles, Tom & Wim. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In 2011, ICANN returns to its roots after 20 years. The very first ICANN in 1991 was organized at Helsinki University of Technology in Espoo, Finland. We invite all neural network researchers worldwide to join us in celebrating this 20th anniversary of ICANN and to see the latest advancements in our fast progressing field. ICANN 2011 will have two tracks: Brain-inspired computing and Machine learning research, with PC chairs from both worlds and a renewed reviewing system. Keynote speakers and competitions will highlight cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. VENUE ICANN 2011 will be held in the Dipoli Congress Center located on the beautiful campus of Aalto University (former Helsinki University of Technology), in Espoo (8km west from the city centre of Helsinki). The time of the year is particularly suitable for visiting Finland. CONFERENCE TOPICS ICANN 2011 will feature two main tracks: Brain inspired computing and Machine learning research, with strong cross-disciplinary interactions and applications. A non-exhaustive list of topics: - Brain inspired computing: Connectionist cognitive science, Neural and hybrid architectures and learning algorithms, Neural control and planning, Reinforcement learning, Computational neuroscience, Neural dynamics and complex systems, Self-organization, Neuro- cognitive architectures, Recurrent networks - Machine learning research: Graphical models, Bayesian networks, Kernel methods, Generative models, Information theoretic learning, Nonlinear projection, Relational learning, Online learning, Dynamical models, Reinforcement learning - Applications and cross-disciplinary connections: Data analysis, Pattern recognition, Signal and time series processing, Blind source separation, Hardware implementations and embedded systems, Intelligent multimedia, Knowledge management, Multimodal interfaces, Vision and image processing, Biomedical image analysis, Speech and language processing, Robotics applications, Intelligent control, Neuroinformatics, Bioinformatics, Biomedical applications, Brain-computer interfaces, Critical infrastructure systems, Complex networks CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Tom Griffiths, University of California Berkeley (http://cocosci.berkeley.edu/tom/) Riitta Hari, Aalto University (http://ltl.tkk.fi/wiki/Riitta_Hari) Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto (http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/) Aapo Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/) Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html) ORGANIZATION General chair: Erkki Oja Program co-chairs: Wlodzislaw Duch, Mark Girolami, Timo Honkela, Samuel Kaski Workshop chair: Alexander Ilin Local chair: Amaury Lendasse Publicity chair: Jaakko Peltonen Organizing committee members: Francesco Corona, Krista Lagus, Yoan Miche, Ilari Nieminen, Mari-Sanna Paukkeri, Tapani Raiko, Ricardo Vigario CONFIRMED AREA CHAIRS Peter Auer, Austria Christian Bauckhage, Germany Wray Buntine, Australia Vince Calhoun, USA Antonius Coolen, UK Barbara Hammer, Germany Giulio Jacucci, Finland Kristian Kersting, Germany Mikko Kurimo, Finland Neil Lawrence, UK Te-Won Lee, USA Hiroshi Mamitsuka, Japan Fernando Morgado Dias, Portugal Klaus-Robert Muller, Germany Klaus Obermayer, Germany Cheng Soon Ong, Switzerland Jan Peters, Germany Marios Polycarpou, Cyprus Jose Principe, USA Volker Roth, Switzerland Craig Saunders, UK Alan Stocker, USA Masashi Sugiyama, Japan Ron Sun, USA Peter Tino, UK Alfred Ultsch, Germany Koen Van Leemput, USA Michel Verleysen, Belgium Jean-Philippe Vert, France Ole Winther, Denmark Chang D. Yoo, South Korea WORKSHOPS Details of workshops and tutorials at ICANN 2011 will be available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 . WSOM 2011, the 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps (13-15 June 2011) will be co-located with ICANN 2011. COMPETITIONS Mind reading competition on MEG data: classify from MEG signals which type of video stimulus the subject is viewing such as football match, movie, natural scenery, etc. META-NET Multimodal Machine Translation Challenge: choose the best translation from translations given by multiple machine translation systems, using additional context information like domain, surrounding text, etc. See http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 for more details! PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submitted papers should be up to 8 pages in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Papers will be submitted through Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Further details will be available soon at http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 . Accepted papers will be published in a collected volume by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, www.springer.com/lncs and will also be available online through the SpringerLink digital library. SPONSORS ICANN 2011 is supported by European Neural Network Society (ENNS), Pattern Recognition Society of Finland and Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society. ====== See http://www.cis.hut.fi/icann2011 for more details! ====== From yokoy at brain.riken.jp Mon Dec 20 02:55:55 2010 From: yokoy at brain.riken.jp (Yoko YAMAGUCHI) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:55:55 +0900 Subject: Connectionists: Request of CFP announcement Message-ID: Dear connectionist manager, I would like to ask you to annouce the following CFP article in your ML. Thank you for your cooperation in advance. Yoko Yamaguchi RIKEN BSI -------------------------------------------------- Subject 3rd CFP ICCN, June 9-13, 2011, Hokkaido Japan Dear everyone, The 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics is held on June 9-13, 2011 at Hilton Niseko Village, Hokkaido, Japan. Current and coming information is available at URL http://iccn2011.com Paper submission and registration system are to be open soon. Your contribution is strongly welcomed and encouraged. Important dates Dec. 24, 2010 ? Jan. 24, 2011 One Page Abstract Submission Mar. 10, 2011 Decision Notification Apr. 20, 2011 Final Abstract and Manuscript Submission Apr. 25, 2011 On-line Registration Deadline May 15, 2011 Proposals for Organizing the 4th ICCN 2013 May 20, 2011 Manuscript Reviewing Notification Jun. 9-13, 2011 Conference Jun. 30, 2011 Final Manuscript Submission Deadline Mar. 30, 2012 Post-conference Proceedings Publication Contact address of this conference is as follows. General contact on ICCN2011: Iccn2011 at ec-pro.co.jp Any contact: iccn2011chair at brain.riken.jp We look forward to seeing you in Hokkaido. Sincerely yours, Yoko YAMAGUCHI General Chair of ICCN 2011 Lab. for Dynamics of Emergent Intelligence RIKEN Brain Science Institute From schwarzwaelder at bcos.uni-freiburg.de Mon Dec 20 10:36:32 2010 From: schwarzwaelder at bcos.uni-freiburg.de (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Kerstin_Schwarzw=E4lder?=) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:36:32 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience 2011 Message-ID: <4D0F7800.6030508@bcos.uni-freiburg.de> Dear colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention that for the sixth time, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has announced an open call for applications for a "Bernstein Award". The "Bernstein Award for Computational Neuroscience" is equipped with up to 1.25 Mio ? for a period of five years and allows young scientists of all nationalities to establish an independent research group at a German university or research institution. The BMBF announcement can be found under the following links: German version English version Posters to announce the Bernstein Award locally can be downloaded from here: German version English version *Application deadline is May 20th, 2011.* Kind regards, Kerstin Schwarzwaelder -- Dr. Kerstin Schwarzw?lder Bernstein Coordination Site of the National Network for Computational Neuroscience Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg Hansastr. 9A 79104 Freiburg Germany phone: +49 761 203 9594 fax: +49 761 203 9585 schwarzwaelder at bcos.uni-freiburg.de www.nncn.de -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101220/8c6b7ae4/attachment-0001.html From sok at cs.york.ac.uk Mon Dec 20 11:27:38 2010 From: sok at cs.york.ac.uk (Simon O'Keefe) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:27:38 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Active Vision Symposium at AISB 2011 - 2nd Call For Papers Message-ID: <4D0F83FA.9050906@cs.york.ac.uk> ------ SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ------ Architectures for Active Vision http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ActiveVision A Symposium of the AISB Convention 4 - 5 April 2011 University of York, United Kingdom Supported by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The symposium theme is 'Architectures for Active Vision'. Contributions from researchers interested in the control of vision and visual attention are sought. Vision is arguably the most researched function of the brain. Nonetheless, high level visual information processing is still poorly understood. A major problem in perception is the volume of information acquired by the body's sensors. Passive approaches to selection of information may deal with the overload by focussing processing on particularly salient inputs. Active vision takes the further step of directing the acquisition of information in a goal-directed manner, in which top-down information plays an important role, possibly overriding saliency in selection of actions. This shift in perspective connects vision with important issues for cognitive systems as a whole, such as action selection, planning and goal-driven behaviour The aim of the symposium to bring together researchers and research groups with interests including (but not limited to) * Brain architectures for active vision * The neural basis for action selection, particularly in vision * High level modelling in software and hardware of structure or mechanisms from the visual system. Contributions may span experiment and theory