NNSP95 - Formal Program

Marney Smyth marney at ai.mit.edu
Thu Jun 1 15:09:48 EDT 1995


			1995 IEEE  WORKSHOP ON
			----------------------

		NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING
		-------------------------------------

		    August 31 - September 2, 1995, 

	Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

The full program for NNSP95 is now available, and you can get the
information here, or by consulting our WWW Homepage at this URL:
http://www.cdsp.neu.edu/info/nnsp95.html, or by anonymous ftp 
at site ftp.cdsp.neu.edu public directory /pub/NNSP95.

NNSP95 is sponsored by the Neural Networks Technical Committee of the
IEEE Signal Processing Society, in cooperation with the IEEE Neural
Network Council and with co-sponsorship from ONR/ARPA and NSF (through
CBCL, the Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT).

The Workshop is designed to serve as a regular forum for researchers
from universities and industry who are interested in interdisciplinary
research on neural networks for signal processing applications. NNSP95
offers a showcase for current research results in key areas, including
learning algorithms, network architectures, speech processing, image
processing, computer vision, adaptive signal processing, medical
signal processing, digital communications and other applications.


GENERAL CHAIRS 

   -- Federico Girosi 
   Center for Biological and Computational Learning, 
   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
    409 Dana Build., Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
    Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115
    tel: (617)373-3021, fax: (617)-373-4189, email: elias at cdsp.neu.edu

PROCEEDINGS CHAIR

    -- Elizabeth J. Wilson, Raytheon Co. 
    Marlborough, MA, email: bwilson at sud2.ed.ray.com

FINANCE CHAIR

    -- Judy Franklin, GTE Laboratories Incorporated
    Waltham, MA 02254, email: jfranklin at gte.com

PUBLICITY CHAIR

   -- Marney Smyth , MIT, email: marney at ai.mit.edu


LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR

   -- Mary Pat Fitzgerald , MIT, email: marypat at ai.mit.edu



TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE 

   Joshua Alspector 		(Bellcore, USA)
   Charles Bachmann 		(Naval Research Lab., USA)
   Alice Chiang 		(MIT Lincoln Lab., USA)
   A. Constantinides 		(Imperial College, UK)
   Lee Giles 			(NEC Research, USA)
   Federico Girosi              (CBCL, MIT, USA)
   Lars Kai Hansen 		(Tech. U. of Denmark, Denmark)
   Yu-Hen Hu                    (U. of Wisconsin, USA)
   Jenq-Neng Hwang 		(U. of Washington, USA)
   Bing-Huang Juang 		(AT&T Bell Lab., USA)
   Shigeru Katagiri 		(ATR Japan)
   George Kechriotis 		(Thinking Machines Inc., USA)
   Stephanos Kollias 		(National Tech. U. of Athens, Greece)
   Sun-Yuan Kung 		(Princeton U., USA)
   Gary M. Kuhn 		(Siemens Corp. Research, USA)
   Richard Lippmann 		(MIT Lincoln Lab., USA)
   John Makhoul 		(BBN Lab., USA)
   Elias Manolakos 		(CDSP, Northeastern U., USA)
   P. Takis Mathiopoulos 	(U. of British Columbia, Canada)
   Mahesan Niranjan 		(Cambridge U., UK) 
   Tomaso Poggio 		(CBCL, MIT, USA)
   Jose Principe 		(U. of Florida, USA)
   Wojtek Przytula 		(Hughes Research Lab., USA)
   John Sorensen 		(Tech. U. of Denmark, Denmark)
   Andreas Stafylopatis 	(National Tech. U. of Athens, Greece)
   John Vlontzos 		(Intracom S.A., Greece)
   Raymond Watrous 		(Siemens Corp. Research, USA)
   Christian Wellekens 		(Eurecom, France)
   Ron Williams 		(Northeastern U., USA)
   Barbara Yoon 		(ARPA, USA)
   Xinhua Zhuang 		(U. of Missouri, USA)


