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Neuron Digest   Thursday, 15 Apr 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 24

Today's Topics:
                     IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Call For Papers


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Subject: IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Call For Papers
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Thu, 25 Mar 93 00:15:44 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: Be aware of the 30 April deadline for manuscript
submissions. I wonder if the Yen will be at parity with the U.S. penny by
October (i.e., 100 yen == US$1)? -PM ]]

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                   CALL FOR PAPERS (Second Version)
                       IJCNN'93-NAGOYA, JAPAN
         INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS
                    NAGOYA CONGRESS CENTER, JAPAN
                        OCTOBER 25-29,1993

IJCNN'93-NAGOYA co-sponsored by the Japanese Neural Network Society
(JNNS), the IEEE Neural Networks Council (NNC), the International
Neural Network Society (INNS), the European Neural Network Society
(ENNS), the Society of Instrument and Control Engineers (SICE, Japan),
the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers
(IEICE, Japan), the Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute, the
Aichi Prefectural Government and the Nagoya Municipal Government
cordially invite interested authors to submit papers in the field of
neural networks for presentation at the Conference. Nagoya is a
historical city famous for Nagoya Castle and is located in the central
major industrial area of Japan. There is frequent direct air service
from most countries.  Nagoya is 2 hours away from Tokyo or 1 hour from
Osaka by bullet train.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
                    AM                  PM              Evening
'93.10.25(Mon.) Registration        Registration
                   Tutorial           Tutorial
    10.26(Tue.) Opening Ceremony    Industry Forum      Reception
    10.27(Wed.)             Technical Sessions
                               (Oral,Poster)
    10.28(Thu.)             Technical Sessions          Banquet
                               (Oral,Poster)
    10.29(Fri.)        Technical Sessions    Closing
                           (Oral,Poster)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

David E. Rumelhart,   Methods for Improving Generalization in Connectionist
                        Networks
Shun-ichi Amari,      Brain and Computer - A Perspective

PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Rodney Brooks,        (TBD)
Edmund T. Rolls,      Neural Networks in the Hippocampus and Cerebral Cortex
                        Involved in Memory
Kunihiko Fukushima,   Improved Generalization Ability Using Constrained Neural
                        Network Architectures

INVITED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

Keiji Tanaka,         Neural Mechanisms of Visual Recognition
Tomaso Poggio,        Visual Learning: From Object Recognition to Computer
 Graphics
Mitsuo Kawato,        Inverse Dynamics Model in the Cerebellum
Teuvo Kohonen,        Generalization of the Self-Organizing Map
Michael I. Jordan,    Learning in Hierarchial Networks
Rolf Eckmiller,       Information Processing in Biology-inspired Pluse Coded
                        Neural Networks
Shigenobu Kobayashi,  Hybrid Systems of Natural and artificial Intelligence
Kazuo Kyuma,          Optical Neural Networks / Optical Neurodevices

TECHNICAL SESSIONS:

Papers may be submitted for consideration as oral or poster
presentations in the following areas:

Neurobiological Systems         Self-organization
Cognitive Science               Learning & Memory
Image Processing & Vision       Robotics & Control
Speech, Hearing & Language      Hybrid Systems (Fuzzy, Genetic, Expert Systems,
 AI)
Sensorimotor Systems            Implementation (Electronic, Optical, Bio-chips)
Neural Network Architectures    Other Applications(Medical and Social Systems,
Network Dynamics                  Art, Economy, etc.
Optimization                      Please specify the area of the application)

Four(4) page papers MUST be received by April 30, 1993.  Papers received
after that date will be returned unopened. International authors should
submit their work via Air Mail or Express Courier so as to ensure timely
arrival. All submissions will be acknowledged by mail.  Papers will be
reviewed by senior researchers in the field, and all authors will be
informed of the decisions at the end of the review process by June 30,
1993. A limited number of papers will be accepted for oral and poster
presentations. No poster sessions are scheduled in parallel with oral
sessions. All accepted papers will be published as submitted in the
conference proceedings, which should be available at the conference for
distribution to all regular conference registrants.

Please submit six(6) copies (one camera-ready original and five copies)
of the paper. Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready copy. The
four page papers, including figures, tables, and references, should be
written in English. The paper submitted over four pages will be charged
30,000 YEN per extra page.  Papers should be submitted on 210mm x 297mm
(A4) or 8-1/2" x 11" (letter size) white paper with one inch margins on
all four sides (actual space to be allowed to type is 165mm (W) x 228mm
(H) or 6-1/2" x 9"). They should be prepared by typewriter or
letter-quality printer in one or two-column format, single-spaced, in
Times or similar font of 10 points or larger, and printed on one side of
the page only.  Please be sure that all text, figures, captions, and
references are clean, sharp, readable, and of high contrast. Fax
submission are not acceptable.

Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete title,
author(s), affiliation(s), and mailing address(es), followed by a blank
space and then an abstract, not to exceed 15 lines, followed by the text.
In an accompanying letter, the following should be included.  Send papers
to: IJCNN'93- NAGOYA Secretariat.

Full Title of the Paper                 Presentation Preferred
                                               Oral or Poster
Corresponding Author                    Presenter*
       Name, Mailing address                   Name, Mailing address
       Telephone and FAX numbers               Telephone and FAX numbers
       E-mail address                          E-mail address
       Technical Session                       Audio Visual Requirements
       1st and 2nd choices                     e.g., 35mm Slide, OHP, VCR

        * Students who wish to apply for the Student Award, please
        specify and enclose a verification letter of status from the
        Department head.

TUTORIALS INCLUDE:

Prof. Edmund T. Rolls (TBD)
Prof. H.-N. L. Teodorescu (TBD)
Prof. Haim Sompolinsky (TBD)

==============================
Models for the development on the visual system

Professor Michael P. Stryker
University of California
==============================
Optical Neural Networks

Demetri Psaltis,
California Institute of Technology
=============================
Self-Organizing  Neural Architectures for Adaptive  Sensory-Motor
Control

Stephen Grossberg,
Boston University

=============================
Biology-Inspired Image Preprocessing:the How and the Why

Gart Hauske,
Technischen Universitat Munchen
=============================
Possible Roles of Stimulus-dominated and
Cortex Dominated Synchronizations in the Visual Cortex

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Eckhorn
Philipps University Marburg
=============================
Genetic Algorithm

Kenneth De Jong
George Mason University
=============================
Networks of Behavior Based Robots

Prof. Rodony Brooks
AI Labo, MIT
=============================
Pattern and Speech Recognition by Discriminative Methods

B.H. Juang,
AT&T Bell Labs.
=============================
Developments of modular learning systems

Michael I. Jordan
MIT
=============================
VLSI Implementation of Neural Networks

Federico Faggin
Synaptics, Inc.
=============================
Time Series Prediction and Analysis

Dr. Andreas Weigend
Palo Alto Research Center
=============================
The chaotic dynamics of large networks,

R.S.MacKay
University of Warwick,
=============================
Synaptic coding of spike trains

Jose Pedro Segundo
University of California,
=============================
NEURAL NETWORK BASICS:  APPLICATIONS, EXAMPLES AND STANDARDS

Mary Lou Padgett
Auburn University
=============================
Analog Neural Networks - Techniques, Circuits and Learning -

Alan F. Murray
University of Edinburgh,
=============================
Methods to adapt neural or fuzzy networks for control.

Paul J. Werbos
National Science Foundation
=============================
Pattern Recognition with Fuzzy Sets and Neural Nets

James C. Bezdek,
U. of W. Florida,
=============================
Learning, Approximation, and Networks

Tomaso Poggio and Federico Girosi

Tutorials for IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be held on Monday, October 25,
1993.  Each tutorial will be three hours long. The tutorials should
be designed as such and not as expanded talks. They should lead the
student at the college Senior level through a pedagogically
understandable development of the subject matter.  Experts in neural
networks and related fields are encouraged to submit proposed topics
for tutorials.

INDUSTRY FORUM INCLUDE:

Guido J. Deboeck
Robert Heckt-Nielsen
Toshirou Fujiwara
Tsuneharu Nitta

A major industry forum will be held in the afternoon on Tuesday,
October 26, 1993.  Speakers will include representatives from
industry, government, and academia.  The aim of the forum is to permit
attendees to understand more fully possible industrial applications of
neural networks, discuss problems that have arisen in industrial
applications, and to delineate new areas of research and development
of neural network applications.


EXHIBIT INFORMATION:

Exhibitors are encouraged to present the latest innovations in neural
networks, including electronic and optical neuro computers, fuzzy
neural networks, neural network VLSI chips and development systems,
neural network design and simulation tools, software systems, and
application demonstration systems. A large group of vendors and
participants from academia, industry and government are expected.  We
believe that the IJCNN'93-NAGOYA will be the neural network largest
conference and trade-show in Japan, in which to exhibit your products.
Potential exhibitors should plan to sign up before April 30, 1993 for
exhibit booths since exhibit space is limited. Vendors may contact the
IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat.


COMMITTEES & CHAIRS:

Advisory Chair:      Fumio Harashima, University of Tokyo
Vice-cochairs:       Russell Eberhart (IEEE NNC), Research Triangle Institute
                     Paul Werbos (INNS), National Science Foundation
                     Teuvo Kohonen (ENNS), Helsinki University of Technology
Organizing Chair:    Shun-ichi Amari, University of Tokyo
Program Chair:       Kunihiko Fukushima, Osaka University
        Cochairs:    Robert J. Marks,II (IEEE NNC), University of Washington
                     Harold H. Szu (INNS), Naval Surface Warfare Center
                     Rolf Eckmiller (ENNS), University of Dusseldorf
                     Noboru Sugie, Nagoya University
Steering Chair:      Toshio Fukuda, Nagoya University
General Affair Chair:Fumihito Arai, Nagoya University
Finance Chairs:      Hide-aki Saito, Tamagawa University
                     Roy S. Nutter,Jr, West Virginia University
Publicity Chairs:    Shiro Usui, Toyohashi University of Technology
                     Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou,  Rutgers University
Publication Chair:   Yoichi Okabe, University of Tokyo
Local Arrangement Chair:Yoshiki Uchikawa, Nagoya University
Exhibits Chairs:     Masanori Idesawa, Riken
                     Shigeru Okuma, Nagoya University
Industry Forum Chairs:Noboru Ohnishi, Nagoya University
                     Hisato Kobayashi, Hosei University
Social Event Chair:  Kazuhiro Kosuge, Nagoya University
Tutorial Chair:      Minoru Tsukada, Tamagawa University
Technical Tour Chair:Hideki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo


REGISTRATION:

Registration Fee

Full conference registration fee includes admission to all sessions,
exhibit area, welcome reception and proceedings.  Tutorials and
banquet are NOT included.


Member-ship     Before Aug. 31 '93      After  Sept. 1 '93      On-site
Member*         45,000 yen              55,000 yen              60,000 yen
Non-Member      55,000 yen              65,000 yen              70,000 yen
Student**       12,000 yen              15,000 yen              20,000 yen



Tutorial Registration Fee

Tutorials will be held on Monday, October 25, 1993, 10:00 am-1:00 pm.
and 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm. The complete list of tutorials will be
available in the June mailing.

Member-ship Option          Before August 31 '93        After Sept. 1 '93
                        Industrial       Univ.&
                                        Nonprofit Inst.
Member* Half day        20,000 yen       7,000 yen      40,000 yen
        Full day        30,000 yen      10,000 yen      60,000 yen
Non-    Half day        30,000 yen      10,000 yen      50,000 yen
Member  Full day        45,000 yen      15,000 yen      80,000 yen
Student**Half day       ------------     5,000 yen      20,000 yen
        Full day        ------------     7,500 yen      30,000 yen

*  A member of co-sponsoring  and co-operating societies.

**Students must submit a verification letter of full-time status from
  the Department head.

Banquet

The IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Banquet will be held on Thursday, October 28,
1993.  Note that the Banquet ticket (5,000 yen/person) is not included
in the registration fee.  Pre-registration is recommended, since the
number of seats is limited.  The registration for the Banquet can be
made at the same time with the conference registration.


Payment and Remittance

Payment for registration and tutorial fees should be in one of the
following forms :

1.  A bank transfer to the following bank account:
     Name of Bank:     Tokai Bank, Nagoya Ekimae-Branch
     Name of Account:  Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc.  EC-ka
     Account No.:      1079574
     Address:          6F Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg., 4-8-10 Meieki,
                       Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450  Japan

2.  Credit Cards (American Express, Diners, Visa, Master Card) are
    acceptable except for domestic registrants.  Please indicate your
    card number and expiration date on the Registration Form

Note: When making remittance, please send Registration Form to the
IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat together with a copy of your bank's
receipt for transfer.  Personal checks and other currencies will not
be accepted except Japanese yen.


Confirmation and Receipt

Upon receiving your Registration Form and confirming your payment, the
IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat will send you a confirmation / receipt.
This confirmation should be retained and presented at the registration
desk of the conference site.


Cancellation and Refund of the Fees

All financial transactions for the conference are being handled by the
IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat.  Please send a written notification of
cancellation directly to the office.  Cancellations received on or
before September 30, 1993, 50% cancel fee will be charged.  We regret
that no refunds for registration can be made after October 1, 1993.
All refunds will be proceeded after the conference.


NAGOYA:

The City of Nagoya, with a population of over two million, is the
principal city of central Japan and lies at the heart of one of the
three leading areas of the country.  The area in and around the city
contains a large number of high-tech industries with names known
worldwide, such as Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Sony and Brother.  The
city's central location gives it excellent road and rail links to the
rest of the country; there exist direct air services to 18 other
cities in Japan and 26 cities abroad.

Nagoya enjoys a temperate climate and agriculture flourishes on the
fertile plain surrounding the city.  The area has a long history;
Nagoya is the birth place of two of Japan's greatest heroes: the Lords
Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who did much to bring the
'Warring States' period to an end.  Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed the
task and established the Edo period was also born in the area. Nagoya
is flourished under the benevolent rule of this lord and his
descendants


Climate and Clothing

The climate in Nagoya in the late October is usually agreeable and
stable, with an average temperature of 16-23 C(60-74 F).  Heavy
clothing is not necessary, however, a light sweater is recommended.
Business suit as well as casual clothing is appropriate.


TRAVEL INFORMATION:

Official Travel Agent

Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc. (TPI) has been appointed as the
Official Travel Agent for IJCNN'93-NAGOYA, JAPAN to handle all travel
arrangements in Japan.  All inquiries and application forms for hotel
accommodations described herein should be addressed as follows:

        Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc.
        Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg.
        4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku      Tel: [phone]
        Nagoya 450, Japan               Fax: [phone]

Airline Transportation

Participants from Europe and North America who are planning to come to
Japan by air are advised to get in touch with the following travel
agents who can provide information on discount fares.  Departure
cities are Los Angeles, Washington, New York, Paris, and London.