from neurobiology, through cognition to bio-inspired software/hardware applications. The symposium will be two days duration (4 - 5 April). The first day will consist of presentations of refereed work from participants, to share the ideas which contribute to the second day discussions. The second day will be built around a facilitated panel discussion aimed at the development of ideas (and proposals) for further collaborative work. Invited speakers will set the tone of the symposium, and a poster session will allow wider participation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The AISB Convention as a whole will include 11 individual symposia. All meals, facilities and social events are shared by the Convention in common. All symposium participants must register for the convention (not for individual symposia). More details about the convention can be found at their website: http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to contribute to the Symposium Papers of about 6 - 8 pages that respond to the topics listed above are invited. Papers should include an abstract of not more than 200 words and should be submitted as an anonymous PDF file (that it, with name and affiliation details omitted) by email (including your name and contact details) to the Symposium organiser, Simon O'Keefe, at simon.okeefe at york.ac.uk, by 10th January 2011. Submissions will be acknowledged within 7 days. Accepted papers will be included in the Symposium and Convention proceedings, published by AISB. Expressions of interest in attending the symposium (but without giving a paper) are also invited, in the form of an abstract of no more than 200 words indicating your background and interest in the subject of the symposium. Send these as plain text emails to the organiser. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee for this symposium * Jim Austin (University of York) * Netta Cohen (University of Leeds) * Kevin Gurney (University of Sheffield) * Marc de Kamps (University of Leeds) * Simon O'Keefe (University of York) * Tom Stafford (University of Sheffield) * Thomas Wennekers (University of Plymouth) * Stefan Wermter (University of Hamburg) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates 10th January 2011 - Submissions due 7st February 2011 - Decisions on acceptance 28th February 2011 - Camera ready copies due (tbc - check website) - Early registration deadline 4-7 April 2011 - AISB 2011 convention ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Symposium URL: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/ActiveVision -- ___________________________________________________________________ Dr Simon O'Keefe EXT +44(0)1904 325375 INT 5375 Dept of Computer Science, University of York, York, YO10 5GH (U.K.) EMAIL DISCLAIMER http://www.york.ac.uk/docs/disclaimer/email.htm From jaakko.peltonen at tkk.fi Fri Dec 17 12:41:36 2010 From: jaakko.peltonen at tkk.fi (jaakko.peltonen@tkk.fi) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:41:36 +0200 (EET) Subject: Connectionists: Second call for papers: WSOM 2011, 8th Workshop on Self-Organizing Maps Message-ID: =================================================================== Second Call for Papers for WSOM 2011, 8th WORKSHOP ON SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS 13 - 15 June 2011, Espoo, Finland Aalto University School of Science and Technology and Dipoli Conference Center Website: http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 IMPORTANT DATES: Submission of full papers: January 14, 2011 Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2011 Camera-ready paper and author registration: April 1, 2011 Advance registration before: April 15, 2011 =================================================================== GENERAL INFORMATION WSOM 2011 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of self-organizing systems, with a particular emphasis on the self-organizing maps. It will highlight key advances in these and closely related fields. WSOM 2011 is the eighth conference in a series of bi-annual international conferences started with WSOM'97 in Helsinki. The event will be co-located with the ICANN 2011 conference that will be organized from 14th to 17th of June, 2011. Conference programmes, registrations and fees will be coordinated. VENUE WSOM 2011 will take place at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology) and Dipoli Conference Center. They are located in Espoo, in the close vicinity of the Helsinki capital area. The area is one of the ICT research and development hot spots in Europe as well as known for its beautiful and easily accessible nature. The time of the year is particularly suitable for visiting Finland. CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS Barbara Hammer, Bielefeld University: Topographic mapping for dissimilarity data Teuvo Kohonen, Academy of Finland: Linguistic roles of Chinese words displayed in self-organizing maps TOPICS in THEORY, METHODS and APPLICATIONS We expect contributions related to the theoretical and methodological aspects of the self-organizing map including: * Data analysis