Announcement: 1990 Connectionists Models Summer School

[Jeff Elman]

December 20, 1989

        ANNOUNCEMENT & SOLICITATION FOR APPLICATIONS

      CONNECTIONIST MODELS SUMMER SCHOOL / SUMMER 1990

                            UCSD
                    La Jolla, California

     The next Connectionist Models  Summer  School  will  be
held at the University of California, San Diego from June 19
to 29, 1990.  This will be the third session in  the  series
which was held at Carnegie Mellon in the summers of 1986 and
1988.  Previous summer schools have been extremely  success-
ful,  and we look forward to the 1990 session with anticipa-
tion of another exciting summer school.

     The summer school will offer courses in  a  variety  of
areas  of connectionist modelling, with emphasis on computa-
tional neuroscience, cognitive models, and  hardware  imple-
mentation.   A variety of leaders in the field will serve as
Visiting  Faculty  (the  list  of  invited  faculty  appears
below).   In  addition  to  daily  lectures, there will be a
series of shorter tutorials and public  colloquia.  Proceed-
ings  of  the  summer school will be published the following
fall by Morgan-Kaufmann (previous  proceedings  appeared  as
'Proceedings   of   the  1988  Connectionist  Models  Summer
School', Ed., David Touretzky, Morgan-Kaufmann).

     As in the past, participation will be limited to gradu-
ate students enrolled in PhD. programs (full- or part-time).
Admission will be on a competitive basis.   Tuition is  sub-
sidized  for  all students and scholarships are available to
cover housing costs ($250).

     Applications should include the following:

 (1)   A statement of purpose,  explaining  major  areas  of
       interest and prior background in connectionist model-
       ing (if any).

 (2)   A description of a problem area you are interested in
       modeling.

 (3)   A list  of  relevant  coursework,  with  instructors'
       names and grades.

 (4)   Names of the three individuals whom you will be  ask-
       ing for letters of recommendation (see below).

 (5)   If you are requesting  support  for  housing,  please
       include a statement explaining the basis for need.

     Please also arrange to have letters  of  recommendation
sent  directly  from three individuals who know your current
work.

     Applications should be sent to
          Marilee Bateman 
	  Institute for Neural  Computation, B-047  
	  University  of  California,  San  Diego  
	  La Jolla, CA 92093 
	  (619) 534-7880

All application material must be received by March 15, 1990.
Decisions  about  acceptance  and scholarship awards will be
announced April 1.  If you have further  questions,  contact
Marilee  Bateman  (address  above), or one of the members of
the Organizing Committee.

Jeff Elman      	Terry Sejnowski
UCSD            	UCSD/Salk Institute
elman at amos.ucsd.edu     terry at sdbio2.ucsd.edu

Geoff Hinton            Dave Touretzky
Toronto                 CMU
hinton at ai.toronto.edu   touretzky at cs.cmu.edu

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                      INVITED FACULTY:

Yaser Abu-Mostafa (CalTech)     Richard Lippmann (MIT Lincoln Labs)
Dana Ballard (Rochester)        James L. McClelland (Carnegie Mellon)
Andy Barto (UMass/Amherst)      Carver Mead (CalTech)
Gail Carpenter (BU)             David Rumelhart (Stanford)
Patricia Churchland (UCSD)      Terry Sejnowski (UCSD/Salk)
Jack Cowan (Chicago)            Al Selverston (UCSD)
Jeff Elman (UCSD)               Paul Smolensky (Colorado)
Jerry Feldman (ICSI/UCB)        David Tank (Bell Labs)
Geoffrey Hinton (Toronto)       David Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon)
Michael Jordan (MIT)            Halbert White (UCSD)
Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki)        Ron Williams (Northeastern)
George Lakoff (UCB)             David Zipser (UCSD)