       TENTATIVE ADVANCE PROGRAM OF NNSP'95, CAMBRIDGE MA, USA
       -------------------------------------------------------


	       ****** THURSDAY AUGUST 31st, 1995 ******


8:30 am -- 8:45 am
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OPENING REMARKS: Federico Girosi


8:45 am -- 9:30 am
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PLENARY TALK 1: "Learning from Hints" 
		-- Yaser Abu-Mostafa, Caltech, USA 


9:30 am -- 9:50 am	Coffee Break
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9:50 am -- 10:50 am
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THEORY 1: (Oral Presentations) 

	Missing Data in Nonlinear Time-Series Prediction 
	-- Volker Tresp 
	-- Central Research,Siemens AG, Germany 

	Non-Linear Time Series Modeling with Self-Organization Feature Maps
	-- Jose C. Principe, Ludong Wang 
	-- University of Florida, USA

	Neural Networks for Function Approximation 
	-- H.N. Mhaskar, L. Khachikyan 
	-- California State University Los Angeles, USA 


10:50 am -- 11:30 am
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THEORY 2:  (3-minute oral  preview of poster presentations)

	Simultaneous Design of Feature Extractor and Pattern
	Classifier Using the Minimum Classification Error Training Algorithm 
	-- K.K.Paliwal, M. Bacchiani, Y. Sagisaka
	-- ATR Interpreting Communications Laboratories, Japan

	Discriminative Subspace Method for Minimum Error Pattern Recognition
	-- Hideyuki Watanabe, Shigeru Katagiri
	-- ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Labs, Japan

	A unifying view of Stochastic Approximation Kalman Filter and
	Backpropagation
	-- Enrico Capobianco
	-- Statistics Department, University of Padua, Italy

	Globally-Ordered Topology-Preserving Maps Achieved with a
	Learning Rule Performing Local Weight Updates Only
	-- Marc M. Van Hulle
	-- Laboratorium voor Neuro-en Psychofysiologie, K.U. Leuven, Belgium

	A Self-Organizing System for the Development of Neural Network
	Parameter Estimators 
	-- Michael Manry
	-- The University of Texas at Arlington, USA 

	Recognition of Oscillatory Signals Using a Neural Network Oscillator
	-- Masakazu Matsugu, Chi-Sang Poon
	-- Imaging Research Center, Canon Inc., Japan

	Principal Feature Classification 
	-- Donald W. Tufts, Qi Li 
	-- University of Rhode Island, USA

	A Habituation Based Neural Network Structure for Classifying
	Spatio-Temporal Patterns
	-- Bryan W. Stiles, Joydeep Ghosh 
	-- The University of Texas at Austin, USA 

	A Numerical Approach for Estimating Higher Order Spectra Using
	Neural Network Autoregressive Model 
	-- Naohiro Toda, Shiro Usui 
	-- Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan 
	
	Fuzzy Neural Network Approach Based on Dirichlet Tesselations
	for Nearest Neighbor Classification of Patterns
	-- K. Blekas, A. Likas, A. Stafylopatis 
	-- National Technical University of Athens, Greece 

	The Dynamics of Associative Memory with a Self-Consistent Noise 
	-- Ioan Opris 
	-- Department of Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania 

	Recursive Nonlinear Identification using Multiple Model Algorithm
	-- Visakan Kadirkamanathan 
	-- University of Sheffield, UK 


11:30 am -- 12:30 pm
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THEORY 2: (poster presentations)




12:30 pm -- 2:00 pm	LUNCH BREAK 
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2:00 pm -- 2:45 pm
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PLENARY TALK 2: "Regularization: Theory and New Algorithms" 
		-- John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute, USA


2:45 pm -- 4:05 pm
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SPEECH PROCESSING: (Oral Presentations) 

	Speaker Verification using Phoneme-Based Neural Tree Networks
	and Phonetic Weighting Scoring Method
	-- Han-Sheng Liou, Richard J. Mammone 
	-- CAIP Center, Rutgers University, USA 

