ICONIP'96 CFP

[Dr. Irwin K. King]

			FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

		    1996 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
				  ON
		    NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING

  The Annual Conference of the Asian Pacific Neural Network Assembly

		 ICONIP'96, September 24 - 27, 1996

   Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

The goal  of  ICONIP'96 is  to  provide a  forum  for  researchers and
engineers from academia and industry to  meet and to exchange ideas on
the   latest developments  in   neural   information processing.   The
conference further serves to stimulate local and regional interests in
neural   information processing  and   its  potential  applications to
industries indigenous to this region.

			  CONFERENCE TOPICS
			  =================
   * Theory         * Algorithms & Architectures       * Applications
   * Supervised/Unsupervised Learning      * Hardware Implementations 
   * Hybrid Systems   * Neurobiological Systems  * Associative Memory 
   * Visual & Speech Processing      * Intelligent Control & Robotics  
   * Cognitive Science & AI                * Recurrent Net & Dynamics
   * Image Processing     * Pattern Recognition     * Computer Vision
   * Time Series Prediction   * Financial Engineering  * Optimization  
   * Fuzzy Logic    * Evolutionary Computing    * Other Related Areas


			CONFERENCE'S SCHEDULE
			=====================
              Submission of paper           February 1, 1996
              Notification of acceptance    May 1, 1996
              Early registration deadline   July 1, 1996

SUBMISSION INFORMATION
======================
Authors are invited  to  submit  one  camera-ready original  and  five
copies  of the manuscript written in  English on A4-format white paper
with one inch margins on all four sides, in one column format, no more
than six pages  including  figures and references,  single-spaced,  in
Times-Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one
side   of the  page   only.   Electronic or   fax   submission  is not
acceptable.  Additional pages will be charged at USD $50 per page.

Centered at the  top of the  first page should  be the complete title,
author(s), affiliation, mailing, and  email addresses, followed  by an
abstract  (no more  than 150  words)  and the  text.  Each  submission
should be  accompanied  by a cover   letter  indicating the contacting
author, affiliation, mailing  and  email addresses, telephone  and fax
number, and   preference  of technical     session(s) and format    of
presentation,  either  oral   or  poster  (both are   published).  All
submitted papers will be  refereed  by experts  in the field  based on
quality, clarity, originality, and significance.

Authors may    also  retrieve the   ICONIP  style, "iconip.tex"   and 
"iconip.sty"  files for the   conference   by   anonymous  FTP   at   
ftp.cs.cuhk.hk in the directory /pub/iconip96.

For  further  information,  inquiries,  and paper   submissions please
contact

ICONIP'96 Secretariat 
Department of Computer Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
Fax (852) 2603-5024
E-mail: iconip96 at cs.cuhk.hk
http://www.cs.cuhk.hk/iconip96

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General Co-Chairs
=================
Omar Wing, CUHK
Shun-ichi Amari, Tokyo U.

Advisory Committee
==================
International
-------------
Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech
Michael Arbib, U. Southern Cal.
Leo Breiman, UC Berkeley
Jack Cowan, U. Chicago
Rolf Eckmiller, U. Bonn
Jerome Friedman, Stanford U.
Stephen Grossberg, Boston U.
Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNC
Geoffrey Hinton, U. Toronto
Anil Jain, Michigan State U.
Teuvo Kohonen, Helsinki U. of Tech.
Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton U.
Robert Marks, II, U. Washington
Thomas Poggio, MIT
Harold Szu, US Naval SWC
John Taylor, King's College London
David Touretzky, CMU
C. v. d. Malsburg, Ruhr-U. Bochum
David Willshaw, Edinburgh U.

Asia-Pacific Region
-------------------
Marcelo H. Ang Jr, NUS, Singapore
Sung-Yang Bang, POSTECH, Korea
Hsin-Chia Fu, NCTU., Taiwan
Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya U., Japan
Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka U., Japan
Zhenya He, Southeastern U., China
Marwan Jabri, U. Sydney, Australia
Nikola Kasabov, U. Otago, New Zealand
Yousou Wu, Tsinghua U., China

Organizing Committee
====================
L.W. Chan (Co-Chair), CUHK
K.S. Leung (Co-Chair), CUHK
D.Y. Yeung (Finance), HKUST
C.K. Ng (Publication), CityUHK
A. Wu (Publication), CityUHK
K.P. Lam (Publicity), CUHK
M.W. Mak (Local Arr.), HKPU
C.S. Tong (Local Arr.), HKBU
T. Lee (Registration), CUHK
M. Stiber (Registration), HKUST
K.P. Chan (Tutorial), HKU
H.T. Tsui (Industry Liaison), CUHK
I. King (Secretary), CUHK

Program Committee
=================
Co-Chairs
---------
Lei Xu, CUHK
Michael Jordan, MIT
Erkki Oja, Helsinki Univ. of Tech.
Mitsuo Kawato, ATR

Members
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Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal
Chris Bishop, Aston U.
Leon Bottou, Neuristique
Gail Carpenter, Boston U.
Laiwan Chan, CUHK
Huishen Chi, Peking U.
Peter Dayan, MIT
Kenji Doya, ATR
Scott Fahlman, CMU
Francoise Fogelman, SLIGOS
Lee Giles, NEC Research Inst.
Michael Hasselmo, Harvard U.
Kurt Hornik, Technical U. Wien
Steven Nowlan, Synaptics
Jeng-Neng Hwang, U. Washington
Nathan Intrator, Technion
Larry Jackel, AT&T Bell Lab
Adam Kowalczyk, Telecom Australia
Soo-Young Lee, KAIST
Todd Leen, Oregon Grad. Inst.
Cheng-Yuan Liou, National Taiwan U.
David MacKay, Cavendish Lab
Eric Mjolsness, UC San Diego
John Moody, Oregon Grad. Inst.
Nelson Morgan, ICSI
Michael Perrone, IBM Watson Lab
Ting-Chuen Pong, HKUST
Paul Refenes, London Business School
Hava Siegelmann, Technion
Ah Chung Tsoi, U. Queensland
Benjamin Wah, U. Illinois
Andreas Weigend, Colorado U.
Ronald Williams, Northeastern U.
John Wyatt, MIT
Alan Yuille, Harvard U.
Richard Zemel, CMU