Call For Papers: NNSP95

[Marney Smyth]

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*                  1995 IEEE WORKSHOP ON			     *
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*           NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING		     *
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*     August 31 -- September 2, 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA  *
*          Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society           *
*       (In cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council)       *
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Invited Speakers include: Vladimir Vapnik, AT&T Bell Labs. 
                          Michael I. Jordan, MIT.
			  



                  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
 
Thanks to the sponsorship of IEEE Signal Processing Society, the
co-sponsorship of IEEE Neural Network Council, the fifth of a series
of IEEE Workshops on Neural Networks for Signal Processing will be
held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday
8/31 -- Saturday 9/2, 1995. Papers are solicited for, but not limited
to, the following topics:

++ APPLICATIONS: 
Image, speech, communications, sensors, medical, adaptive filtering,
OCR, and other general signal processing and pattern recognition
topics.

++ THEORIES:
Generalization and regularization, system identification, parameter
estimation, new network architectures, new learning algorithms, and
wavelets in NNs.

++ IMPLEMENTATIONS:
Software, digital, analog, hybrid technologies, parallel processing.


		    DETAILS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS

Prospective authors are invited to submit 5 copies of extended
summaries of no more than 6 pages. The top of the first page of the
summary should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, address,
telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address if any. Camera-ready full
papers of accepted proposals will be published in a hard-bound volume
by IEEE and distributed at the workshop.  For further information,
please contact Marney Smyth (Tel.) (617) 253 0547, (Fax) (617) 253
2964 (e-mail) marney at ai.mit.edu.

We plan to use the World Wide Web (WWW) for posting further
announcements on NNSP95 such as: submitted papers status, final
program, hotel information etc. You can use MOSAIC and access URL
site: http://www.cdsp.neu.edu.  If you do not have access to WWW use
anonymous ftp to site ftp.cdsp.neu.edu and look under the directory
/pub/NNSP95.

Please send paper submissions to:

Prof. Elias S. Manolakos 
IEEE  NNSP'95
409 Dana Research Building 
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department 
Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 

Phone: (617) 373-3021,  Fax: (617) 373-4189        

************************Please Take Note********************************

A limited amount of financial assistance is available for participants
whose papers are accepted for the Workshop. If you wish to apply for
financial assistance, please submit a C.V. and brief summary of the
reasons why you want to participate in the NNSP95 Workshop, when
submitting your paper. Financial assistance awards will not be made
until after the acceptance date of April 21, 1995.

Please submit hard copy (NOT email) applications for Financial
Assistance, along with a copy of your paper, to Dr. Federico Girosi at
the address below.
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* IMPORTANT DATES *
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Extended summary received by:            February 17

Notification of acceptance:              April 21

Photo-ready accepted papers received by: May 22 

Advanced registration received before:   June 2 

                                    
GENERAL CHAIRS

Federico Girosi
Center for Biological and Computational Learning
andd Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT, E25-201
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617)253-0548
Fax: (617)258-6287
email: girosi at ai.mit.edu

John Makhoul
BBN Systems and Technologies
70 Fawcett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: (617)873-3332
Fax: (617)873-2534
email: makhoul at bbn.com


PROGRAM CHAIR

Elias S. Manolakos
Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP)
Center for Research and Graduate Studies
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
409 Dana Research Building
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617)373-3021
Fax: (617)373-4189
email: elias at cdsp.neu.edu

FINANCE CHAIR			LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

Judy Franklin                   Mary Pat Fitzgerald, MIT
GTE Laboratories		email: marypat at ai.mit.edu
email: jfranklin at gte.com

PUBLICITY CHAIR			PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

Marney Smyth			Elizabeth J. Wilson
CBCL, MIT               	Raytheon Co. 
email: marney at ai.mit.edu	email: bwilson at sud2.ed.ray.com

TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Joshua Alspector		John Makhoul
Charles Bachmann                Alice Chiang	
Elias Manolakos                 A. Constantinides
P. Mathiopoulos                 Lee Giles
Nahesan Niranjan                Federico Girosi	
Tomaso Poggio                   Lars Kai Hansen
Jose Principe                   Yu-Hen Hu	
Wojtek Przytula                 Jenq-Neng Hwang
John Sorensen                   Bing-Huang Juang
Andreas Stafylopatis            Shigeru Katagiri
John Vlontzos                   George Kechriotis	
Raymond Watrous                 Stephanos Kollias
Christian Wellekens             Sun-Yuan Kung
Ron Williams                    Gary M. Kuhn
Barbara Yoon                    Richard Lippmann
Xinhua Zhuang