Connectionists: Cognitive Science and Machine Learning Summer School

[Silvia Chiappa]

We invite applications for the Summer School on Cognitive Science and 
Machine Learning that will be held at Sardegna Ricerche (Italy) in May 
2010 and will be sponsored by the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence.

http://www.mlss.cc/sardinia10

The summer school will take place immediately before and near the 
AISTATS 2010 conference.

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Theme of the Summer School:

Cognitive science aims to reverse engineer human intelligence; machine 
learning provides one of our most powerful sources of insight into how 
machine intelligence is possible. Cognitive science therefore raises 
challenges for, and draws inspiration from, machine learning; and 
insights about the human mind may help inspire new directions for 
machine learning. This summer school brings together leading researchers 
from both fields, and those working at the interface between them. It is 
aimed at graduate students, post-docs and established researchers from 
both the cognitive science and machine learning communities, interested 
in exploring the interface between human and machine intelligence.

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Confirmed Speakers (partial list):

Nick Chater, University College London
Alex Clark, Royal Holloway University of London
Silvia Chiappa, Cambridge University
Peter Dayan, University College London
Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley
Konrad Körding, University of Chicago
Neil Lawrence, Manchester University
Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Satinder Singh, University of Michigan
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Chris Watkins, Royal Holloway University of London
Felix Wichmann, Technical University of Berlin

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Organisers:

Nick Chater, University College London
Silvia Chiappa, Cambridge University
Tom Griffiths, UC Berkeley
Neil Lawrence, Manchester University
Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT

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Important Dates:

Application Submission Deadline: March 1 2010
Notification: March 26 2010
Subscription Deadline: April 1 2010
School: from May 6 to May 12 2010