      Japan Travel Bureau U.K. Inc.
      9 Kingsway London         Tel:  [phone]
      WC2B 6XF, England, U.K.   Fax:  [phone]

      Japan Travel Bureau International Inc.
      Equitable Tower 11th Floor
      New York, N.Y. 10019      Tel:  [phone]
      U.S.A.                    Fax:  [phone]

      Japan Travel Bureau Paris
      91 Rue du Faubourg
      Saint-Honore
      750008 Paris              Tel:  [phone]
      France                    Fax:  [phone]

      Japan Travel Bureau International Inc.
      Suite 1410, One Wilshire Bldg.
      624 South Grand Ave,
      Los Angeles, CA 90017     Tel:  [phone]
      U.S.A.                    Fax:  [phone]

Japan Rail Pass

The JAPAN RAIL PASS is a special ticket that is available only to
travellers visiting Japan from foreign countries for sight-seeing.  To
be eligible to purchase a JAPAN RAIL PASS, you must purchase an
Exchange Order from an authorized sales office or agent before you
come to Japan.  Please contact JTB offices or your travel agent for
details.


Note:  The rail pass is a flash pass good on most of the trains and
       ferries in Japan.  It provides very significant saving on
       transportation costs within Japan if you plan to travel more
       than just from Tokyo to Nagoya and return.  Booking of Japan
       Railway tickets cannot be made before issuing Japan Rail Pass
       in Japan.


Access to Nagoya

 Direct flights to Nagoya are available from the following cities:
Seoul, Taipei, Pusan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Cheju, Jakarta,
Denpasar, Kuala Lumpur, Honolulu, Portland, Los Angeles, Guam, Saipan,
Toronto, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Moscow, Frankfurt,
Paris, London, Brisbane, Cairns, Sydney and Auckland.

Participants flying from the U.S.A. are urged to fly to Los Angeles,
CA, or Portland, OR, and transfer to direct flights to Nagoya on Delta
Airlines, or fly to Seoul, Korea, for a connecting flight to Nagoya.
For participants from other countries, flights to Narita (the New
Tokyo International Airport) or Osaka International Airport are
recommended.  Domestic flights are available from Narita to Nagoya,
but not from Osaka.  The bullet train, "Shinkansen", is a fast and
convenient way to get to Nagoya from either Osaka or Tokyo.


Transportation from Nagoya International Airport

Bus service to the Nagoya JR train station is available every 15
minutes.  The bus stop (signed as No. 1) is to your left as you exit
the terminal.  The trip takes about 1 hour.


Transportation from Narita International Airport

To the Tokyo JR train station (to connect with Shinkansen), 2 ways to
get from Narita to the JR train station are recommended:

1.  An express train from the airport to the Tokyo JR train station.
This is an all reserved seat train.  Buy tickets before boarding
train.  Follow the signs in the airport to JR Narita station.  The
trip takes 1 hour.

2.  A non-stop service is available, leaving Narita airport every 15
minutes.  The trip will take between one and one and a half hours or
more, depending on traffic conditions.  The limousine have reserved
seating, so it is necessary to purchase a ticket before boarding.

If you plan to stay in Tokyo overnight before proceeding to Nagoya,
other limousine to major Tokyo hotels are available.

Transportation from Osaka International Airport

Non-stop-bus service to the Shin-Osaka JR train station is available
every 15 min.

Foreign Exchange and Travellaer's Checks

Purchase of traveller's checks in Japanese yen or U.S. dollars before
departure is recommended.  The conference secretariat and most of
stores will accept only Japanese yen in cash only.  Major credit cards
are accepted in a number of shops and hotels.  Foreign currency
exchange and cashing of traveller's checks are available at the New
Tokyo International Airport, the Osaka International Airport and major
hotels. Major banks that handle foreign currencies are located in the
downtown area.  Banks are open from 9:00 to 15:00 on the weekday,
closed on Saturday and Sunday.


Electricity

100 volts, 60 Hz.


For registration and additional information please contact:
        IJCNN'93-NAGOYA Secretariat:
        Travel Plaza International Chubu, Inc.
        Shirakawa Dai-san Bldg., 4-8-10 Meieki, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya, 450  Japan
        Phone:  [phone]    Fax:  [phone]
________________________________________________________________________________

Please do not reply to this account. Please use the telephone number,
fax number or Mail address listed above.

- ---
Shiro Usui  ([e-mail])
Biological and Physiological Engineering Lab.
Department of Information and Computer Sciences
Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohashi 441, Japan
TEL & FAX [phone]



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Neuron Digest   Saturday, 17 Apr 1993
                Volume 11 : Issue 25

Today's Topics:
       Research and Clinical Positions at Univ. Utah and VA GRECC
                              software help
                            Re: Game Request
                         Response - Who am I ...
                            financial markets
     Very Fast Simulated Reannealing (VFSR) Netlib & Statlib updates
              New Release -- Chipmunk Analog VLSI CAD Tools
                             NN market size
                          Positions at U. of A.
                         job opening at McMaster
                    Neural Nets for Image Restoration
               References on Parallel Simulated Annealing
                   Postdoc Position at Rockefeller U.
 Cascade correlation learning algorithm to predict mortgage prepayments
                            Post-Doc Position
                             Genetic Request
                      Parallel Simulated Annealing


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Subject: Research and Clinical Positions at Univ. Utah and VA GRECC
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Tue, 30 Mar 93 16:55:00 -0700

Colleagues,

        The following announcement represents an exciting opportunity
to participate in a well funded, multidisciplinary research and clinical
program.  Please feel free to contact me with questions.

Steve Fehlauer, M.D.
Research Investigator
SLC VAMC GRECC
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Utah School of Medicine

VA Phone  [phone]  Ext 2468
Univ Phone [phone]
E-Mail [e-mail]

*****************************************************************************

        Geriatric Internal Medicine

The Salt Lake City Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
(GRECC) and the University of Utah School of Medicine are recruiting
individuals to join the faculty of the GRECC/University program in
Geriatric Internal Medicine.  Candidates must be BE/BC in Internal
Medicine and Geriatrics.  Facilities include outpatient clinics,
inpatient Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit, outpatient Geriatric
Medicine/ Psychiatry Program, "wet labs" with capabilities in cell and
bone marrow culture, cell signalling and molecular biology, and
computation facilities including Unix RISC workstations, Pen-Based
clinical computers, PC workstations and LAN.  Interdepartmental
collaborative research is performed in Medical Computation and Modelling
(artificial neural networks, expert systems, fuzzy logic, and semantic
networks), real-time clinical decision support, nursing and medical
information system design, computer assisted medical education, biology
of aging, cytokines and immunity during aging, aerobic exercise and
cognition during aging, and cellular neuroscience.  Low cost of living,
excellent recreation and arts abound in Salt Lake City.  Appointments
will be in the SLC BRECC and the University of Utah Division of Human
Development and Aging.  Faculty rank dependent upon qualifications.

Send curriculum vitae to::

        Personnel Service (05)  Attn: Pruett
        VA Medical Center
        Salt Lake City, UT  84148

        For more information, call:
        [phone]  Ext. 2475

The Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Utah are
Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employers

******************************************************************************


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Subject: software help
From:    David Bradbury <[e-mail]>
Date:    31 Mar 93 10:44:25 +0800

Does anyone know where I can get software that can be used to
build/model/ simulate neural networks and/or genetic algorithms that will
run on an apple mac or a sun workstation? I am a first year Ph.D student
looking at modular neural networks.

David ([e-mail])


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Subject: Re: Game Request
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Wed, 31 Mar 93 21:31:22 +0700

        I am a college student of NCTU in Taiwan .I am taking the computer
   go as my graduation project .I am very interested in neural net ,and I
   think maybe I can apply the neuron theory to this game.All the approaches
   so far for the computer go is not powerful enough to comapre with man.And
   my teacher said it a new trial to use the neural techinque in this field.
   He also said he ever saw some reports about games in your Digest.I think
   maybe you can send us some useful info for games by neuron.


                                                    Sincerely Yours

                                                        Scott Lin
                                                     3/31/93


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Subject: Response - Who am I ...
From:    "Grzegorz Piotr Klebus" <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 02 Apr 93 12:41:57 +0200

[[ Editor's Note: This was a self-introduction, but the greater
readership might be interested in helping out... -PM ]]

        My name is  Grzegorz  P.  Klebus  and  I  am  student  of
Computer  Science at Department of Electronics, Warsaw University
of Technology, Warsaw, Poland. Now I study on  8th  semester.  My
main  field  of interest is, in general, Artificial Intelligence,
but I am particularly involved in subsymbolic  methods,  such  as
neural networks and genetic algorithms.

        I  heard  of  your  digest  from  my  friend  who   found
references  to it in ARCHIE. I am very glad to receive the digest
- - it may help me in my work.

        Now I  am  doing  a  project  on  CMAC  network  and  its
applications.  I  would  be  grateful  if  someone  could send me
references to materials on CMAC. As a matter of fact it  is  very
hard to get information about this network.

        You can contact me via e-mail:

        [e-mail]

        Thanks in advance,

        Grzegorz P. Klebus



------------------------------

Subject: financial markets
From:    [e-mail] (Jim Luscombe)
Date:    Sat, 03 Apr 93 19:47:40 -0600

Forgive me for asking again a much asked question: Can anyone
supply a list of references on applications of neural nets to
financial markets.  Thanks.  Jim Luscombe


------------------------------

Subject: Very Fast Simulated Reannealing (VFSR) Netlib & Statlib updates
From:    Lester Ingber <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 04 Apr 93 13:29:34 -0800


Very Fast Simulated Reannealing (VFSR) Netlib & Statlib updates

To get on or off blind-copy VFSR e-mailings, just send
an e-mail to [e-mail] with your request.
________________________________________________________________________

VFSR is a robust algorithm for nonlinear optimization.  Major changes
since it was made publicly available under the GNU Copyleft in Nov 92
include support for independent setting of scales of annealing of
parameters, extended documentation, and a new option novel to
optimization algorithms permitting VFSR to recursively optimize its own
Program Options for a given system.  The unique latter capability
required a major rewriting of the code to pass only local
pointer-parameters in the vfsr module.

It should be noted that some people have generally criticized simulated
annealing algorithms as _not_ containing enough free parameters to
tune different complex systems.   While VFSR has demonstrated that
it is surprisingly robust given its default parameters, it also is
capable of quite a bit of "tuning";  I put these parameters outside
the code, in a separate structure, to enable people so motivated to
be able to tune their optimizations of their systems.

Codes in Netlib and Statlib have been updated, replacing version 6.38.

                NETLIB (compressed share file) version 9.3
Interactive:
        ftp research.att.com
        [login as netlib, your_login_name as password]
        cd opt
        binary
        get vfsr.Z
Email:
        mail [e-mail] [AT&T Bell Labs, NJ, USA]
        mail [e-mail] [Oak Ridge Natl Lab, TN, USA]
        mail [e-mail] [U Kent, UK]
        mail [e-mail] [Oslo, Norway]
        mail [e-mail] [U Wollongong, NSW, Australia]
and send the one-line message
        send vfsr from opt
(It may take a week or so for the code in research.att.com to propagate
to the other netlib sites.)

                STATLIB (uncompressed share file) version 9.3
Interactive:
        ftp lib.stat.cmu.edu
        [login as statlib, your_login_name as password]
        cd general
        get vfsr
Email:
        mail [e-mail]
and send the one-line message
        send vfsr from general
(It may take a few days for the new version to be installed here.)

After getting the file, on your local machine:
        ingber% uncompress vfsr.Z [If a compressed file was obtained]
        ingber% sh vfsr
        ingber% cd VFSR.DIR
The directory VFSR.DIR contains the code.

If you do not have ftp access, get information on the FTPmail service
by sending the word "help" as a message to [e-mail].
If you receive VFSR via e-mail, then first `uudecode mailfile',
(where mailfile may be a synthesis of several files) to get vfsr.Z,
and then follow the previous directions.

If this is not convenient, and if your mailer can handle large files,
I directly can send you the code or papers you require via e-mail.
Sorry, I cannot assume the task of mailing out hardcopies of code
or papers.

Lester

|| Prof. Lester Ingber                         [10ATT]0-700-L-INGBER ||
|| Lester Ingber Research                        Fax: 0-700-4-INGBER ||
|| P.O. Box 857                           Voice Mail: 1-800-VMAIL-LI ||
|| McLean, VA  22101                EMail: [e-mail] ||


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Subject: New Release -- Chipmunk Analog VLSI CAD Tools
From:    John Lazzaro <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sun, 04 Apr 93 13:42:27 -0800


          Caltech VLSI CAD Tool Distribution -- New Revision
         ---------------------------------------------------


We are offering to the Internet community a new revision of the
Caltech electronic CAD system for analog VLSI neural networks.  This
distribution contains tools for schematic capture, netlist creation,
and analog and digital simulation (log), IC mask layout, extraction,
and DRC (wol), simple chip compilation (wolcomp), MOSIS fabrication
request generation (mosis), netlist comparison (netcmp), data plotting
(view) and postscript graphics editing (until). These tools were used
exclusively for the design and test of all the integrated circuits
described in Carver Mead's book "Analog VLSI and Neural Systems".
Until was used as the primary tool for figure creation for the book.
The distribution also contains an example of an analog VLSI chip that
was designed and fabricated with these tools, and an example of an
Actel field-programmable gate array design that was simulated and
converted to Actel format with these tools.

These tools are distributed under a license very similar to the GNU
license; the minor changes protect Caltech from liability.

Highlights of the new revision includes:

* Ports to new platforms (Supported platforms now include: Sun SPARC,
  Sun 3, HP Series 300/400/700/800, DEC MIPS-based Ultrix, Appple AU/X,
  linux, and IBM RS/6000 support).

* Support for black and white displays, and resource database support
  for user preferences for sizing and placement of windows. New
  display modes in analog to support small screens.

* Direct generation of SPICE netlists in analog, and new models
  for floating-well FET's, two-terminal devices with arbitrary i-v
  curves, and quantum-well tunnel diodes.

* Many bug fixes for analog, wol, view, and until, and new features for view.

If you are interested in some or all of these tools,

1) ftp to hobiecat.cs.caltech.edu on the Internet,
2) log in as anonymous and use your username as the password
3) cd pub/chipmunk
4) copy the file README, that contains more information.

European researchers can access these files through anonymous ftp
using the machine ifi.uio.no in Norway; the files are in the directory
chipmunk.  We are unable to help users who do not have Internet ftp
access.


------------------------------

Subject: NN market size
From:    Alexandre Wallyn <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 06 Apr 93 18:59:12 +0100


You asked in Neuron Digest, volume 11, issue 21, for a prospective
evaluation of NN market size. I made a short compilation one month ago,
so here it is:

1) There is no specific "Neural networks market" which could be an
   envelopp: this technology is pushed by the offer.

2) We can nevertheless take as a maximal market size both the KBS Market
   tools (270 M$ in 1991, expected 370M$ according to Spang Robinson
   report of 1992) or the whole Neural network and fuzzy technologies
   market (estimated 300M$ in 1991, 580 M$ in 1992, with a prospective
   annual rate of 65\%: lettre de l'IA, octobre 1992)

3) OVUM estimates the total European market for Knowledge Based software
   and services at 500MEcus for 1992 and 1500MEcus for 1995. Such and
   increase not only supposes a wider distribution of the technology, but
   also requires pushing the limits of the technology itself. (1 Ecu =
   1.2 $ for the moment)

4) Intelligent Software Strategies (march 1993) is much more pessimistic,
   and consider the KBS market and NN market in reduction: KBS market
   moves to the OO market, and NN market towards specialised products
   (oriented to users), but there is no overall concrete evaluations (for
   NNs) here.

I hope this helps, and welcome any comments and critics.