	Scaling Down: Applying Large Vocabulary Hybrid HMM-MLP
	Methods to Telephone Recognition of Digits and Natural Numbers 
	-- Kristine Ma, Nelson Morgan 
	-- International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA 

	Combining Local PCA and Radial Basis Function Networks for
	Speaker Normalization
	-- Cesare Furlanello, D. Giuliani 
	-- Instituto per La Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Italy 
	
	Discriminatory Measures for Speaker Recognition 
	-- Kevin R. Farrell 
	-- Dictaphone Corporation, Stratford, CT, USA 


4:05 pm -- 4:25 pm	Coffee Break
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4:25 pm	-- 4:50pm
--------------------

THEORY AND SPEECH PROCESSING: (3-minute oral preview of poster
presentations)

	Mutual Information in a Linear Noisy Network 
	-- Alessandro Campa, Paolo Del Giudice, Nestor Parga,
	Jean-Pierre Nadal
	-- Istituto Superiore di Sanita and INFN Sezione Sanita, Italy 
	
	Constrained Pole-Zero Filters as Discrete-Time Operators for
	System Approximation 
	-- Andrew D. Back,Ah Chung Tsoi 
	-- University of Queensland, Australia

	Prior Knowledge and the Creation of "Virtual" Examples for RBF
	Networks
	-- F. Girosi, N. Chan 
	-- MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA 

	From Artificial Neural Network Inversion to Hidden Markov
	Model Inversion: Application to Robust Speech Recognition
	-- Seokyong Moon, Jenq-Neng Hwang 
	-- University of Washington, USA 

	Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts Methodology Applied to
	Continuous Speech Recognition 
	-- Ying Zhao, Richard Schwartz, Jason Sroka, John Makhoul 
	-- BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA, USA 

	A Speech Recognizer with Low Complexity Based on RNN 
	-- Claus Kasper, Herbert Reininger, Dietrich Wolf, Harald Wust 
	-- J.W. Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt, Germany 

	Automatic Speech Segmentation Using Neural Tree Network (NTN) 
	-- Manish Sharma, Richard Mammone 
	-- CAIP Center, Rutgers University, USA 


4:50pm -- 5:30 pm
--------------------

THEORY AND SPEECH PROCESSING   (Poster Presentations)





7:30pm -- 9:30 pm
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PANEL DISCUSSION: "Why Neural Networks are not Dead" 
		-- Moderator: Gary Kuhn (Siemens,Princeton, NJ) 
		-- Participants: 
                                 T.Poggio, MIT
                                 S. Grossberg, BU
                                 J. Makhoul, BBN
                                 P. Ienne, EPFL
                                 N. Morgan, ICSI
                                 S. Katagiri, ATR



	      ******  FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1st, 1995 ******


8:30 am -- 9:15 am
--------------------

PLENARY TALK 3: "Neural Networks for Electronic Eyes" 
		-- S.Y. Kung, Princeton University, USA


9:15 am -- 9:35 am	Coffee Break
--------------------


9:35 am -- 10:55 am
--------------------

IMAGE PROCESSING / COMPUTER VISION (Oral Presentations) 

	Motion Estimation and Segmentation using a Recurrent Mixture
	of Experts Architecture
	-- Yair Weiss,Edward H. Adelson 
	-- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA 

	Using perceptron-like algorithms for the analysis and
	parameterization of object motion 
	-- M. Mattavelli,E. Amaldi 
	-- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland 

	A Multiple Scale Neural System for Boundary and Surface
        Representation of SAR Data
	-- Stephen Grossberg, Ennio Mingolla, James Williamson 
	-- Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University, USA 

	A Neural Network Approach to Face/Palm Recognition 
	-- S.Y. Kung, M. Fang, S.H. Lin  
	-- Princeton University, USA 

10:55 am -- 11:30 am
--------------------

IMAGE PROCESSING / COMPUTER VISION (3-minute oral preview of poster
presentations)

	A Probabilistic DBNN with Applications to Sensor Fusion and 
        Object Recognition 
	-- Shang-Hung Lin, Long-Ji Lin, S.Y. Kung 
	-- Princeton University, USA 

