World Congress on Neural Networks 1994

[Morgan Downey]

WORLD CONGRESS ON NEURAL NETWORKS 1994 (WCNN '94)
Annual Meeting of the International Neural Network Society
Town and Country Hotel - San Diego, California, USA - June 4-9, 1994

Revised Call for Papers Due Date: Tuesday, February 15, 1994

The International Neural Network Society is pleased to announce that it can
accept post-deadline papers and is inviting INNS members and non-members to
submit papers for WCNN '94 by Tuesday, February 15, 1994.  Papers will be
reviewed by the Organizing Committee for acceptance and presentation format and
will be published in the proceedings.

INNS members can designate one paper that they have authored for automatic
acceptance and publication in the proceedings.  Papers submitted utilizing this
deadline extension will not be eligible for revision.  

Papers previously accepted by journals, or publicly accessible Tech reports may
be submitted for poster presentations.  Submit three copies of the paper with a
one page abstract of the talk which clearly cites the paper well enough to
permit easy access to it.  Only the abstract will be published.

Submission Procedures (These procedures supersede the previously published Call
for Papers information in the brochure.):

o	Six (6) copies (1 original, (5) copies) Do not fold or staple originals.

o	Six page limit in English.  $20 per page for papers exceeding (6) pages
(do not number pages).  Checks for over length charges should be made out to
INNS and must be included with submitted paper.

o	Format: camera-ready 8 1/2" x 11" white paper, 1" margins all aides, one
column format, single spaced, in Times or similar type style of 10 points or
larger, one side of paper only.  Faxed copies are not acceptable.

o	Center at the top of first page: Full title of paper, author names(s),
affiliation(s), and mailing address(es), followed by blank space, and abstract
(us to 15 lines), and text.

o	Cover letter to accompany paper must include: full title of paper,
corresponding author(s), and presenting author name, address, telephone and fax
numbers, 1st and 2nd choices of Technical Session (see session topics), and INNS
membership number if applicable.

o	Author agrees to the transfer of copyright to INNS for the
conference proceedings.  All submitted papers become the property of INNS.
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SCHEDULE:

Saturday, June 4, 1994 and Sunday, June 5, 1994
INNS UNIVERSITY SHORT COURSES

Monday, June 6, 1994
NEURAL NETWORK INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
RECEPTION
OPENING CEREMONY

Tuesday, June 7, 1994
PARALLEL SESSIONS
EXHIBITS
SPECIAL SESSION ON "BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS"
SPECIAL SESSION ON "COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS"
PLENARY 1: LOTFI ZADEH
PLENARY 2: PER BAK

Wednesday, June 8, 1994
PARALLEL SESSIONS
EXHIBITS
SPECIAL SESSION ON "FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC APPLICATIONS"
PLENARY 1: BERNARD WIDROW
PLENARY 2: MELANIE MITCHELL
SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIGINNS) SESSIONS

Thursday, June 9, 1994
PARALLEL SESSIONS
EXHIBITS
SPECIAL SESSION ON "NEURAL NETWORKS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING"
SPECIAL SESSION ON "MIND, BRAIN, AND CONSCIOUSNESS"
PLENARY 1: PAUL WERBOS
PLENARY 2: JOHN TAYLOR

Friday, June 10, 1994 and Saturday, June 11, 1994
SATELLITE MEETING: WNN/FNN 94 SAN DIEGO - NEURAL NETWORKS AND FUZZY LOGIC
Sponsoring Society: NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
Cooperating: INNS, Society for Computer Simulation, SPIE and all other
interested societies. 
For more information contact: Mary Lou Padgett, Auburn University, 1165 Owens
Road, Auburn AL 36830 ph: 205-821-2472 or 3488; fax: 205-844-1809; e-mail:
mpadgett at eng.auburn.edu -- NASA Rep: Robert Savely, NASA/JSC

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WCNN 1994 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Paul Werbos, Chair    Harold Szu    Bernard Widrow
Liaison to the European Neural Network Society: John G. Taylor
Liaison to the Japanese Neural Network Society: Kunihiko Fukushima

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: 

