Neural Information Processing Systems
1999

About NIPS

This is the thirteenth meeting of an interdisciplinary conference which brings together cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, physicists, and mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural processing and computation. The conference will include invited talks and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The conference is single track and is highly selective. Preceding the main session, there will be one day of tutorial presentations, and following it there will be two days of focused workshops on topical issues at a nearby ski area.

New

• Authors! Camera-ready papers, seven pages long, are due on January 4, 2000. Please read carefully and follow in detail the publication instructions. One author per paper must sign and return the letter of agreement, which authorizes MIT Press to include the paper in the Proceedings.
  
  See the section Formatting Instructions below for details.

Of Note

• The full program book is now available. (120 Pages, gzip'd postscript, 290326 bytes)
• The abstracts of papers that will be presented are available on-line.
• Travel Grant decisions have been made. If you applied for one, you should have received notification already.

Programs and Schedules

Schedule Overview: November 29 - December 4, 1999
Tutorials: November 29 (M), 1999
Main Conference: November 30 to December 2 (T-Th), 1999

Invited Speakers
Program
Abstracts
Workshops: December 2-4 (Th-S), 1999


Full Program Book (120 Pages, gzip'd postscript, 290326 bytes)


Hotel accommodations

Discount rates are available until the beginning of November.
Car Rental

Discount Rates are available from the week before to the week after the conference.
Volunteer Work
Travel Directions and Travel Grants

• The conference and tutorials will be held in the Marriott City Center Hotel in Denver, CO. The accommodations page has all the details.
• The workshops will be held in Breckenridge, CO, at both the Beaver Run Resort and at the Great Divide Lodge. Breckenridge is approximately 70 miles west of Denver and offers fine early season skiing and many excellent restaurants, shops, and galleries. The accommodations page has all the details.
  
• For those of you wishing to rent a car to drive to Breckenridge, or for any other part of your stay during NIPS, Avis Rent a Car has provided us with group rate pricing. If you would like to drive to Breckenridge, you can arrange to pick up a car in Denver and drop it off at the airport. Special weekend rates are in effect that are extremely reasonable. See the Car Rental page for details.
• Some of the exhibitors at NIPS have given us pointers to their web pages. These have been collected on the exhibitors' page. NIPS*99 Information for Exhibitors is also available there.
• Call for Papers (Postscript and Text)
• Call for Workshop Proposals (Postscript and Text)
• Links to on-line version of 1998 papers are now available. See the list of NIPS*98 abstracts.
• The NIPS Board, Organizing Committee, and Program Committee are listed here.

Presentation Formatting Information

• Oral presentations should be 15 minutes long. We then allow 5 minutes for questions.
• The poster boards are 4 feet x 8 feet in size. Posters should be designed accordingly. Use a font large enough to see from 4 or 5 feet away.
• Spotlight poster presentations are 3 minutes long. To streamline and further improve the spotlight presentations, we are going to request that spotlight presenters make their materials available in advance.  Barak Pearlmutter will contact the spotlight presenters with details.

NIPS Bibliography

• Members of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Vienna have collected references for all papers in NIPS volumes 3 through 10 in a bibtex formatted bibliography. This may be useful for anyone who wants to reference NIPS papers.

  The entire CI BibTeX collection, which also includes bibtex files for a number of journals and books, can be found at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/docs/ci/bibtex_collection.html or via ftp at ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/texmf/bibtex/.

Thanks to Leemon Baird for creating the original .rtf style file.

Proceedings

For additional copies write to MIT Press, Five Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142-1493, send e-mail to mitpress-orders@mit.edu, or call 1-800-356-0343.

Camera-ready papers, seven pages long, are due on January 4, 2000. Contributing authors: please read carefully and follow in detail the publication instructions. One author per paper must sign and return the letter of agreement, which authorizes MIT Press to include the paper in the Proceedings.

Web pages for past NIPS conferences *

NIPS*98

• NIPS 11 is available from the MIT Press.
• Abstracts from the papers in this volume are available on-line. Links to on-line versions of some papers are also available.

NIPS*97

• NIPS 10 is available from MIT Press.
• Abstracts from the papers in this volume are available on-line. Links to on-line versions of some papers are also available.

The pages for NIPS*94 - NIPS*96 have been temporarily removed. Please contact the webmaster if you need to access this information.

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