Alexandre Wallyn
Cap Gemini Innovation
86-90, rue Thiers
92513 BOULOGNE CEDEX
FRANCE
[e-mail]


------------------------------

Subject: Positions at U. of A.
From:    [e-mail] (Mike Dawson)
Date:    Tue, 06 Apr 93 19:56:30 -0700

I'd appreciate it if you could add the following position
advertisement to your next Neuron Digest posting.
Thanks, Mike
========================================================


The University of Alberta, Department of Psychology, is seeking
applications from candidates who can contribute to the further
development of a leading program in Cognitive Science.  Individuals will
be hired into tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level,
salary range $40,035 to $57,003.  Appointments take effect July 1, 1994;
PhD should be completed by that date.  Special consideration will be
given to candidates who have expertise both in basic research and in
applied, problem-oriented areas. Candidates should have significant
interdisciplinary interests; the individuals hired will have the
potential to further develop links across existing areas in the
Department, as well as with other Departments and the extramural research
community.  The Department of Psychology has members within both the
Faculties of Arts and Science and has outstanding infrastructure for
research.  Decisions will be made on the basis of demonstrated research
capability, teaching ability, and the potential for interactions with
colleagues.  We encourage applicants from the following five areas; we
currently have vacancies to fill in four of these areas:

(1) COGNITION AND AGING: Expertise in memory, language, or cognition as they
relate to normal aging or to age-related pathologies.

(2) COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: Expertise in the relation between neural
processes and  cognitive processes such as memory, language, perception,
attention, visual cognition and/or psychophysiology.

(3) COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY: Expertise in any area of cognition. Individuals
with broad interests in language processing and cognitive science, and
research expertise in  psycholinguistics, discourse processing, speech
comprehension and production, word perception and/or reading will be given
special consideration.

(4) COGNITIVE MODELING: Expertise in the computational modeling of cognitive,
perceptual, and/or neural processes. Individuals with the demonstrated
ability to relate these models to empirical observations are especially
encouraged to apply.

(5) SOCIAL COGNITION: Experts in such areas as social judgment and decision-
making, social memory, beliefs and attitudes, affect, motivation, social
psychophysiology, and/or interpersonal relations are especially encouraged to
apply.

In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements, priority will be
given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada.  Applicants
should include a curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, three
letters of recommendation, and reprints or recent publications.  These
materials should be sent to the Chair of the appropriate search committee
(e.g., Chair, Cognition and Aging Search Committee), Department of
Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA T6G 2E9.  To
receive full consideration, all materials must be received by October 15,
1993.  The University of Alberta is committed to the principle of equity
in employment.  The University encourages applications from aboriginal
persons, disabled persons, members of visible minorities, and women.

- --
Michael R.W. Dawson                       email: [e-mail]
Biological Computation Project, Department of Psychology
University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB CANADA T6G 2E9
Tel:  [phone]   Fax: [phone]


------------------------------

Subject: job opening at McMaster
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Wed, 07 Apr 93 10:05:41 -0500

                     McMaster University
                   Department of Psychology

     McMaster University invites applications for a tenure track
position at the Assistant Professor rank starting July 1, 1994,
in the Department of Psychology with associate status in the De
partment of Computer Science and Systems.  This position is sub-
ject to final budgetary approval.

     Candidates' interest should be in artificial intelligence,
specifically in empirical studies and connectionist modelling of
language abilities or language acquisition in normal and brain-
damaged individuals.  Candidates must have expert modelling and
computational skills and be prepared to teach in both computer
science and psychology.

     In accordance with Canadian Immigration requirements,
priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent resi-
dents.  McMaster University is committed to Employment Equity and
encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including
aboriginal people, people with disabilities, members of visible
minorities, and women.

     Please forward applications, consisting of c.v., publica-
tions list, a short statement of research interests, and arrange
to have three letters of reference sent to the Chair, Department
of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1,
Canada.



------------------------------

Subject: Neural Nets for Image Restoration
From:    Avraam Pouliakis - UNA <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 08 Apr 93 12:44:43 +0200

Dear Sir,

  I am a first year Phd student in the department of computer science of
the University of Athens. My research area is in image processing. This
time I am working with image filtering: restoration and spectrum
estimation using AR and ARMA models.
  I am looking for information on neural nets for image filtering
image restoration and spectrum estimation. Any articles, book titles or
software (specially in Fortran or C) will be wellcome.
Thanks in advance.


Abraham Pouliakis.
Division of Communication and Signal Processing
Department of Computer Science
University of Athens
Panepistimioupolis
Athens 15771, GREECE.

email: [e-mail]  (Internet)
       [e-mail]         (Bitnet)


------------------------------

Subject: References on Parallel Simulated Annealing
From:    [e-mail] (Suchi Bhandarkar)
Date:    Thu, 08 Apr 93 16:57:07 -0500



Could someone kindly give me references on parallelization of
simulated annealing? I am particuarly interested in parallelization
on SIMD architectures such as the Connection Machine CM-2 and the MasPar MP
computers. Please e-mail your responses to "[e-mail]"

Thanks a lot
Suchi Bhandarkar


------------------------------

Subject: Postdoc Position at Rockefeller U.
From:    Robert Soodak <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 08 Apr 93 22:51:18 -0500

April 8, 1993

A postdoctoral position in computational neuroscience is available
immediately. Research will be concerned with pattern formation of
orientation columns which result from the orderly mapping of the mosaic
of retinal ganglion cells onto the cortical surface.  Simulations
constrained by published biological data are the primary means of
investigation. The position will involve C programing in a UNIX
environment, and some programing experience is essential. No formal
training in neuroscience is required, although an interest in biological
information processing would be an asset.

Write, phone or email with questions or applications to:

Robert Soodak
Rockefeller University
1230 York Avenue
New York, NY  10021

email: [e-mail]
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]  (Not Private)


------------------------------

Subject: Cascade correlation learning algorithm to predict mortgage prepayments
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 93 14:36:00 -0500

The March issue of The Journal of Fixed Income published a paper on the
use of neural networks to predict mortgage prepayments. The precise reference
is listed below, and copies of the article can be obtained from

Marge Weiler, Decision Sciences Department, The Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

[phone]



***************
Y. Yamamoto and S.A. Zenios, Predicting prepayment rates for mortgage-backed
securities using the cascade-correlation learning algorithm, The Journal of
Fixed Income, Vol. 2(4), pp.86--96, March 1993.



------------------------------

Subject: Post-Doc Position
From:    Bartlett Mel <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 12 Apr 93 11:59:49 -0800



              --------- POSITION AVAILABLE ----------

              Computation and Neural Systems Program
                California Institute of Technology

A post-doctoral position will be available for Fall 1993 to work
collaboratively on the development of a biologically-inspired system
for 3-D visual object recognition.  The position will be for one year
with a possibility for renewal.  The goal of the project is to
construct an integrated software/hardware system for viewpoint
invariant recognition of a large repertoire of real 3-D objects.  The
project will involve ideas and techniques from statistical pattern
recognition and neural network learning, but with a strong emphasis on
algorithms of relevance to biological vision, learning, and memory.

Proficiency in a UNIX/C programming environment is necessary.  Any of
the following additional qualities is desirable: 1) knowledge of
neurobiology and/or psychology of human and animal vision, 2)
knowledge of classical computer vision techniques, and 3) experience
in building large-scale software/hardware systems, particularly
X-windows-based programming.  Salary is $30,000/year.

Interested applicants should send a letter describing their background
and interests, a CV, a few relevant publications, and three letters of
recommendation to:

        Dr. Bartlett Mel
        Division of Biology
        Caltech 216-76
        Pasadena, CA 91125

        [phone]
        [e-mail]

The California Institute of Technology is an equal opportunity/
affirmative action employer and encourages the applications of
qualified women and minorities.



------------------------------

Subject: Genetic Request
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Tue, 13 Apr 93 10:45:00 +0000

Dear Sir,
I realise that your excellent publication may not be the correct forum
for this request but maybe you would kindly consider its submission
which would allow me to hopefully contact people who are bound to be
infinitely more knowledgeable than myself about a problem I am
encountering.

I have written a simple genetic algorithm somewhat like the one described
in Goldberg's book using breeding, mutation and crossover as operators.
The algorithm is being used to optimise a least squares error in order
to find the parameters of a mutlivariate expression. Unfortunately I am
finding that in a fixed population size that the population very rapidly
becomes dominated by a particular chromosome and as such there is not
enough diversity left in the genepool for a particularly good fitting
expression to be found. I have tried linear prescaling as described by
Goldberg but it appeared to me that it merely slowed down the whole
process rather than actually dealing with the problem.  I have read a
couple of papers including the Federal Bureau of Mines report but it really
didn't seem to help.

Please, please has anyone come across a good way around the problem, if so
I would be absolutely ecstatic to hear from you. Just as an aside if you
do decide to contact me would you mind keeping the mathematical
content of your reply to a minimum.

Thank you in advance for your kind consideration and I hope this will
not cause you too much inconvenience.

Margaret Hartnett
School of Chemical Sciences
Dublin City University
( [e-mail] )


------------------------------

Subject: Parallel Simulated Annealing
From:    [e-mail] (Suchi Bhandarkar)
Date:    Thu, 15 Apr 93 13:50:01 -0500

Could someone kindly give me references on parallelization of
simulated annealing? I am particuarly interested in parallelization
on SIMD architectures such as the Connection Machine CM-2 and the
MasPar MP computers. Please e-mail your responses to
"[e-mail]"

Thanks a lot,

Suchi Bhandarkar
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Georgia
E-mail: [e-mail]


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                Volume 11 : Issue 26

Today's Topics:
                        Call for Papers: NIPS*93
                 1993 Goddard AI Conference Announcement
             European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
                              AI & MATH CFP
    CFP:Call for Papers, World Congress on Computational Intelligence
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Subject: Call for Papers: NIPS*93
From:    [e-mail] (Bartlett Mel)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Date:    26 Mar 93 19:30:22 +0000



                                   CALL FOR PAPERS
                        Neural Information Processing Systems
                               -Natural and Synthetic-
                  Monday, November 29 - Thursday, December 2, 1993
                                  Denver, Colorado

          This is the seventh meeting of an  inter-disciplinary  conference
          which brings together neuroscientists, engineers, computer scien-
          tists, cognitive scientists, physicists, and  mathematicians  in-
          terested  in  all  aspects  of neural processing and computation.
          There will be an afternoon of  tutorial  presentations  (Nov  29)
          preceding  the  regular session and two days of focused workshops
          will follow at a nearby ski area (Dec 3-4).

          Major categories and examples of subcategories for paper  submis-
          sions are the following:

          Neuroscience: Studies and Analyses of Neurobiological Systems,
          Inhibition  in  cortical circuits, Signals and noise in neural
          computation, Computational and Theoretical Neurobiology,  Neu-
          rophysics.

          Theory:  Computational  Learning  Theory,  Complexity  Theory,
          Dynamical  Systems,  Statistical  Mechanics,  Probability  and
          Statistics, Approximation Theory.

          Implementation and Simulation: VLSI, Optical, Software Simula-
          tors,  Implementation Languages, Parallel Processor Design and
          Benchmarks.

          Algorithms and Architectures: Learning  Algorithms,  Construc-
          tive  and  Pruning Algorithms, Localized Basis Functions, Tree
          Structured Networks, Performance Comparisons,  Recurrent  Net-
          works, Combinatorial Optimization, Genetic Algorithms.

          Cognitive Science & AI: Natural Language, Human  Learning  and
          Memory, Perception and Psychophysics, Symbolic Reasoning.

          Visual Processing: Stereopsis, Visual Motion, Recognition, Im-
          age Coding and Classification.

          Speech and Signal Processing: Speech Recognition, Coding,  and
          Synthesis,  Text-to-Speech,  Adaptive  Equalization, Nonlinear
          Noise Removal.

          Control, Navigation, and Planning:  Navigation  and  Planning,
          Learning  Internal  Models  of the World, Trajectory Planning,
          Robotic Motor Control, Process Control.

          Applications: Medical Diagnosis or  Data  Analysis,  Financial
          and  Economic  Analysis, Timeseries Prediction, Protein Struc-
          ture Prediction, Music Processing, Expert Systems.

          Technical Program: Plenary, contributed and poster sessions  will
          be  held.   There will be no parallel sessions.  The full text of
          presented papers will be published.

          Submission Procedures:  Original research contributions are soli-
          cited,  and  will be carefully refereed.  Authors must submit six
          copies of both a 1000-word (or less) summary and six copies of  a
          separate  single-page  50-100 word abstract clearly stating their
          results postmarked by May 22, 1993 (express mail  is  not  neces-
          sary).  Accepted  abstracts  will  be published in the conference
          program.  Summaries are for program committee use only.   At  the
          bottom  of each abstract page and on the first summary page indi-
          cate preference for oral or poster presentation and  specify  one
          of  the  above  nine  broad  categories and, if appropriate, sub-
          categories (For  example:  Poster,  Applications-Expert  Systems;
          Oral,  Implementation-Analog  VLSI). Include addresses of all au-
          thors at the front of the summary and the abstract  and  indicate
          to  which  author correspondence should be addressed. Submissions
          will not be considered that lack category  information,  separate
          abstract  sheets,  the  required six copies, author addresses, or
          are late.

          Mail Submissions To:

          Gerry Tesauro
          NIPS*93 Program Chair
          The Salk Institute, CNL
          10010 North Torrey Pines Rd.
          La Jolla, CA 92037

          Mail For Registration Material To:

          NIPS*93 Registration
          NIPS Foundation
          PO Box 60035
          Pasadena, CA 91116-6035

          All submitting authors will be  sent  registration  material  au-
          tomatically.   Program  committee  decisions  will be sent to the
          correspondence author only.

          NIPS*93 Organizing Committee: General Chair, Jack Cowan,  Univer-
          sity  of Chicago; Publications Chair, Joshua Alspector, Bellcore;
          Publicity  Chair,  Bartlett Mel, CalTech;  Program  Chair,  Gerry
          Tesauro,  IBM/Salk Institute; Treasurer, Rodney Goodman, CalTech;
          Local  Arrangements,  Chuck  Anderson,  Colorado State  Universi-
          ty;  Tutorials  Chair,  Dave Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon, Workshop
          Chair, Mike Mozer, University  of  Colorado;  Program  Co-Chairs:
          Larry  Abbott,  Brandeis  Univ,  Chris Atkeson, MIT; A. B. Bonds,
          Vanderbilt Univ; Gary Cottrell, UCSD;  Scott  Fahlman,  CMU;  Rod
          Goodman,  Caltech;  John  Hertz,  NORDITA/NIH;  John  Lazzaro, UC
          Berkeley;  Todd  Leen,   OGI;   Jay   McClelland,   CMU;   Nelson
          Morgan,ICSI;  Steve  Nowlan,  Salk  Inst./Synaptics; Misha Pavel,
          NASA/OGI; Sandy Pentland, MIT;  Tom  Petsche,  Siemens.  Domestic
          Liasons:  IEEE Liaison, Terrence Fine, Cornell; Government & Cor-
          porate Liaison, Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute Inc.;  Overseas
          Liasons: Mitsuo Kawato, ATR;  Marwan Jabri, University of Sydney;
          Gerard Dreyfus, Ecole Superieure, Paris;  Alan Murray, University
          of Edinburgh;  Andreas Meier, Simon Bolivar U.

