call for papers for COLT '91

[David Haussler]

                    CALL FOR PAPERS

                       COLT '91
      Fourth Workshop on Computational Learning Theory
             Santa Cruz, CA.  August 5-7, 1991

The fourth workshop on Computational Learning Theory will be held at
the Santa Cruz Campus of the University of California.  Registration 
is open, within the limits of the space available (about 150 people).  

In previous years COLT has focused primarily on developments in the
analysis of learning algorithms within certain computational learning 
models. This year we would like to widen the scope of the workshop by 
encouraging papers in all areas that relate directly to the theory of 
machine learning, including artificial and biological neural networks, 
robotics, pattern recognition, information theory, decision theory, 
Bayesian/MDL estimation, and cryptography. We look forward to a lively, 
interdisciplinary meeting.

As part of our program, we are pleased to present two special invited talks. 

        "Gambling, Inference and Data Compression"
          Prof. Tom Cover of Stanford University

        "The Role of Learning in Autonomous Robots"
          Prof. Rodney Brooks of MIT

Authors should submit an extended abstract that consists of:

      (1) A cover page with title, authors' names,
          (postal and e-mail) addresses, and a 200 word summary.  
      (2) A body not longer than 10 pages in twelve-point font.  

   Be sure to include a clear definition of the theoretical model used, an 
overview of the results, and some discussion of their significance, including
comparison to other work. Proofs or proof sketches should be included in the 
technical section.  Experimental results are welcome, but are expected to be
supported by theoretical analysis. Authors should send 11 copies of their
abstract to L.G. Valiant, COLT '91, Aiken Computing Laboratory, Harvard 
University, Cambridge, MA 02138. The deadline for receiving submissions 
is February 15, 1991.  This deadline is FIRM. Authors will be notified by 
April 8; final camera-ready papers will be due May 22.  The proceedings will 
be published by Morgan-Kaufmann.  Each individual author will keep the copyright
to his/her abstract, allowing subsequent journal submission of the full paper.

Chair: Manfred Warmuth (UC Santa Cruz).

Local arrangements chair: David Helmbold (UC Santa Cruz).

Program committee: Leslie Valiant (Harvard, chair), Dana Angluin (Yale), 
Andrew Barron (U. Illinois), Eric Baum (NEC, Princeton), Tom Dietterich 
(Oregon State U.), Mark Fulk (U. Rochester), Alon Itai (Technion, Israel), 
Michael Kearns (Int. Comp. Sci. Inst., Berkeley), Ron Rivest (MIT), 
Naftali Tishby (Bell Labs, Murray Hill), Manfred Warmuth (UCSC).

Hosting Institution: Department of Computer and Information Science, 
UC Santa Cruz.

Papers that have appeared in journals or other conferences, or that are 
being submitted to other conferences are not appropriate for submission to COLT.
Unlike previous years, this includes papers submitted to the IEEE Symposium 
on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS).  We no longer have a dual 
submission policy with FOCS.

Note: this call is being distributed to THEORY-NET, ML-LIST, CONNECTIONISTS,
Alife, NEWS.ANNOUNCE.CONFERENCES, COMP.THEORY, COMP.AI, COMP.AI.EDU, 
COMP.AI.NEURAL-NETS, and COMP.ROBOTICS. Please help us by forwarding it
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