Following the regular program of the Neural Information Processing Systems 1995 conference, workshops on current topics in neural information processing will be held on December 1 and 2, 1995, in Vail, Colorado. Proposals by qualified individuals interested in chairing one of these workshops are solicited. Past topics have included: active learning and control, architectural issues, attention, bayesian analysis, benchmarking neural network applications, computational complexity issues, computational neuroscience, fast training techniques, genetic algorithms, music, neural network dynamics, optimization, recurrent nets, rules and connectionist models, self-organization, sensory biophysics, speech, time series prediction, vision and audition, implementations, and grammars.
The goal of the workshops is to provide an informal forum for researchers to discuss important issues of current interest. Sessions will meet in the morning and in the afternoon of both days, with free time in between for ongoing individual exchange or outdoor activities. Concrete open and/or controversial issues are encouraged and preferred as workshop topics. Representation of alternative viewpoints and panel-style discussions are particularly encouraged. Individuals proposing to chair a workshop will have responsibilities including: 1) arranging short informal presentations by experts working on the topic, 2) moderating or leading the discussion and reporting its high points, findings, and conclusions to the group during evening plenary sessions (the ``gong show''), and 3) writing a brief summary.
Submission Procedure: Interested parties should submit a short proposal for a workshop of interest postmarked by May 20, 1995. (Express mail is not necessary. Submissions by electronic mail will also be accepted.) Proposals should include a title, a description of what the workshop is to address and accomplish, the proposed length of the workshop (one day or two days), and the planned format. It should motivate why the topic is of interest or controversial, why it should be discussed and what the targeted group of participants is. In addition, please send a brief resume of the prospective workshop chair, a list of publications and evidence of scholarship in the field of interest. Submissions should include contact name, address, email address, phone number and fax number if available.
Mail proposals to:
Michael P. Perrone
NIPS*95 Workshops Chair
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
(email: mpp@watson.ibm.com)
PROPOSALS MUST BE POSTMARKED BY MAY 20, 1995
cohn@psyche.mit.edu