	Sample Weighting when Training Self-Organizing Maps for Image
	Compression
	-- Jari Kangas 
	-- Helsinski University of Technology, Finland 

	Estimating Image Velocity with Convected Activation Profiles: 
        Analysis and Improvements for Special Cases
	-- Robert K. Cunningham, Allen M. Waxman
	-- Machine Intelligence Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA 

	Pruning Projection Pursuit Models for Improved Cloud Detection
	in AVIRIS Imagery
	-- Charles M. Bachmann, Eugene E. Clothiaux, John W. Moore,
	Dong Q. Luong
	-- Airborne Radr Branch Code 5365, Naval Research Laboratory, USA 

	A New Learning Scheme for the Recognition of Dynamic
	Handwritten Characters
	-- Fidimahery Andrianasy, Maurice Milgram 
	-- PARC/UPMC, France 

	Velocity Measurement of Granular Flow with a Hopfield Network 
	-- Jingeol Lee, Jose C. Principe, Daniel M. Hanes 
	-- University of Florida, USA 

	Neural Network Based Image Segmentation for Image Interpolation 
	-- Stefano Marsi, Sergio Carrato
	-- University of Trieste, Italy

	Learning a Distribution-based Face Model for Human Face Detection 
	-- Kah-Kay Sung, Tomaso Poggio 
	-- MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA 

	Action-Based Neural Networks for Effective Recognition of Images 
	-- Vassilios N. Alexopoulos, Stefanos D. Kollias 
	-- National Technical University of Athens, Greece 

	Feature-Locked Loop and its Application to Image Databases 
	-- Alex Sherstinsky, Rosalind W. Picard 
	-- Media Laboratory, MIT, USA 

	An Error Diffusion Neural Network for Digital Image Halftoning 
	-- Barry L. Shoop, Eugene K. Ressler
	-- United States Military Academy, USA 


11:30 am -- 12:30 pm
--------------------

IMAGE PROCESSING / COMPUTER VISION   (Poster Presentations)


12:30 pm -- 2:00 pm	LUNCH BREAK 
--------------------

2:00 pm -- 2:45 pm
--------------------

PLENARY TALK 4: "Learning algorithms for probabilistic trees, chains,
		and networks"
		-- Michael I. Jordan, MIT, USA


2:45 pm -- 4:05 pm
--------------------

OTHER APPLICATIONS (Oral Presentations) 

	Estimation of the Glucose Metabolism from Dynamic PET-Scans
	Using Neural Networks
	-- Claus Svarer, Soren Holm, Niels Morch, Olaf Paulson and L.K. Hansen
	-- Department of Neurology, The University of Kopenhagen, Denmark

	Nonlinear Echo Cancellation Using a Partial Adaptive Time
	Delay Neural Network
	-- A.N. Birkett, R.A. Goubran 
	-- Carleton University, Canada 

	Customized ECG Beat Classifier Mixture of Experts
	-- Yu Hen Hu, Surekha Palreddy, Willis J. Tompkins
	-- University of Wisconsin, USA

	Semiautomated Extraction of Decision Relevant Features from a
	Raw Data Based Artificial Neural Network Demonstrated by the Problem
	of Saccade Detection in EOG Recordings of Smooth Pursuit Eye
	Movements
	-- Peter K. Tigges, Norbert Kathmann, Rolf R. Engel
	-- Psychiatric Clinic, University of Munich, Germany


4:05 pm -- 4:25 pm	Coffee Break
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4:25 pm -- 5:05 pm
--------------------
OTHER APPLICATIONS / IMPLEMENTATIONS (3-minute oral preview of poster
presentations)


	EEG Signal Classification with Different Signal Representations
	-- Charles W. Anderson, Saikumar V. Devulapalli, Erik A. Stolc
	-- Colorado State University, USA

	Design and Evaluation of Neural Classifiers - Application to
	Skin Lesion Classification
	-- Mads Hintz-Madsen, Lars Kai Hansen, Jan Larsen, Eric Olesen and 
	-- Krzysztof T. Drzewiecki 
	-- Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

