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             Thursday June 11th
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8:30-8:55    Coffee & Donuts 
             Location: Connan
 
8:55         Opening
             Speaker:  Sebastian Thrun, Tom Mitchell
             Location: McConomy

9:00-9:45    Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Larry Wasserman
             Speaker:  Robert Tibshirani
             Location: McConomy

9:45-10:30   Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Tom Mitchell
             Speaker: Tom Dietterich
             Location: McConomy

10:30-11:00  Coffee break 
             Location: outside of Connan

11:00-12:30  Workshops:

             W1: Learning Causal Bayesian Networks 
             Location: Rangos 1
             Chairs:   Richard Scheines, Larry Wasserman
             Scribes:  Stella Salvatierra, Kary Myer

             W2: Mixed-Media Databases 
             Location: Rangos 2
             Chairs:   Shumeet Baluja, Christos Faloutsos
                       Alex Hauptmann, Michael Witbrock
             Scribes:  Sean Slattery

             W3: Machine Learning and Reinf' Learning for Manufacturing
             Location: Connan
             Chairs:   Sridhar Mahadevan, Andrew Moore
             Scribes:  Joseph O'Sullivan

             W4: Large-Scale Consumer Databases
             Location: Dowd
             Chairs:   Mike Meyer, Teddy Seidenfeld, Kannan Srinivasan
             Scribes:  Xu Fan


12:30-1:45   Lunch
             Location: Weigand Gymnasium, University Center

2:00-3:30    Workshops, continued
             Location and people: same as above

3:30-4:00    Break
             Location: outside of Rangos 1 & 2

4:00-5:25    Workshops, continued
             Location and people: same as above

5:30-6:15    Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Andrew Moore
             Speaker: Michael Jordan
             Location: McConomy


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             Friday June 12th
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8:30-9:00    Coffee & Donuts 
             Location: Connan
 

9:00-9:45    Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Teddy Seidenfeld
             Speaker:  Herb Simon
             Location: McConomy


9:45-10:30   Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Bill Eddy
             Speaker: Daryl Pregibon
             Location: McConomy


10:30-11:00  Coffee break 
             Location: outside of Connan

11:00-12:30  Workshops:

             W5: Visual Methods for the Study of Massive Data Sets
             Location: Connan
             Chairs:   Bill Eddy, Steve Eick
             Invited speakers: 
             Scribes:  Ashish Sanil

             W6: Learning from Text and the Web
             Location: Rangos 1
             Chairs:   Yiming Yang, Jaime Carbonell, 
                       Steve Fienberg, Tom Mitchell
             Invited speakers: 
             Scribes:  Mark Craven

             W7: Robot Exploration and Learning
             Location: Rangos 2
             Chairs:   Howie Choset, Maja Mataric, Sebastian Thrun
             Invited speakers: 
             Scribes:  Nick Roy, Wes Huang


12:30-1:45   Lunch
             Location: Weigand Gymnasium, University Center

2:00-3:30    Workshops, continued
             Location and people: same as above

3:30-4:00    Break
             Location: outside of Rangos 1 & 2

4:00-5:30    Workshops, continued
             Location and people: same as above


5:30-6:40    (free)

6:40-10:45   River Cruise and dinner
             6:40: departure, transportation in busses
                   locations: (1) University Center, next to Forbes
                              (2) Holiday Inn, Lytton Ave, phone 682-6200
             7:00-7:30:  boarding, Station Square, Gateway Clipper Fleet, 
                         phone 355-7969
             7:30-10:30: river cruise, includes dinner
             10:30: docking and transportation back to Oakland


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             Saturday June 13th
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8:30-9:00    Coffee & Donuts 
             Location: Connan
 

9:00-9:45    Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Steve Fienberg
             Speaker:  Stuart Geman
             Location: McConomy

9:45-10:30   Plenary Session I: Thesis topics and beyond
             Location: McConomy
             Moderator: Tom Mitchell
             Speakers: 
             for W1: Two of the following: 
                          Richard Scheines
                          Larry Wasserman
                          Stella Salvatierra
                          Kary Myer
             for W2: Two of the following: 
                          Shumeet Baluja
                          Christos Faloutsos
                          Alex Hauptmann
                          Michael Witbrock
                          Sean Slattery
             for W3: Two of the following: 
                          Sridhar Mahadevan
                          Andrew Moore
                          Joseph O'Sullivan
             for W4: Two of the following: 
                          Mike Meyer
                          Teddy Seidenfeld
                          Kannan Srinivasan
                          Xu Fan

10:30-11:00  Coffee break 
             Location: inside Connan

11:00-11:45  Plenary Session II: Thesis topics and beyond
             Location: McConomy
             Moderator: Sebastian Thrun
             Speakers (tentative): 
             for W5: Two of the following: 
                          Bill Eddy
                          Steve Eick
                          Ashish Sanil
             for W6: Two of the following:
                          Yiming Yang
                          Jaime Carbonell
                          Steve Fienberg
                          Tom Mitchell
                          Mark Craven
             for W7: Two of the following:
                          Howie Choset
                          Maja Mataric
                          Sebastian Thrun
                          Nick Roy
                          Wes Huang


11:45-12:30  Plenary Talk
             Introduction of speaker: Richard Scheines
             Speaker: David Heckerman
             Location: McConomy

12:30-12:45  Closing Remarks
             Speaker:  Sebastian Thrun
             Location: McConomy


1:00-9:00    Post Conference Tour
             Organizers: Belinda Thom, Stella Salvatierra, Will Uther and TBA
             Note: registration required, transportation will cost around $12
                   purchase tickets at CONALD registration desk, space limited
             1:00 departure, University Center, Forbes Ave.
             1:30-3:00 visit of Pittsburgh's famous "Strip District" (shopping)
             3:00 meet at History Center (where people got dropped off)
             3:00-5:00 guided tour through the History Center
             5:00-7:30 dinner (location TBA, might be Kaya)
             7:30-9:00 bus trip through the world's most beautiful city
             

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