          DEADLINE FOR SUMMARIES & ABSTRACTS IS MAY 22, 1993 (POSTMARKED)

                                     please post































9
- --

 Division of Biology
 Caltech 216-76
 Pasadena, CA 91125

------------------------------

Subject: 1993 Goddard AI Conference Announcement
From:    James Rash <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 29 Mar 93 12:50:00 -0500



                 AI CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

              NASA Goddard Conference on Space
           Applications of Artificial Intelligence

                     May 10-12, 1993
             NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
                      Greenbelt, MD


The eighth annual Goddard Conference on Space Applications of
Artificial Intelligence will focus on AI research and applications
relevant to space systems, space operations, and space science.
Topics will include:

     o  Intelligent information management,

     o  Knowledge-based monitoring, control, and diagnosis,

     o  Image and data classification,

     o  Planning and scheduling,

     o  Robotics, and

     o  Knowledge engineering

Invited speakers will include Melvin Montemerlo of NASA Headquarters,
Bonnie Webber of the University of Pennsylvania, Dana Ballard of the
University of Rochester, and Mark Fox of the University of Toronto.

Tutorials will include Case-based Reasoning (CBR) by Kris Hammond of
the University of Chicago, and Developing CBR-based Applications by
Steven Oxman of OXCO Corporation.

All events are free and open to the public.  However, registration is
required.  All registrants must provide the following information:
full name, company or agency, full address, phone number, dates of
attendance, and citizenship (if not US, also indicate whether you have
a Green Card).  Non US citizens must give two weeks' advance notice.
To register, call [phone], or FAX the above information to
[phone].

For further information call [phone].






------------------------------

Subject: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
From:    Martin Davies <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sat, 03 Apr 93 00:23:00 +0000



************************************************************************


******  EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY  ******

        ***********  SECOND ANNUAL MEETING  ***********

       *****HANG SENG CENTRE FOR COGNITIVE STUDIES*****
              *****UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD*****

                  ****  3 - 6 JULY, 1993  ****


The Second Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and
Psychology will be held at the University of Sheffield, England, from
the afternoon of Saturday 3 July to the morning of Tuesday 6 July, 1993.

The meeting is sponsored by the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies,
University of Sheffield.


The goal of the Euro-SPP is: 'to promote interaction between
philosophers and psychologists on issues of common concern'.



                   ***** REGISTRATION *****


In order to register for the conference, you must fill out a
Registration Form.  Registration forms, along with information
about accommodation and meals, can be obtained by writing to:

      Peter Carruthers,
      Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies
      Department of Philosophy,
      University of Sheffield,
      Sheffield,  S10 2TN
      UK

or by sending email to:

      [e-mail]


THE REGISTRATION FEE (to include membership of the Euro-SPP) is
15 pounds sterling, or 10 pounds sterling for students.

The cost of ACCOMMODATION AND MEALS (from dinner on Saturday to
breakfast on Tuesday, including a visit to Chatsworth House - one
of the great country houses of England - on Monday evening) is
120 pounds sterling.

For those participants who do not require accommodation, the
charge for MEALS is 70 pounds sterling.

PAYMENT should be in *pounds sterling*, either by a cheque or draft
drawn on a British bank or else by a EuroCheque.  For all other
methods of payment - whether foreign currency cheque, sterling
cheque drawn on a non-UK bank, or electronic transfer - it will be
necessary to make a surcharge of *seven pounds sterling* to cover
clearance charges.

Cheques must be made payable to *The University of Sheffield*.

When registration is complete, you will be sent an information pack
including maps and other touristic information along with a detailed
programme.


************************************************************************


                 ***** PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME *****


SATURDAY 3 JULY

                        Conference desk open from 12 noon

3.00 - 5.00 pm          SYMPOSIUM 1: Body and Space

5.00 - 5.30 pm          Tea

6.15 - 7.45pm           INVITED LECTURE:  Ruth Millikan

8.15 pm                 DINNER
                        in Firth Hall, University of Sheffield


SUNDAY 4 JULY

9.00 - 11.00 am         SYMPOSIUM 2:  Explanation by Intentional States

11.00 - 11.30 am        Coffee

11.30 am - 1.00 pm      SUBMITTED PAPERS

1.00 - 2.00 pm          LUNCH

2.00 - 4.00 pm          SYMPOSIUM 3: The Autonomy of Social Explanation

4.00 - 4.30 pm          Tea

4.30 - 6.00 pm          TUTORIAL LECTURE:  Machine Vision


6.15 pm                 BUSINESS MEETING followed by a RECEPTION

8.00 pm                 DINNER


MONDAY 5 JULY

9.00 - 11.00 am         SYMPOSIUM 4: Mindblindness:
                                     Autism and Theory of Mind

11.00 - 11.30 am        Coffee

11.30 am - 1.00 pm      SUBMITTED PAPERS

1.00 - 2.00 pm          Lunch

2.00 - 4.00 pm          ROUND TABLE:  Neuropsychological Approaches

4.00 - 4.30 pm          Tea

4.30 - 6.00 pm          INVITED LECTURE:  tba

6.30 pm                 A visit to Chatsworth House,including
                        DINNER


TUESDAY 6 JULY

                        Depart after breakfast


Symposium speakers include:

        Simon Baron-Cohen, John Campbell, Pascal Engel,
        Juan Carlos Gomez, Pierre Jacob, Marcel Kinsbourne,
        Tony Marcel, Michael Martin, David Perrett,
        Gabriel Segal, Tim Shallice, Chris Sinha



************************************************************************





------------------------------

Subject: AI & MATH CFP
From:    ugur halici <[e-mail]>
Date:    Sat, 03 Apr 93 15:24:02 +0500



                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                   Third International Symposium on
               ---------------------------------------
               ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS
               ---------------------------------------
                         January 2-5, 1994,
               Pier 66 Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

                            General Chair:
            Martin Golumbic, IBM Israel Scientific Center,
               Haifa and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan

                           Conference Chair:
            Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University

                          Program co-chairs:
                    Erol Gelenbe, Duke University,
                    Zvi Kedem, New York University

                            Publicity Chair:
             Ugur Halici, Middle East Technical University

                           Program Committee:

  S. Arikawa, Kyushu *  A. Bundy, Edinburgh  *  T.Y. Chen, Melbourne
  R.A.T. Guerreiro, Rio de Janeiro *  P. Hammer, New Brunswick
  J. Hooker, Pittsburgh * L. Joskowicz, Yorktown Heights * D. Kapur, Albany
  H. Kirchner, Nancy * V. Kistlerov, Moscow * J-C. Latombe, Stanford
  J.L. Lassez, Yorktown Heights * R.C.T. Lee, Hsinchu * R. Lusk, Argonne
  F. Mizoguchi, Tokyo * A. Nerode, Ithaca * M. Nivat, Paris
  R. Overbeek, Argonne * Z. Ras, Chapel Hill * M. Richter, Kaiserslautern
  D. Rosenkrantz, Albany * R.K. Shyamasundar, Bombay * P. Spirakis, Patras
  M. Stickel, Menlo Park * S. Suddarth, Washington * L. Valiant, Cambridge
  M. Vardi, Almaden * P. Wolper, Liege

                        APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
is the third of a biennial series featuring applications of
mathematics in artificial intelligence as well as artificial
intelligence techniques and results in mathematics.  There has always
been a strong relationship between the two disciplines; however, the
contact between practitioners of each has been limited, partly by the
lack of a forum in which the relationship could grow and flourish.
This symposium represents a step towards improving contacts and
promoting cross-fertilization between the two areas.  The editorial
board of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence serves
as the permanent organizing committee for the series of Symposia.

                        SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Please submit five copies of extended abstracts (up to 10 double-spaced pages)
by July 30th, 1993 to:

For authors from Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa -

                              Erol Gelenbe,
       EHEI/Mathematiques, 45 rue des Saints-Peres, 75006 Paris, France,
                        E-mail: [e-mail]

For authors from North and South America

                              Zvi Kedem
       New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012
                      E-mail: [e-mail]

Authors will be notified of acceptance on September 30th, 1993.  Authors
will be invited to submit within one month after the Symposium a final
full length version of their paper to be considered for inclusion in
a thoroughly refereed volume of the series Annals of Mathematics and
Artificial Intelligence, J.C. Baltzer Scientific Publishing Co.

                              SPONSORS

The Symposium is sponsored by Florida Atlantic University and the U.S.AirForce
Partial travel subsidies may be available to junior researchers.

                            INFORMATION

For further information and future announcements contact:

                         Frederick Hoffman,
        Florida Atlantic University, Department of Mathematics,
              PO Box 3091, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA
         E-mail: [e-mail] or [e-mail]


------------------------------

Subject: CFP:Call for Papers, World Congress on Computational Intelligence
From:    Russ Eberhart <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 05 Apr 93 18:12:52 -0500


                        ***CALL FOR PAPERS***
         ___________________________________________________
          IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
         ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
         * IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks *
                          * FUZZ/IEEE '94 *
     * IEEE International Symposium on Evolutionary Computation *

                        June 26 - July 2, 1994
      Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel, Lake Buena Vista, Florida

            Sponsored by the IEEE Neural Networks Council
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

           IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NEURAL NETWORKS

                   Steven K. Rogers, General Chair
                         [e-mail]
Topics:
Applications, architectures, artificially intelligent neural networks,
artificial life, associative memory, computational intelligence,
cognitive science, embedology, filtering, fuzzy neural systems, hybrid
systems, image processing, implementations, intelligent control,
learning and memory, machine vision, motion analysis, neurobiology,
neurocognition, neurodynamics, optimization, pattern recognition,
prediction, robotics, sensation and perception, sensorimotor systems,
speech, hearing and language, system identification, supervised and
unsupervised learning, tactile sensors, and time series analysis.
             -------------------------------------------

                            FUZZ/IEEE '94

                  Piero P. Bonissone, General Chair
                       [e-mail]
Topics:
Basic principles and foundations of fuzzy logic, relations between
fuzzy logic and other approximate reasoning methods, qualitative and
approximate-reasoning modeling, hardware implementations of fuzzy-
logic algorithms, design, analysis, and synthesis of fuzzy-logic
controllers, learning and acquisition of approximate models, relations
between fuzzy logic and neural networks, integration of fuzzy logic
and neural networks, integration of fuzzy logic and evolutionary
computing, and applications.
             -------------------------------------------

             IEEE CONFERENCE ON EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION

                 Zbigniew Michalewicz, General Chair
                        [e-mail]
Topics:
Theory of evolutionary computation, evolutionary computation
applications, efficiency and robustness comparisons with other direct
search algorithms, parallel computer applications, new ideas
incorporating further evolutionary principles, artificial life,
evolutionary algorithms for computational intelligence, comparisons
between different variants of evolutionary algorithms, machine
learning applications, evolutionary computation for neural networks,
and fuzzy logic in evolutionary algorithms.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

               INSTRUCTIONS FOR ALL THREE CONFERENCES

Papers must be received by December 10, 1993.  Papers will be reviewed
by senior researchers in the field, and all authors will be informed
of the decisions at the end of the review proces.  All accepted papers
will be published in the Conference Proceedings.  Six copies (one
original and five copies) of the paper must be submitted.  Original
must be camera ready, on 8.5x11-inch white paper, one-column format in
Times or similar fontstyle, 10 points or larger with one-inch margins
on all four sides.  Do not fold or staple the original camera-ready
copy.  Four pages are encouraged.  The paper must not exceed six pages
including figures, tables, and references, and should be written in
English.  Centered at the top of the first page should be the complete
title, author name(s), affiliation(s) and mailing address(es).  In the
accompanying letter, the following information must be included: 1)
Full title of paper, 2) Corresponding authors name, address, telephone
and fax numbers, 3) First and second choices of technical session, 4)
Preference for oral or poster presentation, and 5) Presenter's name,
address, telephone and fax numbers.  Mail papers to (and/or obtain
further information from): World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Meeting Management, 5665 Oberlin Drive, #110, San Diego,
California 92121, USA (email: [e-mail], telephone:
619-453-6222).



------------------------------

Subject: CFP - Israeli Symposium on AI and Vision, Dec. 1993
From:    Ronen Basri <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 07 Apr 93 17:34:16 +0200



                            Call For Papers

                      10th Israeli Symposium on
              Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision
                   Tel-Aviv, December 27-28, 1993

The conference is the joint annual meeting of the Israeli Association for
Artificial Intelligence, and the Israeli Association for Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition, which are affiliates of the Israeli Information
Processing Association.

Papers addressing all aspects of AI and Computer Vision, including, but
not limited to, the following topics, are solicited:

Image Processing and Analysis

Computer Vision, Applications, Robotics

Biological Vision, Visual Perception

Cognitive Modeling

Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks

Natural Language Processing

Inductive Inference, Automated Reasoning, Planning and Search

Knowledge Acquisition, Knowledge Theory, Logics of Knowledge

AI and Education, AI Languages and Methodology


Submitted papers will be refereed by the program committee.  Authors
should submit 4 copies of the full paper (in English).  Accepted papers
will appear in the conference proceedings.

Papers should be received by the conference co-chairmen at one of the
following addresses by June 30th, 1993.  Authors will be notified of
acceptance by September 15th 1993.