	A Study of the Application of the CMAC Artificial Neural
	Network to the Problem of Gas Sensor Array Calibration 
	-- Parag M. Bajaria, Bruce E. Segee
	-- University of Maine, USA

	Classification of Gamma Ray Signals Using Neural Networks
	-- N.G. Bourbakis, A. Tacsillo, M. Tacsillo
	-- AAAI LAb., Binghamton University, USA

	Adaptive Preprocessing for On-Line Learning with Adaptive
	Resonance Theory (ART) Networks
	-- Harald Ruda, Magnus Snorasson
	-- Cognitive and Neural Systems Department, Boston University, USA

	Intelligent Network Monitoring 
	-- Cynthia S. Hood, Chuanyi Ji
	-- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

	A Robust Backward Adaptive Quantizer 
	-- Dominique Martinez, Woodward Yang 
	-- Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA 

	A Maximum Partial Likelihood Framework for Channel
	Equalization by Distribution Learning
	-- Tulay Adali, Xiao Liu, Kemal Sonmez 
	-- University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA

	Constructive Neural Network Design for the Solution of Two
	State Classification: Problems with Application to Channel
	Equalization
	-- Catherine Z.W. Hassell Sweatman, Gavin J. Gibson, Bernard Mulgrew
	-- University of Edinburgh, UK

	A Parallel Mapping of Backpropagation Algorithm for Mesh
	Signal Processor
	-- Shoab A. Khan, Vijay K. Madisetti 
	-- Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

	Digital Neuroimplementations of Visual Motion-Tracking Systems 
	-- Anna Maria Colla, Luca Trogu, Rodolfo Zunino
	-- University of Genova, Italy 

	Level Crossing Time Interval Circuit for Micropower Analog
	VLSI Auditory Processing 
	-- Nagendra Kumar, Gert Cauwenberghs, Andreas G. Andreou 
	-- Johns Hopkins University, USA 


5:05 pm -- 6:05 pm
--------------------
OTHER APPLICATIONS / IMPLEMENTATIONS (Poster Presentations)


			 7:00 pm GALA DINNER: Grand Clam Bake
			 --------------------




	     ******  SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2nd, 1995 ******


8:30 am -- 9:15 am
--------------------

PLENARY TALK 5: "Structure of Learning Theory" 
		-- Vladimir Vapnik, AT at T Bell Labs, USA 


9:15 am -- 9:35 am	Coffee Break
--------------------


9:35 am	-- 10:35 am	
--------------------

COMMUNICATIONS (Oral Presentations) 

	Optimum Lag and Subset Selection for Radial Basis Function Equaliser 
	-- Eng-Siong Chng, Bernard Mulgrew, Shen Chen, Gavin Gibson
	-- The University of Edinburgh, UK 

	Channel Equalization by Finite Mixtures and EM Algorithm 
	-- Lei Xu 
	-- The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 

	Comparison of a Neural Network based Receiver to the Optimal
	and Multistage CDMA Multiuser Detectors
	-- George Kechriotis, Elias S. Manolakos 
	-- Northeastern University, USA 


10:35 am -- 11:55 am
--------------------

THEORY 3 (Oral Presentations)

	Empirical Generalization Assessment of Neural Network Models 
	-- Jan Larsen, Lars Kai Hansen 
	-- Technical University of Denmark, Denmark 

	Active Learning the Weights of a RBF Network 
	-- Kah-Kay Sung, Partha Niyogi 
	-- MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, USA 

	A Novel Approach to Pattern Recognition Based on Discriminative Metric Design 
	-- Hideyuki Watanabe, Tsuyoshi Yamaguchi, Shigeru Katagiri 
	-- ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Japan 

	A Maximum Entropy Approach for Optimal Statistical Classification
	-- David Miller, Ajit Rao, Kenneth Rose, Allen Gersho 
	-- University of California Santa Barbara, USA


******************** END OF ADVANCE TECHNICAL PROGRAM  *****************




                   NNSP95 REGISTRATION FORM 
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1995 IEEE Workshop on
Neural Networks for Signal Processing
August 31, 1995 - September 2, 1995
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA

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fees (see above). Payment of late registration must be 
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HOTEL ACCOMMODATION

NNSP95 will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA.
The hotel is centrally located overloooking the Charles River, and offers 
very nice views of Boston and Cambridge.

