Brisbane Neural Network Workshop

[Joachim Diederich]

           First Brisbane Neural Network Workshop
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            Queensland University of Technology
                Brisbane Q 4001, AUSTRALIA
               Gardens Point Campus, ITE 303
                        4 June 1993

The first Brisbane Neural Network Workshop  is  intended  to
bring together those interested in neurocomputing and neural
network applications.  The objective of the workshop  is  to
provide   a   discussion   platform   for   researchers  and
practitioners interested in theoretical and applied  aspects
of  neurocomputing.  The  workshop  should be of interest to
computer scientists and engineers, as well as to biologists,
cognitive   scientists   and   others   interested   in  the
application of neural networks.

This is the first of a series of workshops and seminars with
the  objective  of  enhancing  collaboration  between neural
network  researchers  and  practitioners  in  Queensland.  A
second workshop is planned for the end of July.

The First Brisbane Neural Network Workshop will be  held  at
Queensland  University  of  Technology, Gardens Point Campus
(ITE 303) on June 4, 1993 from 8:00am to 6:00pm.


 Programme

 8:00-8:15
 Welcome
 Joachim Diederich, QUT-FIT-CS Neurocomputing

 8:15-8:45
 Janet Wiles, University of Queensland,
 Departments of Computer Science and Psychology
 Representations in hidden unit space

 8:45-9:15
 Paul Bakker, University of Queensland,
 Departments of Computer Science and Psychology
 Examining Learning Dynamics with the Hyperplane Animator

 9:15-9:45
 Simon Dennis, University of Queensland
 Department of Computer Science
 Introducing Learning into Models of Human Memory

 9:45-10:15
 Steven Phillips, University of Queensland
 Department of Computer Science
 Systematicity and Feedforward Networks: Exponential Generalizations
 from Polynomial Examples

 10:15-10:45 Coffee Break

 10:45-11:15
 Joachim Diederich, QUT-FIT-CS Neurocomputing
 Cows,  Bulls  &  Tarzan:  Preliminary  results  on   animal
 breeding advice using neural networks

 11:15-11:45
 Joaquin Sitte, QUT-FIT-CS Neurocomputing
 Learning control in simple dynamics systems

 11:45-12:15
 Shlomo Geva, QUT-FIT-CS Neurocomputing
 Constrained gradient descent

 12:15-12:45
 Ray Lister, University of Queensland
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 On Seeing the World in a Grain of Sand: Hidden Unit Self-Organization,
 and Super Criticality

 12:45-2:00 Lunch Break

 2:00-2:30
 David  Abramson,  Griffith University,
 School  of  Computing   and   Information Technology
 High Performance Computation for  Simulated  Annealing  and
 Genetic Algorithms

 2:30-3:00
 John D. Pettigrew, University of Queensland, Vision,  Touch
 & Hearing Research Centre
 The owl & the pussycat: comparative study of the networks
 underlying binocular vision.

 3:00-3:30
 Tom Downs/Ah Chung Tsoi, University of Queensland,
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Directions of research in the UQ EE department

 3:30-4:00
 David Lovell, University of Queensland,
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 An improved version of the neocognitron

 4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

 4:30-5:00
 Ron Ganier, University of Queensland,
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Generalization in artificial neural networks

 5:00-5:30
 Paul Murtagh, University of Queensland,
 Department of Electrical Engineering
 Fault tolerance  and  VLSI  design  for  artificial  neural
 networks

 5:30-6:00
 Robert Young, Queensland Department of  Primary  Industries
 QDPI Neural Network Applications


Enquiries should be sent to

Professor Joachim Diederich
Neurocomputing Research Concentration Area
School of Computing Science
Queensland University of Technology
GPO Box 2434
Brisbane Q 4001
Phone: (07) 864-2143
Fax: (07) 864-1801
Email: joachim at fitmail.fit.qut.edu.au