   Vision:                                 AI:
   Dr. Ronen Basri                         Dr. Uri J. Schild
   10th IAICV                              10th IAICV
   Dept. of Appl. Math. and Comp. Sci.     Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci.
   The Weizmann Institute of Science       Bar Ilan University
   Rehovot 76100, Israel                   Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
   [e-mail]             [e-mail]


VISION Committee Members:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

D. Weinshall            Hebrew University       [e-mail]
N. Intrator             Tel Aviv University     [e-mail]
N. Kiryati              Technion                [e-mail]
Z. Smilansky            Orbotec                 [e-mail]
Y. Halor                Weizmann Institute      [e-mail]
R. Basri (Chairman)     Weizmann Institute      [e-mail]


AI Committee Members:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

L. Manevitz             Haifa University        [e-mail]
M. Golumbic             IBM Scientific center   [e-mail]
S. Kraus                Bar-Ilan University     [e-mail]
Y. Davidor              Weizmann Institute      [e-mail]
U. Ornan                Technion                [e-mail]
S. Markovitz            Technion                [e-mail]
J. Rosenschein          Hebrew University       [e-mail]
E. Gudes                Ben-Gurion University   [e-mail]
U. Schild (Chairman)    Bar-Ilan University     [e-mail]


------------------------------

Subject: ICANN'94 Preliminary Call for Papers
From:    Piero Morasso <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 14 Apr 93 19:09:17 +0700

 --------------------------------------------------------------------
 |         ************************************************         |
 |         *                                              *         |
 |         *    EUROPEAN NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY           *         |
 |         *      PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS             *         |
 |         *       I C A N N ' 94 - SORRENTO              *         |
 |         *                                              *         |
 |         ************************************************         |
 |                                                                  |
 | ICANN'94 (INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS)|
 | is the fourth Annual Conference of ENNS and it comes after       |
 | ICANN'91(Helsinki), ICANN'92 (Brighton), ICANN'93 (Amsterdam).   |
 | It is co-sponsored by INNS, IEEE-NC, JNNS.                       |
 | It will take place at the Sorrento Congress Center, near Naples, |
 | Italy, on May 26-29, 1994.                                       |
 | There will be tutorials and invited talks by top-experts         |
 | in the field who will also join the program committee.           |
 |                                                                  |
 | Interested authors are cordially invited to present their work   |
 | in one of the following "Scientific Areas" (A-Cognitive Science; |
 | B-Mathematical Models; C- Neurobiology; D-Fuzzy Systems;         |
 | E-Neurocomputing), indicating also an "Application domain"       |
 | (1-Motor Control;2-Speech;3-Vision;4-Natural Language;           |
 | 5-Process Control;6-Robotics;7-Signal Processing;                |
 | 8-Pattern Recognition;9-Hybrid Systems;10-Implementation).       |
 |                                                                  |
 | DEADLINE for CAMERA-READY COPIES: December 15, 1993.             |
 | ----------------------------------------------------             |
 | Detailed instructions will be given in a subsequent call.        |
 |                                                                  |
 | Conference Chair: Prof. Eduardo R. Caianiello, Univ. Salerno,    |
 | Italy, Dept.Theoretic Physics; email: [e-mail]      |
 |                                                                  |
 | Conference Co-Chair: Prof. Pietro G. Morasso, Univ. Genova,      |
 | Italy, Dept.Informatics, Systems,Telecommunication,              |
 | email: [e-mail]                                     |
 |                                                                  |
 | Tutorial Chair: Prof. John Taylor, Imperial College,London, UK,  |
 | fax: [phone]                                             |
 |                                                                  |
 | Industrial Liaison Chair: Dr. Roberto Serra, Ferruzzi            |
 | Finanziaria, Ravenna, fax: [phone]                   |
 --------------------------------------------------------------------


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                Volume 11 : Issue 27

Today's Topics:
Workshop on AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATON AND VERIFICATION
           EXPERT SYSTEMS & NEURAL NETWORKS - call for papers
                           ESANN'93 conference
                        ai & math conference CFP


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Subject: Workshop on AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATON AND
 VERIFICATION
From:    [e-mail] (Kari Torkkola)
Organization: Institut Dalle Molle d`Intelligence Artificielle Perceptive
(IDIAP)
Date:    Thu, 08 Apr 93 10:50:33 +0100


                                Workshop on

        AUTOMATIC SPEAKER RECOGNITION, IDENTIFICATON AND VERIFICATION

                  Martigny, Switzerland, APRIL 5-7, 1994

        Advance Notice, Preliminary Registration and Call for Papers

The European Speech Communication Association (ESCA) has identified
Automatic Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification as
important areas of current research interest. An ESCA Tutorial and
Research Workshop (ETRW) is being organized in Martigny on 5-7 April
1994. Contributions should be research oriented but also concerned with
applications, which may be demonstrated (live or video).

WORKSHOP THEMES
Contributions are welcome on the following topics:

        -  Intra-and inter-speaker variability
        -  Multi-speaker speech data-bases
        -  Voice transformation and mimics
        -  Speaker verification systems
        -  Vocabulary dependent/independent approaches
        -  Tools for speaker identification
        -  Telecommunication applications
        -  Banking and finance applications
        -  Forensic applications

WORKSHOP SITE
Situated in the heart of the Alps, Martigny offers most summer and winter
sports including mountaineering and skiing. Several sites, in Martigny,
are under consideration. The final location will be announced in the next
circular.

FORMAT OF THE WORKSHOP
This will be an international workshop with a limited number of active
participants. Each session will be introduced by a tutorial presentation
from an invited expert. Most papers will be presented in plenary sessions
with time for demonstration and discussion. Other papers will be
presented in poster sessions preceded by an oral summary of all session
contributions. An exhibition will be organized for those desiring to
demonstrate their work.


PUBLICATION
The Proceedings will be available upon registration. After the workshop
the International Scientific Committee will select a number of workshop
papers for publication as articles in a Book to be edited by the
organizers. These authors will be invited to produce an updated version
of their original paper on the basis of the Committee's comments.

REGISTRATION FEES
The Registration fee is 430 FS ( ~250 ECUs) including mailing,
administration, proceedings, refreshment served at coffee breaks and
workshop dinner with a 50 FS (~30 ECUs) reduction for ESCA members. A
special package including two years' membership (94/95) in ESCA, is 480
FS (~280 ECUs). Students with certificate of status pay 250 FS (~140
ECUs). These rates apply before January 15, 1994. Late registration will
be charged an additional 90 FS (~ 50 ECUs).  You can apply for grants
from the EEC HCM and PECO programs to attend ESCA conferences and
workshops. If you are interested and /or concerned, please contact: ESCA,
BP 7, B 1040 Brussels.


PAYMENT
Payment can be made either by Eurocheque, credit card (Eurocard-Master Card or
Visa) or transfer to the bank account 309 718-01, Credit Suisse, Martigny,
Switzerland, payable to "ESCA". Note the extra charge for late payment  (after
January 15). Personal checks are not accepted.

SCHEDULE

SEPT 15, 1993   Submission of extended summary.

NOV 30, 1993    Notification of acceptance.

JAN 15, 1994    Submission of photo-ready paper and advanced registration.

MARCH 1, 1994   Preliminary program sent out.

APRIL 5-7 , 1994        Workshop.

WORKSHOP SECRETARIAT
For all correspondence concerning the workshop, please use the following
address :
IDIAP-ESCA Workshop
Case postale 609
CH-1920 Martigny, Switzerland
Phone:   + 41 26 22 76 64
Fax:     + 41 26 22 78 18
e-mail:  [e-mail]


EUROPEAN SPEECH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION (ESCA)
ESCA is a non-profit organization for promoting Speech Communication Science
and Technology in a European context. For membership and other information,
please contact : ESCA, BP 7, B-1040 Brussels 40, Belgium.
The GFCP (Groupe Francophone de la Communication Parlee) of SFA and ESCA
is also supporting this workshop.

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
B. ATAL (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA), F. BIMBOT (TELECOM-Paris, FRANCE),
L.-J. BOE (ICP, France), H. BOURLARD (L&H, BELGIUM),
G. CHOLLET (IDIAP, SWITZERLAND),
G. DODDINGTON (DARPA, USA), S. FURUI (NTT, JAPAN), D. JOHNSTON (BT, UK),
J.P. KOSTER (Univ. TRIER GERMANY), J. LAVER (CSTR, UK),
J. MARIANI (LIMSI-CNRS, FRANCE), L. MICLET (CNET, FRANCE),
H. NEY (PHILIPS, GERMANY), A. PAOLONI (FUB, ITALY),J. PECKHAM (LOGICA, UK),
B. PFISTER (ETHZ, SWITZERLAND), P.K. RAJASEKARAN (TI, USA),
A ROSENBERG (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA), F. SOONG (AT&T, Bell Labs, USA),
A.T. TSOI, (Univ Queensland, AUSTRALIA).

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dr Gerard CHOLLET - IDIAP, CNRS
Dr Andrea PAOLONI - FUB
Dr Frederic BIMBOT - TELECOM-Paris, CNRS

ESCA  Tutorial and Research Workshop on
Speaker Recognition, Identification and Verification.
MARTIGNY,Switzerland, April 5-7, 1994
Preliminary registration and
submission of extended summary

Name.
Title:
Affiliation:
Mailing address:


Phone:
Fax:
e-mail:

I would like to participate in the Research Workshop as a
[  ] full participant, [  ] student.
[  ] I am an ESCA Member. Membership #
[  ] Please send information on ESCA membership.

I intend to submit a paper with the title:


Preferred presentation:
 [  ] oral, [  ] poster, [  ] either.
An abstract of max.  400 words is included (5 copies).
[  ] Special equipment needs
[  ] Payment made. Amount paid: FS
[  ] Eurocheque[ ] Money is transferred to account 309 718-01, Credit Suisse,
     Martigny, Switzerland, payable to "ESCA"
[  ] Visa, [  ] Eurocard-Master card
Credit card #:                  Last name:              First name:
Expiration date:
Signature:                      Date:

Please complete this form and attach your extended summary on separate
page(s).  Form and summary shoud be sent no later than Sept 15, 1993 by
mail or fax to :
 IDIAP-ESCA Workshop, C.P. 609, CH-1920 MARTIGNY- SWITZERLAND


------------------------------

Subject: EXPERT SYSTEMS & NEURAL NETWORKS - call for papers
From:    [e-mail] (Expert Systems)
Organization: Learned Information (Europe) Ltd.
Date:    13 Apr 93 12:43:05 +0000


                             Expert Systems

 The International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks

                             Call for papers

Now in its tenth year, Expert Systems: The International Journal of
Knowledge Engineering and Neural Networks is a quarterly technical
journal devoted to all aspects of the development and use of expert
systems and neural networks.  Its aim is to present a wide variety of
material linked by technical quality.  Its readers include knowledge
engineers, artificial intelligence researchers, project managers,
computer scientists and managers.

Expert Systems is always interested in receiving papers on any subject
within its remit and would like to take this opportunity to invite
authors to contribute material to be considered for publication. Articles
should contain significant technical information that will be of general
interest to people working in expert systems and neural networks, and
should present information on the technical aspects of the work reported
rather than on the application domain. Any system presented should be
described in useful detail with examples to illustrate its construction
and use.

                              Subject scope

The subject scope of the journal is as follows (the list is neither
exhaustive nor exclusive):

 - Expert systems: descriptions of the design, development,
   implementation and use of expert systems in all application domains;
   detailed information on systems in unusual or difficult domains or
   systems with unusual technical features.

 - Neural networks: network architectures; knowledge processing; vision;
   self organizing systems; optical neurocomputing; cooperative and
   competitive neural networks dynamics; speed recognition and synthesis;
   neurobiological connections; learning algorithms; robotics; adaptive
   resonance; combinatorial optimisation; cognitive science connections;
   comparison between artificial intelligence and artificial neural nets.

 - Technical developments: technical aspects of knowledge representation;
   reasoning; interfacing with other systems; the use of programming
   languages, software tools and hardware in building expert systems.

 - Research topics: research in new methods of knowledge representation;
   reasoning; machine learning; man-machine interfaces; knowledge
   acquisition; methodologies for developing expert systems; future
   aspects of expert systems.

 - Impact of expert systems: the effect of introducing expert systems
   into organizations; social and economic impact of expert systems;
   impact of expert systems on particular business sectors.

For further information, a guide for authors, and/or subscription
information please contact:

Ben Jeapes
Learned Information (Europe) Ltd
Woodside, Hinksey Hill, Oxford  OX1 5AU, United Kingdom.
Tel: [phone]. Fax: [phone].
Internet: [e-mail]
*****************************************************************************
*                   - Expert Systems & Neural Networks -                    *
*           Ben Jeapes, Managing Editor, Learned Information Ltd.           *
*                     Internet:   [e-mail]                       *
*            tel: [phone]     fax:[phone]             *
*****************************************************************************

------------------------------

Subject: ESANN'93 conference
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Tue, 13 Apr 93 19:30:59 +0100

          ________________________________________________

                      -------------------------
                      ! PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE !
                      -------------------------

          ________________________________________________


                              ESANN ' 93
          European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

                     Brussels, April 7-8-9, 1993

          ________________________________________________

The first European Symposium on Artificial Neural networks was hold in
Brussels (Belgium) on April 7-8-9, 1993.  The conference presented a
selection of high-quality papers in the field of theoretical and
mathematical aspects of neural networks, algorithms, relations with
classical methods of statistics and of information theory, and with
biology.  You will find enclosed the detailed program of the conference.

You may purchase the proceedings of this conference by sending the
following completed form to the conference secretariat.  Please use fax to
avoid delays.  The proceedings include all 36 papers presented during the
conference.

Price: BEF 2500 including postage & packing


_______________________________________________________________________
                   ESANN'93 proceedings: order form
                   ________________________________

Ms., Mr. Dr., Prof.: .................................................
Name: ................................................................
First Name: ..........................................................
Institution: .........................................................
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Adress: ..............................................................
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ZIP: .................................................................
Town:  ...............................................................
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Please send me ... copies of the ESANN'93 proceedings, at BEF 2500 each.

Please send me an invoice:    O Yes
                              O No



Payment (please tick):
O Bank transfer, stating "ESANN'93 - proceedings" and your name, made
  payable to:      Generale de Banque
                   ch. de Waterloo 1341A
                   B-1180 Brussels (Belgium)
                   acc. no. 210-0468648-93 of D facto (45 rue Masui,
                                              1210 Brussels)
  Bank transfers must be free of charges.  Eventual charges must be
  paid as well.
O Cheques/postal money orders made payable to:
  D facto - 45 rue Masui - B-1210 Brussels - Belgium

Only orders accompanied by a cheque, a postal money order or the proof of
bank transfer will be considered.

order form and payment must be sent to the conference secretariat:
     D facto conference services
     ESANN'93
     45 rue Masui
     B-1210 Brussels
     Belgium
     tel: + 32 2 245 43 63
     fax: + 32 2 245 46 94

______________________________________________________________________

The proceedings of ESANN'93 contain the following papers:

"A modified trajectory reversing method for the stability analysis of
neural networks"
        M. Loccufier, E. Noldus
        University of Ghent (Belgium)

"A lateral inhibition network that emulates a winner-takes-all algorithm"
        B. Krekelberg, J.N. Kok
        Utrecht University (The Netherlands)

"Tracking global minima using a range expansion algorithm"
        D. Gorse, A. Shepherd, J.G. Taylor
        University College London (United Kingdom)

"Embedding knowledge into stochastic learning automata for fast solution of
binary constraint satisfaction problems"
        D. Kontoravdis, A. Likas, A. Stafylopatis
        National Technical University of Athens (Greece)

"Parallel dynamics of extremely diluted neural networks"
        D. Bolle, B. Vinck, A. Zagrebnov
        K.U. Leuven (Belgium)

"Enhanced unit training for piecewise linear separation incremental
algorithms"
        J.M. Moreno, F. Castillo, J. Cabestany
        Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Spain)

"Incremental evolution of neural network architectures for adaptive
behaviour"
        D. Cliff, I. Harvey, P. Husbands
        University of Sussex (United Kingdom)

"Efficient decomposition of comparison and its applications"
        V. Beiu, J. Peperstraete, J. Vandewalle, R. Lauwereins
        K.U. Leuven (Belgium)

"Modelling biological learning from its generalization capacity"
        F.J. Vico, F. Sandoval, J. Almaraz
        Universidad de Malaga (Spain)

"A learning and pruning algorithm for genetic Boolean neural networks"
        F. Gruau
        Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble (France)

"Population coding in a theoretical biologically plausible network"
        G.R. Mulhauser
        University of Edinburgh (Scotland)

"Physiological modelling of cochlear nucleus responses"
        C. Lorenzi* **, F. Berthommier**, N. Tirandaz*
        *Universite de Lyon 2, ** Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble (France)

"The Purkinje unit of the cerebellum as a model of a stable neural network"
        P. Chauvet*, G. Chauvet* **
        *Universite d'Angers (France), **University of Southern California USA)

"A mental problem for the solution of the direct and inverse kinematic
problem"
        H. Cruse, U. Steinkuhler, J. Deitert
        Univ. of Bielefeld (Germany)

"Probabilistic decision trees and multilayered perceptrons"
        P. Bigot, M. Cosnard
        Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France)

"Comparison of optimized backpropagation algorithms"
        W. Schiffmann, M. Joost, R. Werner
        University of Koblenz (Germany)

