Neural Information Processing Systems

Workshop Information

Useful information on altitude sickness. Thanks to Jennifer Linden.


Friday, Dec. 1:

Algorithms, technologies, and neural representations for neuroprosthetics and Neurorobotics
Simon F Giszter simon@swampthing.neurobio.mcphu.edu, Karen A Moxon Karen.moxon@drexel.edu

Computation in The Cortical Column (webpage)
Henry Markram neocortexweb@aol.com, Jennifer Linden linden@phy.ucsf.edu

Cross-Validation, Bootstrap, and Model Selection (webpage)
Rahul Sukthankar (CRL) rahuls@cs.cmu.edu, Larry Wasserman (CMU) larry@stat.cmu.edu

Data Fusion -- Theory and Applications (webpage)
Misha Pavel (OGI) pavel@ece.ogi.edu, Xubo Song (OGI) xubosong@ece.ogi.edu

Explorative analysis and data modeling in functional neuroimaging: Arriving at, not starting with a hypothesis? (webpage)
Andreas Wichert wichert@neuro.informatik.uni-ulm.de, Fritz Sommer

Geometric Methods in Learning Theory
Amir Assadi ahassadi@facstaff.wisc.edu

Information and Statistical Structure in Spike Trains (webpage) (2 days)
Jonathan D. Victor jdvicto@med.cornell.edu

New Perspectives in Kernel-Based Learning Methods (webpage)
Nello Cristianini nello@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk, John Shawe-Taylor, Bob Williamson

Software Support for Bayesian Analysis Systems (webpage)
Wray Buntine (Dynaptics) wray@dynaptics.com, Bernd Fischer (RIACS/NASA Ames), Johann Schumann (RIACS/NASA Ames) schumann@karg.arc.nasa.gov

Saturday, Dec. 2:

Affective Computing (webpage)
Javier R. Movellan (UCSD) movellan@markov.ucsd.edu, Marian Stewart Bartlett (UCSD), Gary W. Cottrell (UCSD), Rosalind W. Picard (MIT)

Data Mining and Learning on the Web (webpage)
Gary William Flake flake@research.nj.nec.com, Frans Coetzee coetzee@research.nj.nec.com, David Pennock dpennock@research.nj.nec.com

Information and Statistical Structure in Spike Trains (webpage) (2 days)
Jonathan D. Victor jdvicto@med.cornell.edu

Reinforcement Learning: Learn the Policy or Learn the Value-Function? (webpage)
Peter Bartlett (ANU) Peter.Bartlett@anu.edu.au, Jonathan Baxter (WhizBang!) jbaxter@whizbang.com, David McAllester (AT&T) dmac@research.att.com

Quantum Neural Computing (webpage)
Elizabeth Behrman behrman@WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU

Real-Time Modeling for Complex Learning Tasks (webpage) Contributions Solicited
Sethu Vijayakumar (USC/ERATO(JST)) sethu@rubens.usc.edu, Stefan Schaal (USC/ERATO(JST))

Representing the Structure of Visual Objects (webpage)
Nathan Intrator nin@math.tau.ac.il, Shimon Edelman edelman@eris.psych.cornell.edu

Using Unlabeled Data for Supervised Learning (webpage)
Stefan C. Kremer skremer@q.cis.uoguelph.ca, Kristin P Bennett bennek@rpi.edu, Deborah Stacey dastacey@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca


CANCELLED: Computational Molecular Biology

CANCELLED: Computational Neuropsychology (webpage)


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Alexander Gray
Carnegie Mellon University
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