NIPS*93

[Jack Cowan]

			FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
                        
		Neural Information Processing Systems
			-Natural and Synthetic-
	    Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 1993
			   Denver, Colorado

This is the seventh 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 (Nov 29) preceding the
regular session and two days of focused workshops will follow at a nearby
ski area (Dec 3-4).

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 & Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simulators,
   Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and Benchmarks.

  Algorithms & 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, Recognition, Image Coding
   and Classification.

 Speech & Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding, and Synthesis,
   Text-to-Speech, Adaptive Equalization, Nonlinear Noise Removal.

 Control, Navigation, & 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 22, 1993 (express mail is not necessary). 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:

		Gerry Tesauro
		The Salk Institute, CNL
		10010 North Torrey Pines Rd.
		La Jolla, CA 92037

Mail for registration material To:

		NIPS*93 Registration
          	NIPS Foundation
		PO Box 60035
		Pasadena, CA 91116-6035

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

NIPS*93 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Jack Cowan, University of
Chicago; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore; Publicity Chair,
Bartlett Mel, CalTech; Program Chair, Gerry Tesauro, Salk Institute;
Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, CalTech; Local Arrangements, Chuck Anderson,
Colorado State University; Tutorials Chair, Dave Touretzky,
Carnegie-Mellon, Workshop Chair, Mike Mozer, University of Colorado,
Government & Corporate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute Inc.

   DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1993 (POSTMARKED)