"Minimerror: a perceptron learning rule that finds the optimal weights"
        M.B. Gordon, D. Berchier
        Centre d'Etudes Nucleaires de Grenoble (France)

"MLP modular networks for multi-class recognition"
        P. Sebire, B. Dorizzi
        Institut National des Telecommunications (France)

"Place-to-time code transformation during saccades"
 B. Breznen
 Slovak Academy of Sciences (Czechoslovakia)

"An efficient learning model for the neural integrator of the oculomotor
system"
        J.-P. Draye*, G. Cheron** ***, G. Libert*, E. Godaux**
        *Fac. Poly. de Mons, **Univ. de Mons-Hainaut, ***Univ. Libre de
          Bruxelles (Belgium)

"Motion processing in the retina: about a velocity matched filter"
        J. Herault, W. Beaudot
        Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France)

"Laplacian pyramids with multi-layer perceptrons interpolators"
        B. Simon, B. Macq, M. Verleysen
        Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

"EEG paroxystic activity detected by neural networks after wavelet
transform analysis"
        P. Clochon*, R. Caterini**, D. Clarencon**, V. Roman**
        *INSERM U 320 Caen, **CRSSA U 18 Grenoble-la-Tronche (France)

"An algorithm to learn sequences with the connectionist sequential machine"
        O. Sarzeaud, N. Giambiasi
        Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et Electronique -
Nimes (France)

"Time series and neural network: a statistical method for weight
elimination"
        M. Cottrell, B. Girard, Y. Girard, M. Mangeas
        Universite Paris I (France)

"The filtered activation networks"
        L.S. Smith, K. Swingler
        University of Stirling (Scotland)

"Supervised learning and associative memory by the random neural network"
        M. Mokhtari
        Universite Rene Descartes - Paris (France)

"Mixture states in Potts neural networks"
        D. Bolle, J. Huyghebaert
        K.U. Leuven (Belgium)

"Trajectory learning using hierarchy of oscillatory modules"
        N.B. Toomarian, P. Baldi
        California Institute of Technology (USA)

"Locally implementable learning with isospectral matrix flows"
        J. Dehaene, J. Vandewalle
        K.U. Leuven (Belgium)

"Once more about the information capacity of Hopfield network"
        A.A. Frolov*, D. Husek**
        *Russian Acad. of Sci. - Moscow (Russia), **Acad. of Sci. Czech Republic
 -
Prague (Czech Republic)

"Self-organization of a Kohonen network with quantized weights and an
arbitrary one-dimensional stimuli distribution"
        P. Thiran
        Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

"Optimal decision surfaces in LVQ1 classification of patterns"
        M. Verleysen, P. Thissen, J.-D. Legat
        Universite Catholique de Louvain (Belgium)

"Three algorithms for searching the minimum distance in self-organizing
maps"
        V. Tryba*, K. Goser**
        *SICAN GmbH Hannover, **Universitat Dortmund (Germany)

"Voronoi tesselation, space quantization algorithms and numerical
integration"
        G. Pages
        Universite Paris I & Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France)

"An intuitive characterization for the reference vectors of a Kohonen map"
        A. Varfis, C. Versino
        CEC Joint Research Center (Italy)



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Subject: ai & math conference CFP
From:    ugur halici <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 16 Apr 93 13:04:13 +0500



                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                   Third International Symposium on
               ---------------------------------------
               ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MATHEMATICS
               ---------------------------------------
                         January 2-5, 1994,
               Pier 66 Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

                            General Chair:
            Martin Golumbic, IBM Israel Scientific Center,
               Haifa and Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan

                           Conference Chair:
            Frederick Hoffman, Florida Atlantic University

                          Program co-chairs:
                    Erol Gelenbe, Duke University,
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                            Publicity Chair:
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                           Program Committee:

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  J.L. Lassez, Yorktown Heights * R.C.T. Lee, Hsinchu * R. Lusk, Argonne
  F. Mizoguchi, Tokyo * A. Nerode, Ithaca * M. Nivat, Paris
  R. Overbeek, Argonne * Z. Ras, Chapel Hill * M. Richter, Kaiserslautern
  D. Rosenkrantz, Albany * R.K. Shyamasundar, Bombay * P. Spirakis, Patras
  M. Stickel, Menlo Park * S. Suddarth, Washington * L. Valiant, Cambridge
  M. Vardi, Almaden * P. Wolper, Liege

                        APPROACH OF THE SYMPOSIUM

The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics is
the third of a biennial series featuring applications of mathematics in
artificial intelligence as well as artificial intelligence techniques and
results in mathematics.  There has always been a strong relationship
between the two disciplines; however, the contact between practitioners
of each has been limited, partly by the lack of a forum in which the
relationship could grow and flourish.  This symposium represents a step
towards improving contacts and promoting cross-fertilization between the
two areas.  The editorial board of the Annals of Mathematics and
Artificial Intelligence serves as the permanent organizing committee for
the series of Symposia.

                        SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Please submit five copies of extended abstracts (up to 10 double-spaced pages)
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                Volume 11 : Issue 28

Today's Topics:
                       New Books from Academic Press
                              "Brain Usage"


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Subject: new books
From:    Kathleen Tibbetts <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 15 Apr 93 12:37:28 -0800

[[ Editor's Note: As faithful readers know, this Digest is not generally
an appropriate place for commercial announcements.  However, simple
descriptions without marketing hyperbole seems reasonable to include,
especially (in my opinion) books and other publications. -PM ]]

Following are announcements for two new books from AP that
may be of interest to your readers.  Please let me know if I can
provide any additional information.

Sincerely,

Kathleen M. Tibbetts
Acquisitions Editor
Computer Science

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Academic Press announces the publication of:

            PRACTICAL NEURAL NETWORK RECIPES IN C++

                               by
                      Timothy Masters, Ph.D.


Designed for those with no previous knowlegde of neural networks,
PRACTICAL NEURAL NETWORK RECIPES IN C++ serves as a cookbook for neural
network solutions to practical problems.  It will enable those with
moderate programming experience to select a neural network model
appropriate to solving a particular problem and to produce a working C++
program.  The book provides guidance along the entire problem-solving
path, including designing the training set, preprocessing variables,
training and validating the network, and evaluating its performance.  A
high-density IBM diskette bound in the book includes the source code for
all programs in the book.

Key Features:
* Provides a lengthy treatment of practical fuzzy logic and examples of
  hybrid fuzzy/neural models. Complete code for implementing all major fuzzy
  operations is shown.
* Includes algorithms for implementing two popular stochastic optimization
  techniques -- simulated annealing and genetic optimization.
* Includes a detailed disciussion of computation of decisions confidences.
* Covers feature identification in detail

Contents:

 1. Foundations
 2. Classification
 3. Autoassociation
 4. Time Series Prediction
 5. Function Approximation
 6. Multilayer Feedforward Networks
 7. Eluding Local Minima I: Simulated Annealing
 8. Eluding Local Minima II: Genetic Optimization
 9. Regression and Neural Networks
10. Designing Feedforward Network Architectures
11. Interpreting Weights: How Does This Thing Work?
12. Probablistic Neural Networks
13. Functional Link Networks
14. Hybrid Networks
15. Designing the Training Set
16. Fuzzy Data and Processing
17. Unsupervised Training
18. Evaluating Perfomance of Neural Networks
19. Confidence Measures,
20. Optimizing The Decision Threshold
21. Using the NEURAL Program
Appendix: Source code listings
Bibliography
Index

ISBN: 0-12-479040-2     $44.95 paperback     March 1993     493 pp.

U.S. and Canadian customers may call toll-free 1-800-321-5068 or
fax [phone] Mon. -Fri. 8:30  AM to 7:00 PM Esatern Time.

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Academic Press announces the publication of:


                BIOLOGICAL NEURAL NETWORKS IN
           INVERTEBRATE NEUROETHOLOGY AND ROBOTICS

                          Edited by

               Randall D. Beer and Roy Ritzmann
       Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

                        Thomas McKenna
   Biological Intelligence Program, Office of Naval Research,
                       Arlington, Virginia

A Volume in the NEURAL NETWORKS: FOUNDATIONS TO APPLICATIONS series


This is the first book to integrate research by neuroethologists
interested in the neural basis of natural animal behavior and roboticists
interested in building versatile and robust robots.  Biological Neural
Networks in Invertebrate Neuroethology and Robotics contains 17 essays
that survey neural control of movement and orientation, describe computer
models and neural control circuits, and give examples of actual robot
implementations. This book is the second volume in Academic Press' new
series Neural Networks: Foundations to Applications, which seeks to
emphasize the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas that is central to
advances in neural networks research.

Key Features:

* Presents for the first time the results of research at the intersection
  of the fields of neuroethology and robotics
* Emphasizes potential advances for both biologists and engineers


CONTENTS

I.  Neuroethology Control of Leg Movement

Integration of Individual Leg Dynamics with Whole Body Movement
in Anthropod Locomotion
 R.J. Full

The Walking of Cockroaches--Deceptive Simplicity
F. Delcomyn

Load Compensatory Reactions in Insects: Swaying and Stepping
Strategies in Posture and Locomotion
S.N. Zill

Integration by Spiking and Nonspiking Local Neuron in the Locust
Central Nervous System: The Importance of Cellular and Synaptic
Properties for Network Function
G. Laurent


II  Neuroethology II: Control of Orientation

Multisensory Processing of Movement: Antennal and Cercal
Mediation of Escape Turning in the Cockroach
C.M. Comer and J.P. Dowd

The Neural Organization of the Cockroach Escape and Its Role in
Context Dependent Orientation
R.E. Ritzmann

Acoustic Startle: An Adaptive Behavioral Act in Flying Insects
R.R. Roy

Organization of Goal-Oriented Locomotion: Pheromone-Modulated
Flight Behavior of Moths
E.A. Arbas, M.A. Willis, and R. Kanzaki

A New Role for the Insect Mushroom Bodies: Place Memory and
Motor Control
N. Strausfeld, M. Mizunami and J. M. Weibrecht


III  Computer Modeling

Modeling a Reprogrammable Central Pattern Generating Network
A.I. Selverston, P. Rowat and M.E.T. Boyle

Voyages Through Weight Space: Network Models of an Escape Reflex
in the Leech
S.R. Lockery and T.J. Sejnowski

Simulations of Cockroach Locomotion and Escape
R.D. Beer and H.I. Chiel

Lobster Walking As a Model  for an Omnidirectional Robotic
Ambulation Architecture
J. Ayers and J. Crisman


IV  Robotics

Legged Robots
M.H. Raibert and J.K. Hodgins

A Robot that Walks: Emergent Behavior from a Carefully Evolved
Network
R. Brooks

Control of a Hexapod Robot Using a Biologically Inspired Neural
Network
R.D. Quinn and K.S. Espenschied

Modeling Neural Function at the Scheme Level: Implications and
Results of the Robotic Control
R.C. Arkin


ISBN 0-12-084728-0     $64.95 hardcover     October, 1992     400 pp.


U.S. and Canadian Customers may call toll-free 1-800-321-5068
or Fax [phone] Mon. - Fri. 8:30 Am to 7:00 PM Eastern Time.

Free shipping and handling with prepaid orders.
Visa, Mastercard, and American Express accepted, or send
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     Academic Press
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In Europe call:   081-300-3322

Or write:

     Academic Press
     Book Marketing Department
     24-48 Oval Road
     London NW1 7DX, U.K.


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Subject: "Brain Usage"
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    08 Apr 93 21:05:19 -0500

[[ Editor's Note: Thanks for this interesting compendium.  While a bit
afield from our regular topics, it does bring up the question of ANN (and
natural neural net) capacity -- a topic occaisionally discussed but
rarely in depth.  I hope responses might also be directed back to this
Digest (in addition to the BARIN-L list). -PM ]]



In the category of 'half-baked ideas' :-), the following discussion has
taken on a life of its own on BRAIN-L.  Any takers?  Please respond, if
you can, to [e-mail]

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Brian C. Nice"  2-APR-1993
 13:38:49.51
Subj:   Brain usage

Does anyone have any numbers on what percentage of our brain's full
potential that we as humans use? Any documentation would also be greatly
appreciated.  I am not on this list, so please respond to me directly.
Thanks in advance!
                                        Brian

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "John Langdon"  2-APR-1993 15:49:27.09
Subj:   RE: Brain usage

In message         "Brian C. Nice" writes:
> Does anyone have any numbers on what percentage of our brain's full potential
> that we as humans use? Any documentation would also be greatly appreciated.
> I am not on this list, so please respond to me directly. Thanks in advance!

I have many students who are using only minute portions of their brains'
full potentials, but until someone has a method of measuring/defining
this concept, one would have a difficult time quantifying it. I have seen
this argument expressed as a percentage of neurons used. That would be a
little more concrete, but it only is the inverse of the question "To what
percentage of the brain cells can we not assign a known function?"

In other words, I don't believe the question you cite has any meaning.


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Department of Biology                office phone  [phone]
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From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Morie Malowany"  2-APR-1993 17:46:17.13
Subj:   RE: Brain usage

The question of what percentage of the brain's computational power is
being utilized at time t, or what it is capable of in some limit or
asymptotic sense has no meaning ...

Yet.  It is an interesting question though, how to quantify the
computational power of a biological system in a meaningful way (other
that just the information theoretic sense of how many possible states
does it have, if each neuron can be a zero or a one ...)

- -Morie.
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  5-APR-1993 08:29:27.05
Subj:   RE: Brain usage

I seem to recall that Einstein did say something about this. But don't
forget he was a physician !  I guess we cannot answer to this question
(and certainly not be able for a long, long time). And by the way, what
really is brain's full potential ?

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From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  5-APR-1993 11:28:13.91
Subj:   RE: Brain usage

There seems to be a maddening amount of popular attention devoted to this
question of the percentage of our brain potential that is utilized.  The
question is premature at best, if not entirely ill-posed.  I feel
confident that no one in any field related to the brain is likely to
claim quantative knowledge of how the brain functions, and I expect that
there would be unanimous concensus that its "potential" is not simply
related to the number of neurons (beyond that this should exceed some
minimum) or the percentage active during a particular interval.  Moreover
the question of what it is the brain does seems to have remained
impervious to all attempts to denotatively categorize it.  The concept of
"intelligence" for instance is notoriously slippery.  Given that we don't
know what it does or how it does it, a yardstick for the brain seems
mighty remote

Scott


Agree with all previous responders who have stated, in various ways, that
the brain's potential is unlikely to be a simple function of the number
of neurons it has or how many of them are individually active.

But to the extent that what it is that the brain does,
neurophysiologically, is nowadays thought to be parallel distributed
processing, we may at any rate be a step closer to asking the right sort
of question about the brain's capacity if we take the connectionist
position and ask something like "how many discrete points in its
particular state space is this neural network capable of discriminating?"


Agree with all who state that this is pragmatically an impossible
question for the forseeable future; nevertheless, since those who study
simple artificial neural nets are able to answer mathematically, and with
a straight face, questions about what really determines how much
information a given system is capable of processing and storing, we might
see if there are any connectionist buffs out there willing to stick their
necks out and approach Brian's original question.

By the way, Brian said he wasn't on this list -- has anyone kept him
apprised of the responses his question has generated?  Since I raised
this particular question I guess I'll drop him a line or two myself.