Daniel Alkon
Shun-ichi Amari		
James A. Anderson	
Richard Andersen		
Kaveh Ashenayi		
Andrew Barto		
David Brown
Horacio Bouzas		
Gail Carpenter		
David Casasent		
Ralph Castain
Cihan Dagli
Joel Davis
Judith Dayhoff		
Guido DeBoeck
David Fong		
Judith Franklin
Walter Freeman		
Kunihiko Fukushima		
Michael Georgiopoulos
Lee Giles		
Stephen Grossberg		
Dan Hammerstrom
Robert Hecht-Nielsen
Robert Jannarone
Jari Kangas
Christof Koch
Teuvo Kohonen	
Bart Kosko
Clifford Lau
Soo-Young Lee		
George Lendaris
Daniel Levine
Alianna Maren
Kenneth Marko
Thomas McAvoy
Thomas McKenna
Larry Medsker	
Len Neiberg
Erkki Oja	
Robert Pap
Rich Peterson		
David Rumelhart		
Mohammed Sayeh
Dejan Sobajic
Harold Szu
John Taylor		
Brian Telfer
Shiro Usui		
John Weinstein
Bernard Widrow		
Takeshi Yamakawa
Lotfi Zadeh
Mona Zaghloul		

COOPERATING SOCIETIES/INSTITUTIONS:

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
American Institute for Chemical Engineers
American Physical Society
Center for Devices and Radiological Health, US FDA
Cognitive Science Society
European Neural Network Society
International Fuzzy Systems Association
Japanese Neural Network Society
Korean Neural Network Society
US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
US Office of Naval Research
Society for Manufacturing Engineers
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Division of Cancer Treatment, US National Cancer Institute

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SESSIONS AND CHAIRS:

1 Biological Vision ... S. Grossberg
Invited Talk: Stephen Grossberg - Recent Results in Biological Vision

2 Machine Vision ... K. Fukushima, R. Hecht-Nielsen
Invited Talk: Kunihiko Fukushima - Visual Pattern Recognition with Selective
Attention
Invited Talk: Robert Hecht-Nielsen - Foveal Active Vision: Methods, Results, and
Prospects

3 Speech and Language ... D. Rumelhart, T. Peterson

4 Biological Neural Networks ... T. McKenna, J. Davis
	Session One: From Biological Networks to Silicon
		Invited Speakers:	Frank Werblin, UC Berkeley
					Richard Granger, UC Irvine
					Theodore Berger, USC
	Session Two: Real Neurons in Networks
		Invited Speakers: Jim Schwaber, DuPont
					Misha Mahowald, Oxford University
					David Stenger, NRL
	Session Three: Networks for Motor Control and Audition
		Invited Speakers:	Randy Beer, Case Western Reserve
University
					Daniel Bullock, Boston University
					Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland
	Session Four: Learning and Cognition and Biological Networks
		Invited Speakers: Mark Gluck, Rutgers University
					Nestor Schmajuk, Northwestern University
					Michael Hasselmo, Harvard University

5 Neurocontrol and Robotics ... A. Barto, K. Ashenayi

6 Supervised Learning ... G. Lendaris, S-Y. Lee
Invited Talk: George Lendaris - Apriori Knowledge and NN Architectures
Invited Talk: Soo-Young Lee - Error Minimization, Generalization, and Hardware
Implementability of Supervised Learning

7 Unsupervised Learning ... G. Carpenter, R. Jannarone
Invited Talk: Gail Carpenter - Distributed Recognition Codes and Catastrophic
Forgetting
Invited Talk: Robert Jannarone - Current Trends of Learning Algorithms

8 Pattern Recognition ... T. Kohonen, B. Telfer
Invited Talk: Teuvo Kohonen - Physiological Model for the Self-Organizing
Map
Invited Talk: Brian Telfer - Challenges in Automatic Object Recognition:
Adaptivity, Wavelets, Confidence

9 Prediction and System Identification ... P. Werbos, G. Deboeck
Invited Talk: Guido Deboeck - Neural, Genetic, and Fuzzy Systems for Trading
Chaotic Financial Markets

10 Cognitive Neuroscience ... D. Alkon, D. Fong

11 Links to Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence ... J. Anderson, L.
Medsker
Invited Talk: Larry Medsker - Hybrid Intelligent Systems: Research and
Development Issues

