Vancouver, Canada, December 9-14
You are invited to participate in the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, which is the premier scientific meeting on neural computation. The Conference is extraordinarily interdisciplinary, with contributions from many intellectual communities united by an interest in the study of artificial and natural neural information processing. Interdisciplinary interactions are encouraged by having a single track of presentations and high-quality poster sessions. Presentation topics include learning algorithms and architectures, learning theory, neuroscience, cognitive science, vision, speech and signal processing, reinforcement learning and control, implementations,and diverse applications. All papers have been rigorously reviewed (with a 30% acceptance rate). The Conference is preceeded by one day of tutorials and is followed by two days of workshop sessions in nearby Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
Note that NIPS provides its PAPERS ONLINE.
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| Papers and Past |
| Program |
| Tutorials |
| Invited Talks |
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| Invitation Letters |
| Volunteering |
Where is Information on...|
| Online registration? here. |
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| Conference proceedings? here. |
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| Proceedings on CD-ROM? here. |
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| Poster formats? here. |
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| Skiing discounts? here. |
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| Driving directions? here. |
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| Organizers of NIPS? here. |
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| Call for papers/proposals (now past)? here. |
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| NIPS*2001 conference? here. |
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| Online NIPS papers? here. |
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| NIPS conferences of previous years? here. |
Important Dates|
| Tutorials: Dec 9, 2002 |
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| Conference: Dec 10, 11, 12 (until noon), 2002 |
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| Workshops: Dec 12 (evening reception), 13, 14, 2002 |
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| Poster presentations: Dec 10, 11, 2002 |
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| Demonstrations: Dec 10, 11, 2002 |
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| Camera-ready papers due: January 10, 2003 |
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| Proceedings available online: March 2003 |
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| Proceedings volumes mailed: June 2003 |
Conference FormatThe new Demonstrations component of the Conference program will enable researchers to highlight scientific advances, systems, and technologies in ways that go beyond conventional poster presentations. It will provide a unique forum for demonstrating advanced technologies both hardware and software and fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. The Tutorial Program provides a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics span a wide range of subjects including neuroscience, learning algorithms and theory, bioinformatics, image processing and data mining. The Workshop Program will include 15 workshops covering a wide range of topics from neuroscience to machine learning. The workshop schedule allows time for informal discussions, skiing and other winter sports. Click for the NIPS brochure [pdf].
Organization| Organizing Committee | |
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| Sue Becker, McMaster University |
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| Sebastian Thrun, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tutorials Chair: | |
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| Lawrence Saul, University of Pennsylvania |
| Workshops Co-Chairs: | |
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| Barak Pearlmutter, University of New Mexico |
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| Robert Jacobs, Rochester University |
| Publications Chair: | |
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| Klaus Obermayer, TU Berlin |
| Demonstrations Co-Chairs: | |
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| Shihab Shamma, University of Maryland |
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| Shih-Chii Liu, University of Zurich and EZH, Zurich |
| Publicity Chair: | |
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| Zoubin Ghahramani, University College London |
| Volunteers Director: | |
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| Rajesh Rao, University of Washington |
| Contracts: | |
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| Steve Hanson, Rutgers University |
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| Sebastian Thrun (chair), Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Peter Bartlett, BIOwulf Technologies |
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| Gert Cauwenberghs, Johns Hopkins University |
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| Geoffrey Gordon, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Daniel Lee, University of Pennsylvania |
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| Marina Meila, University of Washington |
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| Klaus-Robert Mueller, Fraunhofer FIRST |
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| Andrew Y. Ng, University of California, Berkeley |
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| John Platt, Microsoft Research |
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| Sam Roweis, University of Toronto |
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| Eero Simoncelli, New York University |
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| Joshua Tenenbaum, MIT |
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| Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh |
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| Richard Zemel, University of Toronto |
| Webmasters | |
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| Alexander Gray, Carnegie Mellon University |
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| Guy Lebanon, Carnegie Mellon University |
| NIPS Foundation | |
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Conference Invited Speakers
Click for abstracts and bios.