Matt Merkley
The Menninger Clinic
Topeka, Kansas, USA


From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Cristina Sorrentino"  6-APR-1993
 13:28:49.95
Subj:   brain usage

For what it's worth, the question of brain usage is not so far fetched,
ill-posed, impossible to think about until some far distant date in the
future, as some list members have suggested.  For example, during his
talk on April 1st here at McGill on the evolution of language, Pinker
mentioned one victim of hydroencephalus who has above normal intelligence
(ie. is a member of the Oxford Debating club etc.)  Hydroencephalus is a
condition where a person's brain is mostly ventricles and ventricle
fluid, with a normal brain stem and very, very little cortex.  Typically,
victims of this disorder do not have normal intelligence.  But it is not
unheard of that people with the disorder have normal or above normal
intelligence.

Why do we care? Well, this is just the type of phenomenon which can give
us a lead to the question of brain usage, suggesting that the issue is
not intractable.  For one thing, it IMPLIES that much cortex is simply
redundant.  It SUGGESTS that we could quantitatively if not qualitatively
look into the question of brain usage and brain function by studying the
brains of hydroenchephalics...

Comments?

Cristina Sorrentino



From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "James Anglin"  7-APR-1993
 15:12:51.24
Subj:   RE: Brain usage

By way of agreement with John Langdon's question, but wistfully, I offer
a measure of brain potential: the Godel.  As a reference standard, I
consider Kurt Godel's theorems about incompleteness.  I estimate that
there have been no nore than about 100 such intellectual achievements in
history.  There have been about ten billion human beings.  So on average
we use something like one hundred-millionth of our potential.

No wonder my supervisor thinks I'm lazy.

James.

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "John Opfer"  7-APR-1993 19:26:10.78
Subj:   Potentiality and the Brain

James deduces our brain potentiality on the basis of the sum of
intellectual achievements of mankind and the number of actual people who
have lived.  This simply isn't logical.  The potentiality for
intellectual achievement is something that isn't common.  There is no
collective brain.  Dividing such a mythological organ by the number of
actual men in order to determine the potential for achievement of each
individual man is the fallacy of division, as logicians put it.  This is
the same fallacy as trying to deduce the cumulative effects of M&Ms
dropping on your foot over a thousand years from one's knowledge of a
safe dropping on your head.  The difference is great: it is difference of
life or death.  In the case of brain potentiality, it is the difference
between Galileo and the village idiot.

John Opfer
The George Washington University

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Leslie DAIGLE"  8-APR-1993
 00:40:31.50
Subj:   Re. potentiality etc etc

In a tone of impish political correctness, that seems to suit the whole
situation:

>From John Opfer's message:

> mythological organ by the number of actual men in order to determine the
> potential for achievement of each individual man is the fallacy of division,

 ... to say nothing of how we might measure _women's_ contributions,
potentials, and achievements...  :-)


Have a nice day, eh?!
Leslie.

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From:   IN%"$[e-mail]"  "Harold Gordon"  8-APR-1993
 09:23:27.92
Subj:   large brains...

The amount of commentary the issue of brain potential has generated is, well,
mind-boggling.  Should Churchland have a chapter on this in her next book?

Harold Gordon

P.S. Perhaps the list is starved for something to talk about?


From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Morie Malowany"  8-APR-1993 09:33:38.92
Subj:   RE: large brains...

I for one am very interested in a serious approach to this brain
potential question, even if it cannot be definitively answered at the
current level of knowledge.  How might it best be approached? Suggestions
of a connectionist approach and a study of anomolous brains with their
level of functionalities, etc that have appeared on the list seem
promising.  Any others?  What do you think Patricia Churchland would say
about brain potential?

- -Morie
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

From:   IN%"$[e-mail]"  "Harold Gordon"  8-APR-1993
 13:38:32.33
Subj:   potential capacity

I have to admit that beyond the popular question of what percentage of our
brains are we using, is a very good question is "can we calculate (estimate)
a potential capacity?"  I never thought about it seriously before, let me
think out loud:

Storage is likely dependent on functional connections between neurons,
and neuronal systems.  So number of neurons, number (and quality) of
connections are certainly a limiting feature.  Number of connections
depends on the number of branches of the dendritic tree and the number of
synaptic boutons.  Similarly, development of functional synapses
(receptors, metabolic actions for the transmitters, etc.) are also
required.  There must be a mathematical model for the number of
possibilities once one decides how many functional connections is
necessary for an item to be "set" in storage.  I would guess that items
are fuzzily set in storage.  This means that a stimulus to recall the
item would be successful all the time for "ingrained" items and some of
the time for fuzzy items.  This fuzziness is probably dependent on
redundancy of the recall network which may be organized by category
(semantic--a fruit but not a pear), color, size, taste, aroma,...

How do individuals differ in their storage capacity?  By number of
neurons and connections, but probably also in their category organizers
and inter- connections between them (ref. perfect pitch discussion).  Not
everyone organizes their categories in the same way (biologically
speaking as well as learned efficiency), so we all have different
capacities in BOTH amount and type.

That brings to mind of how people differ in terms of thinking modes.  One
whose brain is a supreme organizer may be very compartmentalized and
cannot integrate categories as easily as a less "organzied" brain.  Thus,
a less organized brain may come up with more "creative" ideas but cannot
remember how to spell brain.  (The observation is true, I just made up
the explanation).  So capacity is also dependent on definition of what is
being counted--items remembered or ideas generated.

How's that for a start?
Harold Gordon

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Eric J. Forbis"  8-APR-1993
 14:01:12.21
Subj:   RE: Potentiality and the Brain

On the question of how well "we" use our brains, shouldn't we first
define what portions of the brain are responsible for the sense of
identity, self, then measure their use? Most of the brain is dedicated to
processing visual stimuli, sound, breathing, etc.; these functions may
feed into that region responsible for identity, but of themselves can't
be said to have independent teleological goals, nor can we directly use
them.

I suspect that when we winnow out all but regions dedicated to cognitive
function, we'll be impressed with what can be accomplished with so few
neurons.
Eric J. Forbis       [e-mail]
                     [e-mail]

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "B. Hall"  8-APR-1993 14:02:58.95
Subj:   potential capacity

In regards of Harold Gordon's on brain potential, is there any validity
to the scenario in the recent movie "Lawnmower Man"?

To those of you who haven't seen the movie, a scientist used a
combination of a virtual environment (computer generated) and drugs to
stimulate his subjects brain thus increasing his intelligence
dramatically.

Now I know this is a bit farfetched but what I'm interested in
specifically is the aspect of the virtual/subliminal(?) training.  Is
there any scientific basis for this?

BEST REGARDS, B.S. HALL
(YES THAT IS MY REAL NAME)


From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Morie Malowany"  8-APR-1993 14:11:04.73
Subj:   storage capacity

H. Gordon's discussion of storage capacity reminded me of an oft-cited
paper in the neural-nets literature,

 R.J. McEliece, E.C. Posner, E.R. Rodemid, S.S. Venkatesh, ``The Capacity
of the Hopfield Associative Memory,'' _IEEE Trans. Info. Theory_,
Vol. IT-33, pp. 1-33, July 1987.

which derives a result to the effect that, if I recall correctly,

... the number of well-behaved (in a dynamical
systems sense) stored memories in a binary-valued hopfield-type neural
network, having N neurons in a single-layer fully-feedback-connected
configuration, is

 # memories <=  0.1N

However, the ramifications for the brain of this result are perhaps
negligible.  It just points out that the relation between number of
states one can represent, and number that can be made useful as
"associative memories" is generally not very straightforward.

F.Y.I. (with my apologies to the purists for any oversimplifications)
- -Morie
Montreal, Quebec
Canada


From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "Morie Malowany"  8-APR-1993 14:19:24.85
Subj:   RE: potential capacity

Re: the movie "Lawnmower Man", perhaps this is a bit off-topic from the
virtual learning issue, but rather in the sense of making virtual reality
computing feel more real, I found the idea of providing the
computer-person link with a

 "direct connection to the human nervous or endocrine system?"

rather intriguing.  Of course, the potential dangers of what happens to a
user connected to the system when an error condition occurs are rather
disturbing.  But I suppose it is no worse than other "critical computing"
applications, such as nuclear power plant control, or space shuttle
navigation / launch/ lifesupport
etc.

I don't suppose anyone knows of any actual research papers on such an
interface?

From:   IN%"[e-mail]"  "AL KUSLIKIS"  8-APR-1993 17:55:02.21
Subj:   brain potential

  In line with the connectionist suggestion regarding determining brain
  information-crunching potential, I think that it might be interesting to
  try to determine (or at least to pretend that such a determination is
  possible) what human representational space encompasses.  In other words,
  what is the range of representational states that the uniquely human
  repertoire of sensory processes and various associative mechanisms makes
  possible? The average person's typical day represents a subset of that
  range, I tend to think.

  I'm thinking of "representation" at the bare minimum as a pattern of
  activation of a group of interacting neurons. It's a re-presentation
  because that pattern presumably has a relationship to another pattern, i.e.
  of some sort of input, which may include former activation states of the
  neuron group instantiating the representation. Representations, especially
  at the level of "consciousness" involve hierarchically related patterns
  described by sets of sets of interacting neurons. "Thinking" generally
  describes a habituated sequence of transitions between representational
  states. One could ask, how many types of thought are possible, or more
  specifically, what humanly-comprehensible logical systems are possible? An
  answer to that would (sort-of) give us brain potential, I'd say.

  Al K.


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                Volume 11 : Issue 29

Today's Topics:
             Announcement of a new discussion list: Psyche-D
      Re: Neuron Digest V11 #25 (software, jobs, discussion, etc.)
           Re: forecasting utilising algorithms other than BP.
                             Reference Help
                   Fuzzy ARTMAP simulator request (2)
                      Research Fellowship position
                   Predictoion of time series with NN.
                                 Finance
                        Job possibility in London
                             Research Posts
                   Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA)
                         The Giant Brain Museum
                         Image Texture Modeling
                             Re: Brain Usage
                               Brain Usage
                               brain usage
                                 Savants
                           references request
                         Bibliography available


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Subject: Announcement of a new discussion list: Psyche-D
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Date:    Fri, 16 Apr 93 18:26:00 -0500

           ANNOUNCEMENT OF A NEW DISCUSSION LIST: PSYCHE-D


PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the
interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its
relation to the brain. PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that
exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of
Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial
Intelligence and Anthropology.  Interdisciplinary discussions are
particularly encouraged.

A new discussion list PSYCHE-D has been created to aid people that are
interested in the subject of consciousness. It is hoped that it will
allow members to share ideas, do common research and so on. PSYCHE-D will
also be used to discuss articles that appear in the journal of the same
name, but in addition members are invited to speak on other related
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Subject: Re: Neuron Digest V11 #25 (software, jobs, discussion, etc.)
From:    [e-mail] (Michel Eytan, LILoL)
Date:    Sun, 18 Apr 93 10:25:57 +0000

>From:    David Bradbury <[e-mail]>
>Date:    31 Mar 93 10:44:25 +0800
>
>Does anyone know where I can get software that can be used to
>build/model/ simulate neural networks and/or genetic algorithms that will
>run on an apple mac or a sun workstation? I am a first year Ph.D student
>looking at modular neural networks.

For the Mac, dunno. However for the Sun (and other workstations), try out
Aspirin/Migraines:

>How to get Aspirin/MIGRAINES
>-----------------------
>
>The software is available from two FTP sites, CMU's simulator
>collection and UCLA's cognitive science machines.  The compressed tar
>file is a little less than 2 megabytes.  Most of this space is
>taken up by the documentation and examples. The software is currently
>only available via anonymous FTP.
>
>> To get the software from CMU's simulator collection:
>
>1. Create an FTP connection from wherever you are to machine "pt.cs.cmu.edu"
>(128.2.254.155).
>
>2. Log in as user "anonymous" with password your username.
>
>3. Change remote directory to "/afs/cs/project/connect/code".  Any
>subdirectories of this one should also be accessible.  Parent directories
>should not be. ****You must do this in a single operation****:
>       cd /afs/cs/project/connect/code
>
>4. At this point FTP should be able to get a listing of files in this
>directory and fetch the ones you want.
>
>Problems? - contact us at "[e-mail]".
>
>5. Set binary mode by typing the command "binary"  ** THIS IS IMPORTANT **
>
>6. Get the file "am6.tar.Z"
>
>> To get the software from UCLA's cognitive science machines:
>
>1. Create an FTP connection to "ftp.cognet.ucla.edu" (128.97.50.19)
>(typically with the command "ftp ftp.cognet.ucla.edu")
>
>2. Log in as user "anonymous" with password your username.
>
>3. Change remote directory to "alexis", by typing the command "cd alexis"
>
>4. Set binary mode by typing the command "binary"  ** THIS IS IMPORTANT **
>
>5. Get the file by typing the command "get am6.tar.Z"
>
>Other sites
>-----------
>
>If these sites do not work well for you, then try the archie
>internet mail server. Send email:
>       To: [e-mail]
>       Subject: prog am6.tar.Z
>Archie will reply with a list of internet ftp sites
>that you can get the software from.


Michel Eytan, Lab Info, Log & Lang              [e-mail]
Dpt Info, U Strasbourg II                       V: [phone]
22 rue Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg FR           F: [phone]



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Subject: Re: forecasting utilising algorithms other than BP.
From:    Nolan J C <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 19 Apr 93 18:16:21 +0000

I am currenly engaged in attemping to apply neural net forecasting
techniques to manufacturing process strategies.  While I have had some
luck with BP, in line with the several papers already published in this
field, I am now attempting to apply other neural net algorithms such as
counterpropagation, and cascade correlation.

I would be very interested to know of any similar research readers are
carrying out.  Of special interest would be the use of neural networks
for forecasting in a field where all variables taken into consideration
are not easily quatifiable (is this ever the case ?!).

Naturally I will be prepared to discuss my research with interested
parties.

Many thanks.

Julian Nolan,
Department of ESE,
University of Essex,
Colchester,
Essex
UK.


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Subject: Reference Help
From:    Chihua Chang <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:31:26 -0800

I am a PhD candidate in Department of Electrical and Systems engineering
at the University of Connecticut. Currently I am selecting a topic for my
PhD dissertation. My main interests in neuron networks are analog neuron
networks (including learning algorithm, convergence analysis and so on)
and its implementation in VLSI circuitry. If anybody knows reference like
paper, book or proceeding related to above area, please send me
information or contact to me directly. I sincerely appreciate your
information.

Thank you in advance.

Edward C. Chang
Department of Electrical and Systems engineering
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269

E-mail: [e-mail]


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Subject: Fuzzy ARTMAP simulator request (2)
From:    Dirty Harry <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 20 Apr 93 14:39:00 +0000

Dear Neural Networkers,

I'm trying to use Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) networks for a
supervised learning application.  Are you aware of any simulators (pref.
in C code) for ARTMAP and/or Fuzzy-ARTMAP?  Can you suggest any
alternatives (to ART) for pattern recognition with self-organizing neural
networks?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Charalabos(Harry) D. Dimitropoulos                [e-mail]
                                                  Tel: [phone]
Wheatstone Laboratory                             Fax: [phone]
Department of Physics/King's College London/Strand/London WC2R 2LS/UK
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------


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Subject: Research Fellowship position
From:    Marwan Jabri <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 21 Apr 93 12:52:14 -0500

                Research Fellowship (Fixed-term)
                Deadline 29 April 1993.