12 Neural Fuzzy Systems ... L. Zadeh, B. Kosko

13 Signal Processing ... B. Widrow, H. Bouzas
Invited Talk: Bernard Widrow - Nonlinear Adaptive Signal Processing

14 Neurodynamics and Chaos ... H. Szu, M. Zaghloul
Invited Talk: Walter Freeman - Biological Neural Network Chaos
Invited Talk: Harold Szu - Artificial Neural Network Chaos

15 Hardware Implementations ... C. Lau, R. Castain, M. Sayeh
Invited Talk: Clifford Lau - Challenges in Neurocomputers
Invited Talk: Mark Holler - High Performance Classifier Chip

16 Associative Memory ... J. Taylor, S. Usui
Invited Talk: John G. Taylor - Where is Associative Memory Going?
Invited Talk: Shiro Usui - Review of Associative Memory

17 Applications ... D. Casasent, B. Pap, D. Sobajic
Invited Talk: David Casasent - Optical Neural Networks and Applications
Invited Talk: Yoh-Han Pao - Mathematical Basis for the Power of the
Functional-Link Net Approach: Applications to Semiconductor Processing 
Invited Talk: Mohammed Sayeh - Advances in Optical Neurocomputers

18 Neuroprocessing and Virtual Reality ... L. Giles, H. Hawkins
Invited Talk: Harold Hawkins - Opportunities for Virtual Environment and
Neuroprocessing

19 Circuits and System Neuroscience ... J. Dayhoff, C. Koch
Invited Talk: Judith Dayhoff - Temporal Processing for Neurobiological Signal
Processing
Invited Talk: Christof Koch - Temporal Analysis of Spike Patterns in Monkeys and
Artificial Neural Networks 

20 Mathematical Foundations ... S-I. Amari, D. Levine
Invited Talk: Shun-ichi Amari - Manifolds of Neural Networks and EM Algorithms

Additional session invited talks to be determined. Session invited talks will
not be scheduled to run concurrently at WCNN 1994. *Invited

INNS wishes to acknowledge the US Office of Naval Research for its generous
support of the Biological Neural Networks Session at WCNN 1994

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NEW IN '94! INNS UNIVERSITY SHORT COURSES

INNS is proud to announce the establishment of the INNS University Short Course
format to replace the former tutorial program. The new 2-day, 4-hour per course
format provides twice the instruction with much greater depth and detail. There
will be six parallel tracks offered in three segments (morning, afternoon, and
evening each day). INNS reserves the right to cancel Short Courses and refund
payment should registration not meet the minimum number of persons required per
Short Course. [Dates and times are listed after each instructor; course
descriptions are available by contacting INNS.]

A. Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki University of Technology  - SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1994,
6-10 PM
Advances in the Theory and Applications of Self-Organizing Maps

B. James A. Anderson, Brown University  - SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1994, 1-5 PM
Neural Network Computation as Viewed by Cognitive Science and Neuroscience

C. Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology  - SUNDAY, JUNE 5. 1994,
6-10 PM
Vision Chips: Implementing Vision Algorithms with Analog VLSI Circuits

D. Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka University  - SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1994, 1-5 PM
Visual Pattern Recognition with Neural Networks

E. John G. Taylor, King's College London  - SUNDAY, JUNE 5. 1994, 1-5 PM
Stochastic Neural Computing: From Living Neurons to Hardware

F. Harold Szu, Naval Surface Warfare Center  - SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1994, 6-10 PM
Spatiotemporal Information Processing by Means of McCollouch-Pitts and Chaotic
Neurons

G. Shun-ichi Amari, University of Tokyo  - SUNDAY, JUNE 5. 1994, 8 AM-12 PM
Learning Curves, Generalization Errors and Model Selection

H. Walter J. Freeman, University of California, Berkeley  - SUNDAY, JUNE 5.
1994, 8 AM-12 PM
Review of Neurobiology: From Single Neurons to Chaotic Dynamics of Cerebral
Cortex

I. Judith Dayhoff, University of Maryland  - SATURDAY, JUNE 4. 1994, 8 AM-12 PM
Neurodynamics of Temporal Processing

J. Richard A. Anderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  - SATURDAY, JUNE
4. 1994, 6-10 PM
Neurobiologically Plausible Neural Networks

K. Paul Werbos, National Science Foundation  - SUNDAY, JUNE 5. 1994, 1-5 PM