and visualization with a special topic of modeling dynamic phenomena * Various mathematical approaches including information theory and mathematical statistics * Software and hardware implementations * Architectural solutions including hierarchical and growing networks, ensemble models and special metrics * Neuro-cognitive studies that compare modeling and empirical results at different levels We also call for scientific and practice-oriented papers that describe the use of self-organizing maps with variants in different application areas including but not limited to: * Data mining * Pattern recognition * Signal processing * Knowledge management * Time series processing * Industrial applications * Bioinformatics * Biomedical applications * Telecommunications * Financial analysis * Cognitive modeling * Robotics and intelligent systems * Image processing and vision * Speech processing * Language modeling * Text and document analysis ORGANIZERS * Honorary chair Teuvo KOHONEN Academy of Finland * General chair Timo HONKELA Aalto University School of Science and Technology * Program chair Jorma LAAKSONEN Aalto University School of Science and Technology * Local chair Olli SIMULA Aalto University School of Science and Technology * Publicity chair Jaakko PELTONEN Aalto University School of Science and Technology STEERING COMMITTEE * Teuvo KOHONEN * Marie COTTRELL * Pablo ESTEVEZ * Timo HONKELA * Erkki OJA * Jose PRINCIPE * Helge RITTER * Takeshi YAMAKAWA * Hujun YIN PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Guilherme BARRETO * Yoonsuck CHOE * Jean-Claude FORT * Tetsuo FURUKAWA * Colin FYFE * Barbara HAMMER * Samuel KASKI * Krista LAGUS * Amaury LENDASSE * Ping LI * Thomas MARTINETZ * Risto MIIKKULAINEN * Klaus OBERMAYER * Jaakko PELTONEN * Marina RESTA * Udo SEIFFERT * Olli SIMULA * Kadim TASDEMIR * Heizo TOKUTAKA * Carme TORRAS * Alfred ULTSCH * Marc VAN HULLE * Michel VERLEYSEN * Thomas VILLMANN * Lei XU PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submitted papers should be up to 8-10 pages in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Papers will be submitted through Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Further details are available at http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 . Accepted papers will be published in a collected volume by Springer in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, www.springer.com/lncs . Registered authors will receive a hard copy proceedings volume, and the proceedings will also be available online in full-text electronic format via the SpringerLink digital library. ====== See http://www.cis.hut.fi/wsom2011 for more details! ======= From e.i.barakova at tue.nl Tue Dec 21 04:34:02 2010 From: e.i.barakova at tue.nl (Barakova, E.I.) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:34:02 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Special issue on Methods for measuring behavior and integration - a neuroscience perspective- Journal of Integrative Neuroscience In-Reply-To: <3E3367A41E018B4E8242B6277BBA2F76F8F2C4C3E3@EXCHANGE10.campus.tue.nl> References: <3E3367A41E018B4E8242B6277BBA2F76F8F2C4C3E3@EXCHANGE10.campus.tue.nl> Message-ID: <3E3367A41E018B4E8242B6277BBA2F76F8F2C4C3E4@EXCHANGE10.campus.tue.nl> Cfp: Special issue in Journal of Integrative Neuroscience on Methods for measuring behavior and integration - a neuroscience perspective. This Special Issue is inspired by the Measuring behavior conference http://www.measuringbehavior.org which provides a broad and interdisciplinary forum for novel methods to define, measure, and analyze human and animal behavior. We solicit papers that analyze individual behavior along with the patterns, behavior of groups and processes explaining for specific behaviors. We especially focus on integrative approaches of measuring different behavioral parameters with realistic interactive setting. The aim of this issue is to summarize the emerging trends and common problems across different branches of social and behavioral neuroscience that involve measurements of human and animal behavior with emphasis on the used measurement method, and preferably integrative approach. The papers have to address problems in neuroscience. Topics include but are not limited to: Measuring the behavior of laboratory animals Combinative monitoring New technologies for studying behavior Video tracking and automatic behavior recognition The home cage as starting point for innovative concepts in behavioral phenotyping Measuring behavior using motion capture Multimodal analysis of behavior and physiology New hardware and software for measuring behavior Studying behavior in realistic social environments Monitoring emotional behavior in rodents and primates, The papers will be reviewed according to the standards of Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, World Scientific publishing, http://www.worldscinet.com/jin/. The special issue is open to everybody. Submission deadline: 15 February 2011 Notification to authors: 30 April 2011 Camera ready papers: 30 June 2011 Guest editors: Emilia I. Barakova,Eindhoven University of