Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery

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          CONFERENCE ON AUTOMATED LEARNING AND DISCOVERY

                        June 11-13, 1998 
          at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA


The Conference on Automated Learning and Discovery will bring together
leading researchers from various scientific disciplines concerned with
learning from data. It will cover scientific research at the
intersection of statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence,
databases, social sciences and language technologies.  The goal of
this meeting is to explore new, unified research directions in this
cross-disciplinary field.

The conference features eight one-day cross-disciplinary workshops,
interleaved with seven invited plenary talks by renowned
statisticians, computer scientists, and cognitive scientists.  The
workshops will address issues such as: what is the state of the art,
what can we do and what is missing? what are promising research
directions?  what are the most promising opportunities for
cross-disciplinary research?


___Plenary speakers________________________________________________

        * Tom Dietterich
        * Stuart Geman
        * David Heckerman
        * Michael Jordan
        * Daryl Pregibon
        * Herb Simon
        * Robert Tibshirani


___Workshops_______________________________________________________

        * Visual Methods for the Study of Massive Data Sets
                organized by Bill Eddy and Steve Eick
        * Learning Causal Bayesian Networks
                organized by Richard Scheines and Larry Wasserman
        * Discovery in Natural and Social Science
                organized by Raul Valdes-Perez
        * Mixed-Media Databases
                organized by Shumeet Baluja, Christos Faloutsos, 
                Alex Hauptmann and Michael Witbrock
        * Learning from Text and the Web
                organized by Jaime Carbonell, Steve Fienberg,
                Tom Mitchell and Yi-Ming Yang
        * Robot Exploration and Learning
                organized by Howie Choset, Maja Mataric
                and Sebastian Thrun
        * Machine Learning and Reinforcement Learning for 
                Manufacturing
                organized by Sridhar Mahadevan and Andrew Moore
        * Large-Scale Consumer Databases
                organized by Mike Meyer, Teddy Seidenfeld
                and Kannan Srinivasan


___Deadline_for_paper_submissions__________________________________

        * February 15, 1998


___More_information________________________________________________

        * Web:     http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conald
        * E-mail:  conald at cs.cmu.edu

For submission instructions, consult our Web page or contact the
organizers of the specific workshop.  A limited number of travel
stipends will be available. The conference will be sponsored by CMU's
newly created Center for Automated Learning and Discovery.