Hugh Durrant-Whyte, University of Sydney: Information in Sensor Networks
Paul Glimcher, New York University: Decisions, Uncertainty and the Brain: Neuroeconomics
Deborah Gordon, Stanford University: Ants at Work
David Heeger, New York University: Neural Basis of Visual Pattern Discrimination
Andrew W. Moore, Carnegie Mellon University: Statistical Data Mining
Pietro Perona, Caltech: The Emergence of Visual Categories - A Computational Perspective
Tutorial Topics
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Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania: Computational Game Theory
Sebastian Seung, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and MIT: Neural Integrators
Yair Weiss, Hebrew University, Jianbo Shi, Carnegie Mellon University, and Serge Belongie, UC San Diego: Eigenvector Methods for Clustering and Image Segmentation
Richard M. Karp, UC Berkeley and International Computer Science Institute: Mathematical, Statistical and Algorithmic Challenges from Genomics and Molecular Biology
Martin Cooke, University of Sheffield: Computational Auditory Scene Analysis in Listeners and Machines
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, William Cohen, Carnegie Mellon University: Information Extraction from the World Wide Web
Tutorials and Conference Schedule
Click for the full presentations program.
Monday, Dec. 9
| 8:00am - 6:00pm |
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Registration |
| 9:30am - 5:30pm |
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Tutorials |
| 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
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Conference Banquet |
Tuesday, Dec. 10 and Wednesday, Dec. 11
| 8:00am - 6:00pm |
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Registration |
| 8:30am - 12:00pm |
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Sessions |
| 2:00pm - 5:30pm |
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Sessions |
| 1:00pm - 6:00pm |
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Poster Setup and Preview |
| 7:30pm - 10:30pm |
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Poster Session and Demonstration Sessions |
Thursday, Dec. 12
| 8:30am - 12:00pm |
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Sessions |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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Buses Depart for Workshops |
Workshops Summary
The workshops will be held at the Westin Resort & Spa in Whistler. Individual workshop links will appear as the organizers make them available. If you are attending the workshops, please help our planning by completing a brief workshop preferences survey.
Propagation Algorithms on Graphs with Cycles: Theory and Applications (2 day) Shiro Ikeda, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Max Welling
Computational Neuroimaging: Foundations, Concepts & Methods (2 day) S. Hanson, B. Pearlmutter, S. Strother, L. Hansen, B. Martin-Bly
Multi-Agent Learning: Theory and Practice (2 day) Gerald Tesauro, Michael L. Littman
Independent Component Analysis and Beyond Stefan Harmeling, Luis B. Almeida, Erkki Oja, Dinh-Tuan Pham
Learning of Invariant Representations Konrad Paul Kording, Bruno A. Olshausen
Quantum Neural Computing Elizabeth C. Behrman, James E. Steck
Spectral Methods in Dimensionality Reduction, Clustering, and Classification Josh Tenenbaum, Sam T. Roweis
Universal Learning Algorithms and Optimal Search Juergen Schmidhuber, Marcus Hutter
On Learning Kernels Nello Cristianini, Tommi Jaakkola, Michael Jordan, Gert Lanckriet
Negative Results and Open Problems Isabelle Guyon
Neuromorphic Engineering in the Commercial World Timothy Horiuchi, Giacomo Indiveri, Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Beyond Classification and Regression: Learning Rankings, Preferences, Equality Predicates, and Other Structures Rich Caruana, Thorsten Joachims
Statistical Methods for Computational Experiments in Visual Processing and Computer Vision Ross Beveridge, Bruce Draper, Geof Givens, Ross J. Micheals, Jonathon Phillips
Unreal Data: Principles of Modeling Nonvectorial Data Alex Smola, Gunnar Raetsch, Zoubin Ghahramani
Machine Learning Techniques for Bioinformatics Colin Campbell, Phil Long
The Role of Adaptation/Plasticity in Neuronal Coding Garrett B. Stanley
Thalamocortical Processing in Audition and Vision Shihab A. Shamma, Anthony M. Zador
Workshops Schedule
More detailed workshop schedule coming soon.
Thursday, Dec. 12
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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Welcoming Reception and Registration |
Friday, Dec. 13
| 7:00am - 11:00am |
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Registration |
| 7:30am - 10:30am |
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Workshop Sessions |
| 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
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Workshop Sessions |
Saturday, Dec. 14
| 7:30am - 10:30am |
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Workshop Sessions |
| 4:00pm - 7:00pm |
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Workshop Sessions |
| 7:30pm - 10:30pm |
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Banquet and Wrap-up |
About this Webpage
For issues regarding page design and content, contact Alexander Gray For issues regarding forms, scripts and server operation, contact Guy Lebanon.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Doug Baker of Eizel Technologies, long-time former NIPS webmaster, for help in writing the NIPS travel grant script, to Dana Dahlstrom of UCSD for creating updated versions of the NIPS formatting files, and to Leemon Baird of the Air Command and Staff College, for creating the original .rtf file. Lucifer yellow stain of the LGMD neuron (top left) courtesy of Drs. Krapp, Gabbiani, Koch, and Laurent.