Technology and RIKEN BSI Naotaka Fujii, RIKEN, Brain Science Institute Andrew Spink, Noldus Information Technology Lucas Noldus, Noldus Information Technology The papers should be sent to Emilia I. Barakova or Naotaka Fujii e.i.barakova at tue.nl, na at brain.riken.jp From y.demiris at imperial.ac.uk Wed Dec 22 04:14:45 2010 From: y.demiris at imperial.ac.uk (Demiris, Yiannis) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:14:45 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Postdoctoral positions - Bioinspired Social Learning Algorithms for Human Robot Interaction Message-ID: <4D55C0D3-643B-4ECF-8ED2-B1A0821257FD@imperial.ac.uk> Dear colleagues, Two postdoctoral positions are immediately available at Imperial's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, to work on bionspired social learning algorithms for human-robot interaction. You will be working in a new EU FP7 STREP project, EFAA, to develop bioinspired algorithms for enabling humanoid robots to learn transferable sensorimotor and cognitive skills through multimodal interaction with human users in the context of tabletop games. Experience with modelling biological learning processes (particularly in the context of social cognitive neuroscience), for example using neural networks or bayesian models, and/or programming and control of complex humanoid robots (e.g. the icub) would be beneficial. The positions offer an exciting research topic and an excellent working environment in one of the world's top research universities; the positions are for the project's duration of 3 years. More information (and links to the application website) at: http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis/webcontent/EFAAPostdoctoralPositions/Welcome.html Deadline for receipt of applications is the 16th of January 2011, but candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible. Best wishes, Yiannis --- Dr Yiannis Demiris, Senior Lecturer, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BT, London, UK Tel: +44(0)2075946300, Fax: +44(0)2075946274 http://www.iis.ee.imperial.ac.uk/yiannis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101222/72c9f871/attachment.html From ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Mon Dec 20 16:55:46 2010 From: ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk (Dr Amir Hussain) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:55:46 -0000 Subject: Connectionists: Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at Stirling University in Scotland (UK) - Application deadline extended till 5 Jan 2011 Message-ID: <115301cba090$b0e2f5f0$0301a8c0@drlaptop> The Cognitive Signal Image Processing Research (COSIPRA) Laboratory of Dr. Amir Hussain at the University of Stirling in Scotland (UK), invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded project "Dual Process Control Models in the Brain and Machines with Application to Autonomous Vehicle Control". The general aim of this three year multi-disciplinary project is to exploit a range of similarities between systems in control engineering and the animal brain, focusing specifically on the concepts of automatised and controlled (or executive) processing and how they might map onto modular Autonomous Vehicle Control (AVC) solutions. Given the inherent similarities between the two problem domains of AVC and action selection in animals, this ambitious project aims to leverage new results from psychology and neurobiology discovered in the laboratory of the project Co-Investigator (Dr Kevin Gurney at Sheffield University) and apply them to the AVC controllers under development in Dr Hussain's Lab at Stirling. The outcome should be a new generation real-time cognitive AVC controller, more directly inspired by the biological ideas. The appointed postdoctoral researcher will work closely with the project's industrial partners (Industrial Systems Control and SciSys Ltd.) to evaluate the benefits of these novel controllers within the challenging context of regular road driving and planetary rover vehicles. The post-doctoral fellow will be based full-time in Dr. Hussain's COSIPRA Lab, which is part of the Computational Intelligence Research Group of the Department of Computing Science & Maths within the University's new School of Natural Sciences. COSIPRA is a leading multidisciplinary research group in the field of cognitive modeling, simulation and control of complex systems. Details about the Department can be found at: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk and about the COSIPRA Lab: http://cosipra.cs.stir.ac.uk Applicants will be working in the field of intelligent adaptive control engineering (or a closely related discipline), and should ideally have some experience of biologically-inspired modelling. The post is full time for 3 years starting from 1st February 2011 or as soon as possible thereafter. Starting salary will be in the post-doctoral RA scale (Grade 7: UK pounds sterling 29,853-35,646 p.a.) Informal enquiries should be addressed to the project's Principal Inestigator: Dr Amir Hussain ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk Please include in your subject heading: EPSRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow: Cognitive Control of Autonomous Systems, Ref: 16906. To formally apply for this post, a completed application form (which can be obtained by emailing: hr-services at stir.ac.uk or downloaded from: http://www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk/vacancies/information/info16906.php#R16906 or http://www.hr-services.stir.ac.uk/documents/CSM_ResFell_16906.2.doc#R16906) quoting reference number 16906; a CV listing all publications; a pdf of up to three representative publications and a research statement describing your previous research experience, outlining the relevance to this project, needs to be submitted (by email) to: hr-services at stir.ac.uk (with an optional copy to amir at cs.stir.ac.uk) The closing date for applications has been extended to 12 noon on Wednesday, 5th January 2011. Applications received after this date cannot be guaranteed to be considered. *Please note that applications will be rejected if they do not include a completed application form.* Interviews are expected to be held towards the end of January 2011. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality -- The Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2009/2010 The University of Stirling is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC 011159. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101220/83c06e3d/attachment.html From jose at psychology.rutgers.edu Mon Dec 27 08:59:15 2010 From: jose at psychology.rutgers.edu (Stephen =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Hanson) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:59:15 -0500 Subject: Connectionists: POSTDOC Position-- Rutgers University- Computational Neuroimaging Message-ID: <1293458355.12746.17.camel@max> POSTDOC POSITION: COMPUTATIONAL NEUROIMAGING --Rutgers University. We seek a postdoctoral applicant for a position at Rutgers University - Newark in New Jersey in the RUBMA Lab (Rutgers Brain/Mind Analysis; www.rumba.rutgers.edu) Applicants should have a background in one, and preferably several, of the following area: statistical learning methods, neural signal processing, neuroimaging (EEG and/or fMRI), , cognitive neuroscience. A Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience or Computational Neuroscience, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering is preferred. Our lab was one of the first development sites for new methods and techniques related to "brain reading" including premier tools such as pyMVPA. Our Cognitive/Perceptual research is focused on learning and memory, specifically in terms of language supporting functions and modularity: Categorization, representation, sequential learning, event cognition etc. Our Computational research areas includes multivariate classifiers for fMRI, graph modeling of large scale brain interactivity (Ramsey et al 2010; intrinsic/extrinsic networks) as well as spatial brain clustering (Dense Mode Clustering; Hanson et al 2008, MRI) and inter-brain synchrony metrics (Eigen-Value-Synchrony methods- Hanson et al, 2009, Comp. Neuroscience). We are located in beautiful downtown Newark, 13 miles outside of New York City. See http://www rumba.rutgers.edu for more information) Position starts in Spring 2011. This is a two year postdoctoral position with possible third year renewal. Note: Applicants must be US Citizens or green card holders. Interested applicants should send a current CV, names of potential recommenders To jose at psychology.rutgers.edu WITH SUBJECT HEADING: Postdoc Position Rutgers University is an equal opportunity employer. From x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com Mon Dec 27 16:09:28 2010 From: x.troncoso at neuralcorrelate.com (Xoana G Troncoso) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:09:28 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: call for illusion submissions: the world's 7th annual Best illusion of the Year Contest Message-ID: ****CALL FOR ILLUSION SUBMISSIONS: THE WORLD?S 7TH ANNUAL BEST ILLUSION OF THE YEAR CONTEST**** http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com *** We are happy to announce the world's 7th annual Best Illusion of the Year Contest!!*** Submissions are now welcome! The 2011 contest will be held in Naples, Florida (Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts, http://www.thephil.org/) on Monday, May 9th, 2011, as an official satellite of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) conference. The Naples Philharmonic Center is an 8-minute walk from the main VSS headquarters hotel in Naples, and is thus central to the VSS conference. Past contests have been highly successful in drawing public attention to vision research, with over ***FIVE MILLION*** website hits from viewers all over the world, as well as hundreds of international media stories. The First, Second and Third Prize winners at the 20019 contest were Koukichi Sugihara (Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences, Japan), Bart Anderson (University of Sydney, Australia), and Jan Kremlacek (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic). To see the illusions, photo galleries and other highlights from the 2010 and previous contests, go to http://illusionoftheyear.com Eligible submissions are novel perceptual or cognitive illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2010) of all sensory modalities (visual, auditory, etc.) in standard image, movie or html formats. Exciting new variants of classic or known illusions are admissible. An international panel of impartial judges will rate the submissions and narrow them to the TOP TEN. Then, at the Contest Gala in Naples, the TOP TEN illusionists will present their contributions and the attendees of the event (that means you!) will vote to pick the TOP THREE WINNERS! Illusions submitted to previous editions of the contest can be re-submitted to the 2011 contest, so long as they meet the above requirements and were not among the TOP THREE winners in previous years. Submissions will be held in strict confidence by the panel of judges and the authors/creators will retain full copyright. The TOP TEN illusion will be posted on the illusion contest's website *after* the Contest Gala. Illusions not chosen among the TOP TEN will not be disclosed. As with submitting your work to any scientific conference, participating in to the Best Illusion of the Year Contest does not preclude you from also submitting your work for publication elsewhere. Submissions can be made to Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde (Illusion Contest Coordinator, Neural Correlate Society) via email (smart at neuralcorrelate.com) until February 14, 2010. Illusion submissions should come with a (no more than) one-page description of the illusion and its theoretical underpinnings (if known). Illusions will be rated according to: . Significance to our understanding of the visual system . Simplicity of the description . Sheer beauty . Counterintuitive quality . 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URL: https://mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu/mailman/private/connectionists/attachments/20101227/89885491/attachment.html From yann.renard at irisa.fr Tue Dec 28 14:52:30 2010 From: yann.renard at irisa.fr (Yann Renard) Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:52:30 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: New release of OpenViBE 0.9.0 Message-ID: <4D1A3FFE.20303@irisa.fr> New release of *OpenViBE* 0.9.0 "Christmas edition" is now available for download at : === Overview ========================================= OpenViBE is an opensource platform that enables to design, test and use Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI). Broadly speaking, OpenViBE can be used in many real-time Neuroscience applications. The OpenViBE platform stands out for its high modularity. It addresses the needs of different types of users (programmers and non-programmers) and proposes a user-friendly graphical language which allows non-programmers to design a BCI without writing a single line of code. OpenViBE is portable, independent of hardware or software targets, can run under Windows and Linux and is entirely based on free and open-source software. OpenViBE is compatible with MATLAB programming. OpenViBE comes with preconfigured scenarios and runs already existing applications such as : * BCI based on motor imagery * P300 speller * Neurofeedback * Real-time visualization of brain activity in 2D or 3D OpenViBE is available under the terms of the LGPL-v2+. The whole software is developed in C++. It consists of a set of software modules that can be integrated easily and efficiently to design BCI applications such as for Virtual Reality interaction. === Where to get more information ==================== If you want more details, check these links : *Website* *Quick introduction video* : *Software download* : *One-hour training session video* : *Screenshots and videos* : === What changed since 0.8.0 ? ======================= In this new release, you will find the following modifications (+ for adds, * for modifications, - for removes) : * Emmanuel Maby stabilized the Brain Products BrainVision Recorder driver (the driver is now stable) + We added an EGI Netamps driver + We added multi amp support for Brain Products BrainAmp series + We added a VRPN Button client box * The acquisition server now remembers the last device you used * The designer now remembers the last opened scenarios * The designer can be launched from command line hiding the GUI, loading/runing a specific scenario etc.. * Each box setting can now be configured with the configuration manager * We stabilized lua box with a more complete API (the box is now stable) A more detailed list of the changelog can be found on the dedicated topic of the forum. === What's coming in the next release(s) ============= Here is a snapshot of what we are currently doing and what you can expect from the next release(s) : + Sample scenarios and VR demos should unable the use of SSVEP ... === Closing words ==================================== We want to thank Emmanuel Maby for his contribution. We also want to thank again all the forum and bug tracker participants who help in making the software better every day. Feel free to join us and to contribute as Emmanuel and others are doing... ! Looking forward to hearing your feedback, we hope you'll enjoy working with OpenViBE as we do. The whole team wishes you a happy new year... Best regards, The OpenViBE consortium Contact : Project Leader : Anatole L?cuyer, INRIA (anatole.lecuyer at irisa.fr) Lead Software Engineer : Yann Renard, INRIA (yann.renard at irisa.fr) From Yaochu.Jin at surrey.ac.uk Thu Dec 23 15:44:05 2010 From: Yaochu.Jin at surrey.ac.uk (Yaochu.Jin@surrey.