NIPS*2001 web-site back online

[Richard Zemel]

The NIPS*2001 web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS) has been
down for a few days but the problem has now been fixed.  Apologies and 
thanks to the people who notified us about this.

On the positive side: we've had nearly 30 percent more submissions than
last year, so it should be an even better conference than ever.

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         Neural Information Processing Systems
              Natural and Synthetic
        Monday,  Dec. 3 -- Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001
          Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
               Whistler Ski Resort
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Invited speakers:
  Barbara Finlay -- How brains evolve, and the consequences for 
     computation
  Alison Gopnik -- Babies and Bayes-nets: Causal inference and
     theory-formation in children, chimps, scientists and computers 
  Jon M. Kleinberg -- Decentralized network algorithms: Small-world
     phenomena and the dynamics of information 
  Tom Knight -- TBA
  Judea Pearl -- Causal inference as an exercise in computational 
     learning
  Shihab Shamma -- Common principles in auditory and visual processing

Tutorials:
  Luc Devroye -- Nonparametric density estimation: VC to the rescue
  Daphne Koller & Nir Friedman -- Learning Bayesian networks from data
  Shawn Lockery -- Chemotaxis: Gradient ascent by simple living 
     organisms and their neural networks. 
  Christopher Manning -- Probabilistic linguistics and probabilistic 
     models of natural language processing 
  Bernhard Scholkopf -- SVM and Kernel methods
  Sebastian Thrun -- Probabilistic robotics