NIPS workshop proposals due May 20

[NIPS Conference Office]

                       CALL FOR PROPOSALS

                NIPS*95 Post Conference Workshops
                     December 1 and 2, 1995
                         Vail, Colorado


Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing
Systems 1995 conference, workshops on current  topics  in  neural
information processing will be held on December 1 and 2, 1995, in
Vail, Colorado.  Proposals by qualified individuals interested in
chairing  one of these workshops are solicited.  Past topics have
included: active learning and control, architectural issues,  at-
tention,  bayesian analysis, benchmarking neural network applica-
tions, computational complexity issues,  computational  neurosci-
ence, fast training techniques, genetic algorithms, music, neural
network dynamics, optimization, recurrent nets, rules and connec-
tionist  models,  self-organization,  sensory biophysics, speech,
time series prediction, vision and audition, implementations, and
grammars.

The goal of the workshops is to provide  an  informal  forum  for
researchers  to  discuss  important  issues  of current interest.
Sessions will meet in the morning and in the  afternoon  of  both
days,  with  free time in between for ongoing individual exchange
or outdoor activities.  Concrete open and/or controversial issues
are  encouraged and preferred as workshop topics.  Representation
of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are partic-
ularly  encouraged.   Individuals  proposing  to chair a workshop
will have responsibilities including: 1) arranging short informal
presentations  by  experts working on the topic, 2) moderating or
leading the discussion and reporting its high  points,  findings,
and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the
"gong show"), and 3) writing a brief summary.

Submission Instructions: Interested parties should submit a short
proposal  for  a workshop of interest postmarked by May 20, 1995.
(Express mail is not necessary.  Submissions by  electronic  mail
will  also  be  accepted.)   Proposals  should include a title, a
description of what the workshop is to  address  and  accomplish,
the  proposed  length  of the workshop (one day or two days), and
the planned format.  It should motivate why the topic is  of  in-
terest  or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the
targeted group of participants is.  In addition,  please  send  a
brief  resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publi-
cations and evidence of scholarship in  the  field  of  interest.
Submissions  should include contact name, address, email address,
phone number and fax number if available. Mail proposals to:

                     Michael P. Perrone
                     NIPS*95 Workshops Chair
                     IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
                     P.O. Box 704
                     Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
                     (email: mpp at watson.ibm.com)


          PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 20, 1995

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