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:44:05 +0000 Subject: Connectionists: Call for Papers: CEC 2011 Special Session on "Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems" Message-ID: Call for Papers 2011 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation New Orleans - June 5-8, 2011 *************Special Session on Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems*********** Special Session Organizers - Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK - Andy Tyrrell, University of York, UK Motivation and Scope Computational modeling of biological development has received increasing interests in evolutionary computation, artificial life and computational systems biology. In the evolutionary computation community, evolutionary algorithms using an indirect coding or generative coding are believed to be more scalable in evolving highly complex systems, compared to those using a direct coding. A variety number of developmental and generative models have been proposed, ranging from a set of re-writing rules to gene regulatory network model including metabolic reactions. Evolution of developmental and generative models is of great interest not only to efficient optimization of large-scale systems, but also to the understanding of the evolution of the body plan and neural control in living systems. This special session aims to promote cross-disciplinary research in evolutionary computation, artificial life, computational neuroscience and computational systems biology. Topics of the special session include but are not limited to: + Scalable evolutionary algorithms using indirect or generative encoding + Evolution of computational models for morphological and neural development + Evolutionary and developmental approaches to engineering design, e.g., evolvable hardware, structural design etc. + Analysis of evolvability and robustness of developmental systems + Evolutionary synthesis of regulatory dynamics + Benchmarking evolutionary developmental systems Important Dates + Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2011 + Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2011 + Final paper submission: April 1, 2011 Submission Procedure All papers are to be submitted electronically at http://cec2011.org/submission.htm. Please select "Special Session on Evolution of Developmental and Generative Systems" as the topic of your paper. Please also notify the special session organizers yaochu.jin #at# surrey.ac.uk or amt #at#ohm.york.ac.uk of your notice. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Yaochu Jin Head of the Nature-Inspired Computing and Engineering (NICE) Group Department of Computing, University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, United Kingdom Room 35 BB02 Phone: +44(0)1483 686037 Fax: +44(0)1483 686051 Email: yaochu.jin at surrey.ac.uk http://www.surrey.ac.uk/computing/people/yaochu_jin/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From wsenn at cns.unibe.ch Mon Dec 27 07:54:30 2010 From: wsenn at cns.unibe.ch (Walter Senn) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:54:30 +0100 Subject: Connectionists: Biological Cybernetics: vol 103, number 6 --- Table of Content Message-ID: <4D188C86.6010204@cns.unibe.ch> Biological Cybernetics: vol 103, number 6 --- Table of Content Original papers: "Applying double-magnetic induction to measure head-unrestrained gaze shifts: calibration and validation in monkey" Peter Bremen, Robert F. Van der Willigen, Marc M. Van Wanrooij, David F. Schaling, Marijn B. Martens, Tom J. Van Grootel & A. John van Opstal http://www.springerlink.com/content/kh562032vuk04103/ "Non-directional motion detectors can be used to mimic optic flow dependent behaviors" Jonathan P. Dyhr & Charles M. Higgins http://www.springerlink.com/content/a32h15303u82p571/ "Bifurcations of lurching waves in a thalamic neuronal network" Thomas M. Wasylenko, Jaime E. Cisternas, Carlo R. Laing & Ioannis G. Kevrekidis http://www.springerlink.com/content/n442122307475726/ "Information theoretic interpretation of frequency domain connectivity measures" Daniel Y. Takahashi, Luiz A. Baccal? & Koichi Sameshima http://www.springerlink.com/content/6841tkm8xn0h8421/ "From motor to sensory processing in mirror neuron computational modelling" Giovanni Tessitore, Roberto Prevete, Ezio Catanzariti & Guglielmo Tamburrini http://www.springerlink.com/content/lt10v3m161546540/ ---- Biological Cybernetics, all issues: http://www.springerlink.com/content/100465/