Summer School info (corrected)

[Marco Gori]

I'd like to post the announcement of the international school on ``adaptive
processing of sequences,'' which will be held in Vietri sul Mare (Salerno, IT)
next September. Please, don't hesitate to ask any eventual editing of this message
so as to make it suitable for connectionist news. 

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

-- Marco Gori.


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    		    CAIANIELLO SUMMER SCHOOL 
                                 on
                  Adaptive Processing of Sequences
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                  Vietri sul Mare, Salerno (Italy)
                         6-14 September 1997

                             Directors

                      C.L. Giles and M. Gori
    

                             Lectures

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C.L. Giles (NEC, USA)		  M. Gori (Siena Univ. IT)
A.C. Tsoi (Wollongong Univ. Aus)  P. Baldi (Caltech, USA)
Y. Bengio (Montreal Univ. CA)	  P. Frasconi (Florence Univ. IT)
H. Bourlard (IDIAP, CH)		  H. Siegelmann (Technion Univ. Israel)
P. Gallinari (Curie Univ. FR)	  Z. Ghahramani (Toronto Univ. CA)	
B.A. Pearlmutter (Salk Ins., USA) E. Wan (Oregon Inst. USA)
M. Mozer (Colorado Univ. USA)	  A. Sperduti (Pisa Univ. IT)
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		            Objectives

This summer school is intended to provide a unified view of different
techniques for processing temporal information that rely hardly on
learning.  The topics of the school include architectures (e.g., recurrent
networks, Markovian models), optimization algorithms (e.g., gradient-based,
EM-based), theoretical results, integration with symbolic systems, and
applications (control, speech recognition, time series analysis) related to
sequence processing tasks.

		             Sponsors

AI*IA 	(Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence)	
CNR	(Italian Scientific Research Council)
IEEE Neural Networks Council (Italian RIG)
IIASS 	(International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies)
SIREN	(Italian Neural Networks Society)
University of Salerno
University of Siena

                       General Information

This is the second Summer School dedicated to the memory of Prof. E.R.
Caianiello. Prof. M. Marinaro (Univ. of Salerno and IIASS) and Prof. M.
Jordan (MIT, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences) are the organizers and
advisors of this cycle of schools. The first school was organized last year
in Erice (Italy) on graphical models by M. Jordan and D. Heckerman.
  
People wishing to attend the school should send an e-mail to
Prof. Marco Gori (marco at mcculloch.ing.unifi.it) and then
send the written application to:

Prof. Maria Marinaro - IIASS "Eduardo R. Caianiello"
via Pellegrino, 19 - 84019 Vietri sul Mare (SA) Italy,
Tel: +39 89 761167 - Fax: +39 89 761189

They should specify:
1) date and place of birth together with present nationality;
2) degree and other academic qualifications;
3) present position and place work.

Young researchers with little experience should include a letter of
recommendation from the head of their research group or from a senior
scientist, active in the field.  The total fee, which includes full board
and lodging (arranged by the school), is $1000 US. Thanks to the generosity
of the sponsoring Institutions, partial support can be granted to some
deserving students who need financial help. Requests to this effect must be
specified and justified in the application letter. Closing date for
application: June 15th, 1997

More information can be found at http://www.ing.unisi.it/DII/research/neural/SUMMER_SCHOOL