NIPS Conference Program

[Michael Jordan]

The NIPS*96 conference program is now available.  
It can be retrieved via anonymous ftp from:

	ftp://psyche.mit.edu/pub/NIPS96/nips96-program

It will also be available soon from the NIPS*96 homepage.

NIPS*96 begins on December 2 with a tutorial program and
banquet.  The NIPS*96 invited speakers are as follows:


MON DEC 2
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                Computer graphics for film:  Automatic versus manual
                techniques (Banquet talk)
                E. Enderton
                Industrial Light and Magic

TUE DEC 3
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                The CONDENSATION algorithm---conditional density
                propagation and applications to visual tracking
                (Invited)
                A. Blake
                University of Oxford

                Compositionality, MDL priors, and object recognition
                (Invited)
                S. Geman, E. Bienenstock
                Brown University

WED DEC 4
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                Plasticity of dynamics as opposed to absolute strength
                of synapse
                (Invited)
                H. Markram
                Weizmann Institute

                Transition between rate and temporal coding in neocortex as
                determined by synaptic depression
                (Invited)
                M. Tsodyks
                Weizmann Institute

THU DEC 5
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                Wavelets, wavelet packets, and beyond:
                Applications of new adaptive signal representations
                (Invited)
                D. Donoho
                Stanford University and University of California Berkeley


Michael Jordan
NIPS*96 Program Chair