NIPS Call for Papers

[John Pearson W343 x2385]

                                   CALL FOR PAPERS
                        Neural Information Processing Systems
                               -Natural and Synthetic-
                   Monday, December 2 - Thursday, December 5, 1991
                                  Denver, Colorado

          This is the fifth meeting  of  an  inter-disciplinary  conference
          which   brings   together  neuroscientists,  engineers,  computer
          scientists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and  mathematicians
          interested  in  all aspects of neural processing and computation.
          There will be an afternoon  of  tutorial  presentations  (Dec  2)
          preceding  the  regular session and two days of focused workshops
          will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 6-7). Major categories  and
          examples   of   subcategories   for  paper  submissions  are  the
          following;

           Neuroscience:  Studies  and  Analyses   of   Neurobiological
            Systems,  Inhibition in cortical circuits, Signals and noise
            in neural computation, Theoretical Biology and Biophysics.
           Theory: Computational Learning  Theory,  Complexity  Theory,
            Dynamical  Systems,  Statistical  Mechanics, Probability and
            Statistics, Approximation Theory.
            Implementation  and  Simulation:  VLSI,  Optical,   Software
            Simulators,  Implementation  Languages,  Parallel  Processor
            Design and Benchmarks.
           Algorithms   and   Architectures:    Learning    Algorithms,
            Constructive   and   Pruning   Algorithms,  Localized  Basis
            Functions,    Tree    Structured    Networks,    Performance
            Comparisons, Recurrent Networks, Combinatorial Optimization,
            Genetic Algorithms.
           Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human Learning and
            Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning.
           Visual Processing:  Stereopsis,  Visual  Motion  Processing,
            Image Coding and Classification.
           Speech and Signal Processing:  Speech  Recognition,  Coding,
            and   Synthesis,   Text-to-Speech,   Adaptive  Equalization,
            Nonlinear Noise Removal.
           Control, Navigation, and Planning Navigation  and  Planning,
            Learning  Internal Models of the World, Trajectory Planning,
            Robotic Motor Control, Process Control.
           Applications Medical Diagnosis or Data  Analysis,  Financial
            and   Economic   Analysis,  Timeseries  Prediction,  Protein
            Structure Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems.

          Technical Program:  Plenary, contributed and poster sessions will
          be  held.   There will be no parallel sessions.  The full text of
          presented  papers  will  be  published.   Submission  Procedures:
          Original  research  contributions  are  solicited,  and  will  be
          carefully refereed.  Authors must submit six  copies  of  both  a
          1000-word  (or less) summary and six copies of a separate single-
          page  50-100  word  abstract  clearly   stating   their   results
          postmarked  by May 17, 1991. Accepted abstracts will be published
          in the conference program.  Summaries are for  program  committee
          use  only.   At the bottom of each abstract page and on the first
          summary page indicate preference for oral or poster  presentation
          and  specify  one  of  the  above  nine  broad categories and, if
          appropriate, sub-categories (For example:  Poster,  Applications-
          Expert   Systems;   Oral,  Implementation-Analog  VLSI).  Include
          addresses of all authors at the front  of  the  summary  and  the
          abstract  and  indicate  to which author correspondence should be
          addressed. Submissions will not be considered that lack  category
          information,  separate  abstract sheets, the required six copies,
          author addresses, or are late.

          Mail Submissions To:

          Stephen J. Hanson 
	  NIPS*91 Submissions 
          Siemens Research Center 
          755 College Road East 
          Princeton NJ, 08540

          Mail For Registration Material To:

          NIPS*91 Registration 
          Siemens Research Center 
          755 College Road East 
          Princeton, NJ, 08540

          All  submitting  authors  will  be  sent  registration   material
          automatically.   Program  committee decisions will be sent to the
          correspondence author only.

          NIPS*91 Organizing Committee: General Chair, John Moody, Yale U.;
          Program  Chair,  Stephen  J. Hanson, Siemens Research & Princeton
          U.; Publications Chair, Richard Lippmann, MIT Lincoln Laboratory;
          Publicity  Chair,  John  Pearson,  SRI,  David  Sarnoff  Research
          Center; Treasurer, Bob Allen, Bellcore; Local Arrangements,  Mike
          Mozer,  University of Colorado; Program Co-Chairs:, David Ackley,
          Bellcore; Pierre Baldi, JPL & Caltech; William Bialek,  NEC;  Lee
          Giles,  NEC; Mike Jordan, MIT; Steve Omohundro, ICSI; John Platt,
          Synaptics; Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute; David Stork, Ricoh  &
          Stanford;  Alex Waibel, CMU; Tutorial Chair: John Moody, Workshop
          CoChairs: Gerry Tesauro, IBM & Scott Kirkpatrick,  IBM;  Domestic
          Liasons: IEEE Liaison, Rodney Goodman, Caltech; APS Liaison, Eric
          Baum, NEC; Neurobiology Liaison, Tom Brown, Yale U.; Government &
          Corporate  Liaison,  Lee  Giles,  NEC;  Overseas  Liasons: Mitsuo
          Kawato, ATR; Marwan Jabri, University of Sydney;  Benny  Lautrup,
          Niels  Bohr  Institute;  John  Bridle, RSRE; Andreas Meier, Simon
          Bolivar U.
                 DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 17, 1991
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