Hotel accommodations are the responsibility of each participant. 

The Royal Sonesta Hotel has reserved a block of rooms for this
event. The special room rates for NNSP95 participants are: Single
U.S. $130.00 per night+ Double U.S.  $130.00 per night+

Please be aware that these prices do not include Massachusetts State
tax (5.7%) and a city tax (4%).

There are a number of important points to be aware of with regard to
hotel reservations for the Workshop:

* All reservation will be held until 6pm on the day of arrival, unless
guaranteed for late arrival. Guaranteed reservations will be held for
the night of arrival only. If you fail to take up your reservation,
you will be charged for one night's room, with tax .

* These special rates apply between August 29th and September 2nd,
inclusive.

* After July 29 there is no guarantee that rooms are available, so we
strongly recommend making reservations early.

* You must quote your participation in the IEEE Workshop on Neural
Networks for Signal Processing when booking the room, in order to
qualify for this special rate.

To make reservations, call the hotel directly at: 617-491-3600

The address of the hotel is:

Royal Sonesta Hotel
5 Cambridge Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02142
phone: 617-491-3600
fax: 617-661-5956


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TRAVEL INFORMATION

Possible ways to get to the Royal Sonesta are: 

* From the North via Route 93 South: Take 93 South to Exit 26,
"Cambridge/Somerville & Storrow Drive", Follow directions below "From
the South".

* From the Airport:Take the main airport roadway (one way) and follow
the signs for "Sumner Tunnel, Boston/Rt. 93 North." Go through the
tunnel and take an immediate right onto 93 North. Follow directions
below "From the South"

* From the South via route 93 north: Take 93 North through Boston to
Exit 26, "Cambridge/Somerville & Storrow Drive." Go down and around
exit ramp and stay to the far right, following signs for Cambridge. DO
NOT GET ON STORROW DRIVE. At the end of the ramp, at a set of lights,
take a left onto Nashua Street (you will pass beneath the bridge on
which there is a sign for the Museum of Science) and take immediate
right on Rt. 28 North/O'Brien Highway. Go past the Museum of Science
and at the first set of lights take a left on Edwin Land Blvd. The
Royal Sonesta is on the left, across the street from the Cambridgeside
Galleria Mall.

* From the West via Mass. Turnpike/Route 90 East: Take the
Mass. Turnpike to Exit 18, "Allston/Cambridge" (left-sided exit). Go
through the toll booth and bear right, following signs for Cambridge
and Somerville. Proceed through two sets of lights and go straight
over the River Street Bridge, crossing over the Charles River, and
take an immediate right on Memorial Drive East (the Mobil Gas station
will be in front of you).  At the first split stay in the left lane
and proceed over the bridge ("Cars Only"). At the second split,
shortly after the Hyatt Regency Hotel on left, stay left and go under
the overpass ("Cars Only"). Move immediately to the right lane and
bear to the right at the last split. Memorial Drive now turns into
Edwin Lane Blvd. Proceed under the Longfellow Bridge and the Royal
Sonesta Hotel will be on your right at the second set of lights.

* From the West via Route 2 East: Take Rt. 2 East and follow signs for
"Watertown/Boston & Rt. 3." You will pass the Alewife train station on
the right. At the rotary stay to the left and continue on Route 3;
merge onto Memorial Drive East (the CHarles River will be on the
right). Follow directions according to "From the West via Mass Pike"
(above).

Parking:
The Royal Sonesta has two parking garages to accommodate guests and
visitors.  If the internal garage is full, the parking attendant in
the booth will direct you across the street to the Cambridgeside
Galleria Mall, in which the hotel has a small parking section.














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