Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:31:13 +0100 (MET)
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 14:31:13 +0100 (MET) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: [ifets] THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
Dear IFETS Forum Members,
How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence?
***** CALL FOR ABSTRACTS ***** and ***** FINAL INVITED PROGRAM *****
Contributed abstracts must be received by January 29, 1999
for the THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
Tutorials: May 26, 1999
Meeting: May 27-29, 1999
Boston University
677 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/
Sponsored by Boston University's
Center for Adaptive Systems
and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
with financial support from DARPA and ONR
How Does the Brain Control Behavior?
How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence?
The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and
contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and
technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a
changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of
computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science,
artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial
intelligence.
A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be
highly visible.
Abstract submissions encourage submissions of the latest results.
Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of
meeting handouts and social events.
SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION ABOUT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND THE
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM.
SEE THE WEB SITE FOR HOTEL AND OTHER CONFERENCE INFORMATION.
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
TUTORIALS: Wednesday, May 26, 1999:
Stephen Grossberg, Development, learning, attention, and grouping
by the laminar circuits of visual cortex
Daniel Schacter, True memories, false memories:
A cognitive neuroscience perspective
Gail Carpenter, Adaptive resonance theory and practice
Tomaso Poggio, Supervised learning: Regularization and
support vector machines
Each tutorial is 90 minutes long.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Thursday, May 27 and Saturday, May 29, 1999:
Rodney Brooks, Learning through social interaction:
Robot implementations
Shinsuke Shimojo, Visual surface filling-in assessed by
psychophysics and TMS (Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
INVITED SPEAKERS
Thursday, May 27, 1999:
Joseph LeDoux, Learning about danger: Systems and synapses
Joaquin Fuster, The frontal lobe in temporal aspects of cognition
John Lisman, The role of theta-gamma oscillations in memory processes
Michael Hasselmo, Neuromodulation and cortical memory function:
Physiology and computational modeling
Dario Floreano, Evolutionary cybernetics: Exploring the foundations
of adaptive intelligence in biomimetic robots
Paolo Gaudiano, Visually guided navigation with
autonomous mobile robots
Friday, May 28, 1999:
Shihab Shamma, Encoding of timbre in the auditory system
Nobuo Suga, Adjustment and improvement of auditory signal
processing by the corticofugal feedback system
Stephen Grossberg, Neural models of auditory and speech perception
Steven Greenberg, From sound to meaning: A syllable-centric
perspective on spoken language
Larry Gillick, The state of large vocabulary continuous
speech recognition
Andreas Andreou, Neuromorphic VLSI microsystems for speech
and vision processing
Saturday, May 29, 1999:
Charles Gilbert, Adult cortical dynamics
David van Essen, Mapping and modeling of cortical structure
and function
Randolph Blake, What can be perceived in the absence of
visual awareness?
Steven Zucker, Complexity, confusion and computational vision
Ennio Mingolla, Cortical computation for attentive visual
navigation: Heading, time-to-contact, and pursuit movements
Richard Shiffrin, A model for implicit and explicit memory
There will be contributed oral and poster sessions on each day
of the conference.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Session Topics:
* vision * spatial mapping and navigation
* object recognition * neural circuit models
* image understanding * neural system models
* audition * mathematics of neural systems
* speech and language * robotics
* unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital)
* supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI
* reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications
* sensory-motor control * other
* cognition, planning, and
attention
Contributed Abstracts must be received, in English, by January 29,
1999. Notification of acceptance will be given by February 28, 1999.
A meeting registration fee of $45 for regular attendees and $30 for
students must accompany each Abstract. See Registration Information
for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted
for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration
fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until
April 15, 1999.
Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins
on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or
similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page
only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author
name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin
each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title
of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address,
telephone, fax, and email address; and a first and second choice from
among the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or
technological (T) work. Example: first choice: vision (T); second
choice: neural system models (B). (Talks will be 15 minutes
long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR
facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet
these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will
be returned. Accepted Abstracts will be printed in the conference
proceedings volume. No longer paper will be required. The original and
3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Cynthia Bradford, Boston
University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon
Street, Boston, MA 02215.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended. To
register, please fill out the registration form below. Student
registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a
department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by
an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to the address above. If
paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or
email to email to cindy@cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a
reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings.
STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral
fellows are available to cover meeting travel and living costs. The
deadline to apply for fellowship support is January 29, 1999. Applicants
will be notified by February 28, 1999. Each application should include
the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address;
current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address,
and email address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a
list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor
on official institutional stationery should accompany the application and
summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Students who also
submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee with their
Abstract. Reimbursement checks will be distributed after the meeting.
REGISTRATION FORM
Third International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Boston University
677 Beacon Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Tutorials: May 26, 1999
Meeting: May 27-29, 1999
FAX: (617) 353-7755
http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/
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reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings.
The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two
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