Information Retrieval List Digest 091 (November 12, 1991) URL = http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/irld/irld-091 IRLIST Digest November 12, 1991 Volume VIII, Number 48 Issue 91 ********************************************************** I. NOTICES A. Meeting Announcements/Calls for Papers 1. Neural Networks Courses and Conference, Boston University, May 9-16, 1992 2. ACL-92, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, June 28 - July 2, 1992 B. Publications Announcements 1. SMART Version 10 Beta-Release ********************************************************** I. NOTICES I.A.1. Fr: announce@park.bu.edu Re: Neural Networks Courses and Conference, Boston, May 9-16, 1992 BOSTON UNIVERSITY NEURAL NETWORK COURSES AND CONFERENCE COURSE 1: INTRODUCTION AND FOUNDATIONS May 9 - 12, 1992 A systematic introductory course on neural networks. COURSE 2: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS May 12 - 14, 1992 Eight tutorials on current research and applications. CONFERENCE: NEURAL NETWORKS FOR LEARNING, RECOGNITION, AND CONTROL MAY 14 - 16, 1992 An international research conference presenting INVITED and CONTRIBUTED papers. Sponsored by Boston University's Wang Institute, Center for Adaptive Systems, and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, with partial support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. NEURAL NETWORK COURSES (May 9-14, 1992): This self-contained, systematic, five-day course is based on the graduate curriculum in the technology, computation, mathematics, and biology of neural networks developed at the Center for Adaptive Systems (CAS) and the Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems (CNS) at Boston University. This year's curriculum refines and updates the successful course held at the Wang Institute of Boston University in May 1990 and 1991. A new two-course format permits both beginners and researchers to participate. The course will be taught by CAS/CNS faculty, as well as by distinguished guest lecturers at the beautiful and superbly equipped campus of the Wang Institute. An extraordinary range and depth of models, methods, and applications will be presented. Interaction with the lecturers and other participants will continue at the daily discussion sessions, meals, receptions, and coffee breaks that are included with registration. At the 1990 and 1991 courses, participants came from many countries and from all parts of the United States. FOR FULL INFORMATION CALL (508) 649-9731 X255 COURSE 1 SCHEDULE SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1992 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. Registration 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Reception SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1992 Professor Grossberg: Historical Overview, Cooperation and Competition, Content Addressable Memory, and Associative Learning. Professors Carpenter and Mingolla: Neocognitron, Perceptrons, and Introduction to Back Propagation. Professor Grossberg and Mingolla: Adaptive Pattern Recognition. MONDAY, MAY 11, 1992 Professor Grossberg: Introduction to Adaptive Resonance Theory. Professor Carpenter: ART 1, ART 2, and ART 3. Professors Grossberg and Mingolla: Vision and Image Processing. Professors Bullock and Grossberg: Adaptive Sensory-Motor Control and Robotics TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992 Professor Bullock and Grossberg: Adaptive Sensory-Motor Control and Robotics, continued. Professor Grossberg: Speech Perception and Production, Reinforcement Learning and Prediction. End of Course 1 (12:30 P.M.) COURSE 2 SCHEDULE TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1992 11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Registration Professor Carpenter: Fuzzy Artmap. Dr. Waxman: Learning 3-D Objects from Temporal Sequences. WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1992 Professor Jordan: Recent Developments in Supervised Learning. Professor Waibel: Speech Recognition and Understanding. Professor Grossberg: Vision, Space, and Action. Professor Daugman: Signal Processing in Neural Networks. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1992 Professor Schwartz: Active Vision. Dr. Faggin: Practical Implementation of Neural Networks. End of Course 2 (12:30 P.M.) RESEARCH CONFERENCE NEURAL NETWORKS FOR LEARNING, RECOGNITION, AND CONTROL MAY 14-16, 1992 This international research conference on topics of fundamental importance in science and technology will bring together leading experts from universities, government, and industry to present their results on learning, recognition, and control, in invited lectures and contributed posters. Topics range from cognitive science and neurobiology through computational modeling to technological applications. CALL FOR PAPERS: A featured poster session on neural network research related to learning, recognition, and control will be held on May 15, 1992. Attendees who wish to present a poster should submit three copies of an abstract (one single-spaced page), postmarked by March 1, 1992, for refereeing. Include a cover letter giving the name, address, and telephone number of the corresponding author. Mail to: Poster Session, Neural Networks Conference, Wang Institute of Boston University, 72 Tyng Road, Tyngsboro, MA 01879. Authors will be informed of abstract acceptance by March 31, 1992. A book of lecture and poster abstracts will be given to attendees at the conference. CONFERENCE PROGRAM THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1992 2:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Registration 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. Reception Professor Richard Shiffrin, Indiana University: "The Relationship between Composition/Distribution and Forgetting" Professor Roger Ratcliff, Northwestern University: "Evaluating Memory Models" Professor David Rumelhart, Stanford University: "Learning and Generalization in a Connectionist Network" FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1992 Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, National Institute of Mental Health: "Two Cerebral Memory Systems" Professor Larry Squire, University of California, San Diego: "Brain Systems and the Structure of Memory" Professor Stephen Grossberg, Boston University, "Neural Dynamics of Adaptively Timed Learning and Memory" Professor Theodore Berger, University of Pittsburgh: "A Biological Neural Model for Learning and Memory" Professor Mark Bear, Brown University: "Mechanisms for Experience- Dependent Modification of Visual Cortex" Professor Gail Carpenter, Boston University: "Supervised Learning by Adaptive Resonance Networks" Dr. Allen Waxman, MIT Lincoln Laboratory: "Neural Networks for Mobile Robot Visual Navigation and Conditioning" Dr. Thomas Caudell, Boeing Company: "The Industrial Application of Neural Networks to Information Retrieval and Object Recognition at the Boeing Company" POSTER SESSION (Three hours) SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1992 Professor George Cybenko, University of Illinois: "The Impact of Memory Technology on Neurocomputing" Professor Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University: "Some Mathematical Results on Feedforward Nets: Recognition and Control" Professor Roger Brockett, Harvard University: "A General Framework for Learning via Steepest Descent" Professor Barry Peterson, Northwestern University Medical School: "Approaches to Modeling a Plastic Vestibulo-ocular Reflex" Professor Daniel Bullock, Boston University: "Spino-Cerebellar Cooperation for Skilled Movement Execution" Dr. James Albus, National Institute of Standards and Technology: "A System Architecture for Learning, Recognition, and Control" Professor Kumpati Narendra, Yale University: "Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Neural Networks" Dr. Robert Pap, Accurate Automation Company: "Neural Network Control of the NASA Space Shuttle Robot Arm" Discussion End of Research Conference (5:30 P.M.) ********** I.A.2. 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