                Systems Engineering and Design Automation Laboratory
                Department of Electrical Engineering
                The University of Sydney

                Reference No:    C14/12


The Fellow will work with the Systems Engineering and Design Automation
Laboratory (SEDAL) at Sydney University Electrical Engineering.  SEDAL
currently groups 2 academic staff, 5 research staff and ten postgraduate
students. It has projects in the areas of pattern recognition for
implantable devices, VLSI systems and multi-chip modules, time series
prediction, knowledge integration and continuous learning, and VLSI
computer-aided design.

The Research Fellow position is aimed at: contributing to the research
program; helping with the supervision of postgraduate students;
supporting some management aspects of SEDAL; providing occasional
teaching support.

The appointee should have a PhD or equivalent industry research and
development experience.  It is desirable that the appointee has a
background in one or more of the following areas: machine intelligence
and connectionist architectures; microelectronics; pattern recognition
and classification.

It is also desirable that the appointee be able to join the group before
July 1993.

Appointment will be for three years.  Membership of a superannuation
scheme is a condition of employment for new appointees.  For further
information, please contact Dr M Jabri on (61-2) 692 2240, fax (61-2) 660
1228, Email: [e-mail].

        Salary:         $41,000 - $48,688 per annum

Applications, quoting Reference No, including curriculum vitae, list of
publications, and the names, addresses, fax and phone nos of two referees
to

the Assistant Registrar (Appointments),
Staff Office (K07),
University of Sydney,
NSW 2006
Australia

by 29 April 1993.






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Subject: Predictoion of time series with NN.
From:    "neural nets-prediction of chaotic series"
 <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 21 Apr 93 22:04:16 +0100

Hi!

My name is Vlado Stankovski.

I am a student of Computer Science (3.year) who is very much interested
in the field of Neural Networks. I am especially interested in prediction
of natural (chaos+noise) time series using neural nets.

I am looking for a good algorithm to evaluate the fractal and embedding
dimension of the natural time series.  The time series that I am
analysing has broad-band power spectra and the Grassberger-Proccacia
algorithm is indicating deterministic chaos (fractal dim.~=5). Can I rely
on this results?  Have I properly choosen the autocorrelation length? Or
the time delay?  I would also like to draw the attractor but I do not
know how?

So, this are the problems that bother me at present.  I believe, this
will help me to set an optimal neural net architecture for prediction of
the series. This problems are comeing next.

If You have at least some similar problems or would like to hear more
about my work then please contact me.

In the free time I study the System of Stanislavsky and I attend a School
of Pantomima (Mime). My profesor of Mime is Andres Valdes.


 -------------- CONTACT E_MAIL --------------------------------------

Please,   fell free to e_mail me:

   -->  [e-mail]       or
        [e-mail]

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Subject: Finance
From:    Mary Scott <[e-mail]>
Date:    21 Apr 93 21:18:52 -0500

Luscombe was looking for books with neural net applications relating to
finance topics.  I suggest Neural Networks in C++ (Adam Blum), chapter 4
has a stock market application.  Another book is Neural Network PC Tools
(Eberhart and Dobbins).  They have a pretty detailed futures forecast
model in chapter 12.  The latest book I've acquired is Neural Networks in
Finance & Investing (edited by Trippi & Turban) and it seems pretty good.
My Harvard classes are keeping me busy so I won't have time to really
look into this tome until the summer time.

Regards,
M. Scott







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Subject: Job possibility in London
From:    Annette Karmiloff-Smith <[e-mail]>
Date:    Thu, 22 Apr 93 13:10:33 +0000


MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL,
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT UNIT, LONDON

A short term non-clinical scientific post is available at the CDU in
London for 3 years, to work on the biological basis of cognitive
development alongside Dr Mark Johnson.  The successful candidate should
have a PhD and solid experience in formal computational modelling of
developmental processes.  In addition, we would require experience in one
or more biological techniques, such as event- related potentials, as well
as interest in some area of cognitive development.

The salary is on the non-clinical scientific scale Pounds Sterling 15,563
- - 24,736 per annum, plus Pounds Sterling 2,134 London Weighting.

Applications should be made in writing BY 15 MAY 1993, enclosing CV
and names of three referees to:
The Director, Professor John Morton,
17 Gordon Street, London WC1H OAH, UK
(Fax [phone], E-mail: [e-mail])

The Medical Research Council is an equal opportunities employer.

- -o0o-


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Subject: Research Posts
From:    Jon Shapiro <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 23 Apr 93 17:48:29 +0000

        Two Research Posts

        Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster
        Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

        Short-term memory for verbal sequences: psychological experiments
        and connectionist modelling.

Applications are invited for two posts on a research project
investigating short-term memory mechanisms for processing verbal
information. The first post is for a postdoctoral researcher to work with
Dr. Jonathan Shapiro at Manchester on connectionist modelling and
analysis. The second post is for a graduate researcher to assist
Professor Graham Hitch with the psychological experiments.

Both post can begin as soon as possible and run through December 1995.
Applicants for the modelling post should have expertise in computational
and mathematical aspects of connectionism and a Ph.D. in a relevant
subject.  The salary range is 15,221 - 16,629 U.K. pounds based on age
and experience.  Applicants for the experimental post should have a first
degree in psychology, and interests in memory and cognition. The salary
range is 13,632 - 15,221 U.K.  pounds.  To apply for either post, send
curriculum vita and the names and addresses of two professional referees
to the address below. For further information, you may also write to the
address below.

- -------------------------------------------------------------------------


        Jonathan Shapiro
        Computer Science Dept
        University of Manchester
        Oxford Road
        Manchester M13 9PL
        United Kingdom.


        Phone:  [phone]
        Fax:    [phone]
        E-mail: [e-mail]


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Subject: Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA)
From:    Lester Ingber <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 23 Apr 93 12:10:01 -0800

========================================================================
Adaptive Simulated Annealing (ASA)

To get on or off blind-copy ASA e-mailings, just send an e-mail to
[e-mail] with your request.
________________________________________________________________________


I have updated the Netlib and Statlib Very Fast Simulated Reannealing
(VFSR) code, now at version 9.4, to this release of ASA.  The code
has substantially evolved since its first form in 1987 through its
public release in Nov 92, and this name change reflects this.

                NETLIB (compressed share file)
Interactive:
        ftp research.att.com
        [login as netlib, your_login_name as password]
        cd opt
        binary
        get asa.Z
Email:
        mail [e-mail] [AT&T Bell Labs, NJ, USA]
        mail [e-mail] [U Wollongong, NSW, Australia]
and send the one-line message
        send asa from opt
(It may take a week or so for the code in research.att.com to propagate
to the other netlib sites.)

                STATLIB (uncompressed share file)
Interactive:
        ftp lib.stat.cmu.edu
        [login as statlib, your_login_name as password]
        cd general
        get asan
Email:
        mail [e-mail]
and send the one-line message
        send asan from general

If you do not have ftp access, get information on the FTPmail service
by sending the word "help" as a message to [e-mail].
If you receive ASA via e-mail, then first `uudecode mailfile',
(where mailfile may be a synthesis of several files) to get asa.Z,
and then follow the previous directions.

If this is not convenient, and if your mailer can handle large files,
I directly can send you the code or papers you require via e-mail.
(I have placed a file ingber.tar.Z of papers in ftp.uu.net:/tmp which
can be retrieved via anonymous ftp.)  Sorry, I cannot assume the task
of mailing out hardcopies of code or papers.

Lester
========================================================================

|| Prof. Lester Ingber                                               ||
|| Lester Ingber Research                                            ||
|| P.O. Box 857                                                      ||
|| McLean, VA  22101                EMail: [e-mail] ||


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Subject: The Giant Brain Museum
From:    Mark O'Dell <[e-mail]>
Date:    Fri, 23 Apr 93 16:26:07 -0800


                        The Giant Brain Museum

        The organizing committee members have gathered together to
promote understanding of the brain.  They hope to construct a giant
walk-through brain museum to be useful to experts while appealing to
everyone, including children.

The committee members are:

Marvin Adelson, Prof. of Architecture & Urban Planning, UCLA
Joseph E. Bogen, Clin. Prof. of Neurological Surgery, USC
Marian Diamond, Director, Lawrence Hall of Science, UCB
Frank O. Gehry, Fellow, Amer. Instit. of Architecture
John Hagar, Attorney at Law
Robert B. Lewis, Project Director
Arnold Scheibel, Director, Brain Research Instit., UCLA

Anyone interested in this project, please send your paper mail address to:

                Giant Brain
                PO Box 50566
                Pasadena, CA
                91115
                USA

or email your paper mail address to me & I will deliver it to the organizers.


Please do not send email without a paper mail address; I am only posting.


Mark O'Dell
[e-mail]



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Subject: Image Texture Modeling
From:    Badri Roysam <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 26 Apr 93 14:13:06 -0500

[[ Editor's Note: I am curious about what the general/conventional
methods of image analysis have to say about texture.  Can ANNs be used
for tractable texture problems? -PM ]]

I would be very interested in knowing of any papers involving the
modeling of image texture using NNs.

Thanks,

Badri Roysam ([e-mail])
Assistant Professor, ECSE Department,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180-3590


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Subject: Re: Brain Usage
From:    Ken Laws <[e-mail]>
Date:    Mon, 26 Apr 93 22:29:55 -0800


Hypothesis: The more you know, the easier it is to learn more (of similar
material).  E.g., the more languages you know, the easier it is to learn
another.  (Is this true?)  The more math you know, the easier it is to
explore one more branch.

Corollary: The limitation on knowledge capacity is primarily
due to learning rate (and a finite life span), at least in
cultures with adequate libraries.  ("Primitive" cultures
probably pass along similar amounts of knowledge through
oral history, environmental awareness, and gossip.)

Observation 1: Some people spend a lot more time learning than others.
Scholars and shamen, for instance.  If they learn ten times as much as
others, the others might be said to use only 10% of their capacity.

Observation 2: There are savants -- not always idiot savants -- who can
multiply large numbers or memorize complex music.  Such abilities are
sometimes associated with cross-connected sensory paths (such as the
ability to "see" sounds or "taste" colors), so these may not represent
normal human brains.  (I hypothesize that the crossed connections
increase the dimensionality of feature space, increasing vector
separability.)  Assuming that savant or prodigious abilities are within
all of us, though, we might again guess that we typically use only some
small fraction of our processing power.  Say 10%.  There might be a
trade-off between representational capacity and processing capacity, but
evidence would suggest otherwise: chess skill, for instance, does not
seem to interact with language ability or other forms of knowledge and
processing.  Combining the two estimates, then, we can say that few
humans approach 1% of their potential.

Observation 3: The previous result ignores temporal limitations.  Even if
it were possible to develop one skill after another to the level of a
prodigy, a lifetime is too short to do so.  I can imagine a person
tutored constantly throughout life being able to develop
professional-level skills in no more than about ten disciplines.  Perhaps
interactive multimedia software will give us another order of magnitude,
but I am inclined to believe that faster learning of multiple, unrelated
subjects also means faster forgetting.  I don't believe that I could be
more than ten times as competent as I am (or will be in old age), no
matter how much effort I put into it.

Conclusion: Ten percent seems about right for intellectually active
people, one percent for the intellectually lazy.  Whether the brain could
hold more is moot since the input channel is so limited.  If it is true
that the more you know, the more you can learn, and if knowledge is
"continuous" and "everywhere dense," there is no meaningful limit on
brain capacity.

                                        -- Ken Laws
                                           [e-mail]

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Subject: Brain Usage
From:    Mark Burrell <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 27 Apr 93 10:51:00 +0000


Although not my field, I enjoyed reading the discussion on brain usage
and thought I would respond with a quick thought (brain usage?)

I've just put down the novel 'The Turing Option' by Harry Harrison and
Marvin Minsky - having been drawn to it by the name 'Turing' and then
'Minsky'.

In the novel the hero (an AI specialist) lives through a major brain
operation and ends up developing true AI. (This is the superduper
abstract).  The threads of 'intelligence' and 'AI' are well and truly
woven together in an enjoyable piece of fiction.

Anyway, back to 'brain usage' - what has Minsky to say on the subject?

Mark Burrell


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Subject: brain usage
From:    [e-mail] (Steven L. Speidel)
Date:    Tue, 27 Apr 93 09:39:09 -0800

A physician commented recently that alzheimer-like behavioral problems
seem sometimes to be correlated with head injury earlier in life, as
though the person has lost his/her reserve of neurons in some area of the
brain and therefore aging of the remaining functional ones becomes an
intractable problem for the local network.

Steve Speidel
[e-mail]




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Subject: Savants
From:    [e-mail]
Date:    Tue, 27 Apr 93 20:21:42 -0700

[[ Editor's Note: See also Ken Laws' message elsewhere in this Digest -PM ]]

I am new to this group so this may have been discussed before but
here goes anyway...

In every generation there seems to be a percentage of people gifted with
magnificient abilities, be it computational, musical, or other.  We have
all heard about these savants.  One such person recently computed the
cube root of a 200 digit number in Texas.  When asked how they accomplish
such feats, they cannot give an answer (it's probably like asking us how
it is we can learn to communicate so easily as children -- it just
happens).  So what's going on here?  Well, I think that these savants
carry a special gene which allocates or activates a part of the mind
specifically for the purpose (of computation, music, etc) and that they
have a neural network devoted to the task already built in.  Thus, they
cannot explain how they accomplish the tasks anymore than we can explain
how it is we can quickly process visual information so efficiently.  If
someone was able to construct a neural network to perform similar feats,
it might lend credence to the theory.  Any takers?  :)

- -Ed Carstens
[e-mail]



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Subject: references request
From:    Alfonso Pitarque Gracia <[e-mail]>
Date:    Tue, 27 Apr 93 11:45:16 +0000

[[ Editor's Note: Perhaps the announced bibliography in the message
following this one might be a good starting place? -PM ]]

Could anyone send me some references/bibliography about the relationship
between logic systems/automatic proof theory and neural
networks/connectionism?. I am a philosopher who is working about this
theme.

Thanks in advance,

Alfonso Pitarque
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Alfonso Pitarque
Facultad de Psicologia
Universidad de Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibanez, 21
46010 Valencia (Spain)
e-mail:[e-mail]
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Subject: Bibliography available
From:    Ron Sun <[e-mail]>
Date:    Wed, 28 Apr 93 10:30:55 -0600

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 Bibliography Available
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 A compiled bibliography of connectionist models with symbolic processing
is available in neuroprose now.  This bibliography will be included in:

  R.Sun and L.Bookman. (eds.)
  Computational Architectures Integrating Neural and Symbolic Processes.
  Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1993.

Thanks to all those who contributed.
Any further suggestions and additions are also welcome.


To get a copy of the bibliography, use FTP as follows:

        unix> ftp archive.cis.ohio-state.edu (or 128.146.8.52)
        Name: anonymous
        Password:
        ftp> cd pub/neuroprose
        ftp> binary
        ftp> get sun.nn-sp-bib.ps.Z
        ftp> quit
        unix> uncompress sun.nn-sp-bib.ps.Z
        unix> lpr sun.nn-sp-bib.ps (or however you print postscript)


* As usual, no hardcopy available. Sorry.







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