Workshop

[Istvan Berkeley]

           CONNECTIONISM FOR COGNITIVISTS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS


On the 25-27 May, 1996, a major international workshop on recent 
theoretical and applicational aspects of network architectures will be held 
at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop has a unique 
structure: approximately half of it will be devoted to presentations of 
theoretical work by eminent researchers, while the other half will 
involve hands-on introductions to new software that allows for the use of 
learning algorithms and techniques for hidden-unit activation analysis 
that are not available to researchers whose main knowledge of networks
stems from the seminal 1986 PDP volumes by Rumelhart, McClelland, et 
al., or who are, indeed, unfamiliar with the details of *any* PDP 
modelling techniques, but who would like to understand in detail why they 
have produced so much interest and debate among cognitive scientists and 
others. For the second purpose, all registrants will have access to 
workstations.

The workshop has been designed to appeal to, and to be accessible to,
researchers from a wide range of disciplines, especially including 
cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science and
telecommunications engineering. We stress that no particular disciplinary 
background, or technical experience with network models, will be presupposed 
in the design of the workshop. 

Principal speakers include:

David Rumelhart, Stanford
Jerome Feldman, Berkeley/ICSI
Paul Skokowski, Stanford
Christopher Thornton, Sussex
Malcolm Forster, Wisconsin at Madison
John Bullinaria, Birkbeck College, London
Istvan Berkeley, Alberta/Southwestern Louisiana

Please note that registration space is limited, and registrations will be 
accepted in a first-come first-serve basis.

 Dates: May 25-27, 1995
Registration fees: Regular: $75.00 (CDN)
                   Student: $35.00 (CDN)
Banquet (optional):         $35.00 (CDN)

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

Those wishing to attend the conference may register either 
electronically, or by mail.

To register electronically, send the following information to 
<dross at aix1.uottawa.ca>:

NAME:
AFFILIATION:
REGULAR/STUDENT?:
BANQUET (Y/N?):
ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (no. of nights, preference as between student 
residence accommodation [subject to availability] or hotel): 
MAILING ADDRESS:
E-MAIL:

Electronic registrations will be considered confirmed upon 
receipt of a cheque for the appropriate amount, in either 
Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent. Cheques should be 
made payable to CARLETON UNIVERSITY, and should be sent to the 
address given for postal registration below.

To register by post, send the information indicated above, 
with a cheque for the appropriate amount, to:

CONNECTIONISM
c/o Professor Don Ross
Department of Philosophy
Morisset Hall
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON
CANADA K1N 6N5
e-mail: <dross at aix1.uottawa.ca>              









Istvan S. N. Berkeley,                  email: istvan at psych.ualberta.ca
Biological Computation Project &
Department of Philosophy,
c/o 4-108 Humanities Center
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta                       Tel:  +1 403 436 4182
T6G 2E5, Canada                         Fax:  +1 403 437 2261