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Date: Tue Jun 01 1993 - 20:46:12 UTC
WORLD CONGRESS ON NEURAL NETWORKS - WCNN '93
1993 ANNUAL MEETING of the INTERNATIONAL NEURAL NETWORK SOCIETY (INNS)
Oregon Convention Center - Portland, Oregon, USA
July 11 - July 15, 1993
COOPERATING SOCIETIES:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
American Mathematical Society
American Physical Society
American Psychological Society
Association for Behavioral Analysis
Classification Society of North America
Cognitive Science Society
European Neural Network Society
International Fuzzy Systems Association
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Neural Networks Council
Japanese Neural Network Society
Optical Society of America
Society for Manufacturing Engineers
Society for Mathematical Biology
Society for Mathematical Psychology
Society for Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
Below are listed 71 tutorial, plenary, and invited speakers;
the oral sessions; the registration form; and additional information.
The program will offer 500 contributed oral and poster presentations on
all topics of the oral sessions, as well as Special Interest Group
meetings, receptions, and related meeting services.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE
SUNDAY, JULY 11, 1993
TUTORIAL SESSIONS 8 AM-5 PM
A. COGNITIVE SCIENCE - Robert Desimone, 8-10 AM and 10 AM-12 PM
B. STRUCTURAL AND MATHEMATICAL APPROACHES TO SIGNAL PROCESSING - S.Y. Kung,
10 AM-12 PM and 3-5 PM
C. ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY - Gail Carpenter, 8-10 AM and 1-3 PM
D. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORK THEORY - Robert Hecht-Nielsen,
8-10 AM and 10 AM-12 PM
E. COGNITIVE SCIENCE - David Rumelhart, 10 AM-12 PM
F. NEURAL FUZZY SYSTEMS - Fred Watkins, 1-3 PM and 3-5 PM
G. NEUROBIOLOGY AND CHAOS - Walter Freeman, 10 AM-12 PM and 3-5 PM
H. NEURAL CONTROL AND ROBOTICS - Michael Kuperstein, 1-3 PM and 3-5 PM
I. NEURAL COMPUTATION AND VLSI - Eric Schwartz, 10 AM-12 PM and 1-3 PM
J. BIOLOGICAL VISION - V.S. Ramachandran, 8-10 AM and 1-3 PM
K. SUPERVISED LEARNING - Hal White, 8-10 AM and 1-3 PM
5-6 PM RECEPTION
6-7 PM OPENING CEREMONY
7-8 PM PLENARY
-Wolf Singer, "Coherence as an Organizing Principle of Cortical Function"
MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993
8 AM-12:10 PM
BIOLOGICAL VISION
-Robert Sekuler, "Making Sense of a Thousand Points of Light: Feats Performed
by the Biological Motion System"
-Ennio Mingolla, "Neural Dynamics of First and Second Order Motion Detection by
Transient Mechanisms"
APPLICATIONS
-Judith Dayhoff, "Temporal and Molecular Structures in Neural Systems"
-Robert Hecht-Nielsen, "Data Neutronium Optimal Coordinate Systems for Data
Manifolds"
1:30-5:40 PM
INTELLIGENT NEURAL SYSTEMS
-Daniel S. Levine, "A Gated Dipole Architecture for Multi-Drive,
Multi-Attribute Decision Making"
-Stephen Grossberg, "Learning, Recognition, Reinforcement, Attention, and
Timing in a Thalamo-Cortico-Hippocampal Model"
NEURAL FUZZY SYSTEMS
-Walter C. Daugherty, "A Partially Self-Training System for the Protein Folding
Problem"
-Rod Taber, "Coding the Fuzzy Cognitive Map as a Rule Base"
6-8 PM PLENARIES
-Bart Kosko, "Neural Fuzzy Systems"
-Kumpati Narendra, "Intelligent Control Using Neural Networks"
SOCIETY FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING SYMPOSIUM ON NEURAL NETWORKS IN
MANUFACTURING, 8 AM-5 PM
8-10 AM OVERVIEW
- Bernard Widrow, "Neural Controls"
- Ken Marko, "Neural Networks in Manufacturing"
10:30 AM-12:30 PM NEURAL NETWORK APPLICATIONS TO MANUFACTURING
- Lee Feldkamp, "Neural Network Approaches to Process Control - The Bioreactor
Benchmark Problem"
- Andrew Moore, "Memory Based Algorithms for Learning Control: Some Real World
Cases"
- Jerry Maiers, "Fuzzy Applications in Manufacturing - Case Studies"
- Zhibong Zhang and Dazong Wang, "Estimating Subjective Ratings of Vehicle
Control Systems from Physical Data Using A Neural Network"
1:30-3:30 PM NEURAL NETWORKS FOR PROCESS CONTROL
- Tariq Samad, "Neurocontrol for Industrial Processes: A Perspective"
- William Staib, "The Intelligent Arc Furnace (TM): Neural Networks
Revolutionize Steelmaking"
- Jim Keeler, "Predicting and Controlling Chaotic Chemical Reactions with
Neural Network Models"
- Karlene A. Kosanovich and Lichael J. Piovoso, "Neural Networks for Chemical
Process Control - An Overview with Examples"
- Dejan Sobajic, "Intelligent Pid Scheduling for Stabilization of Power
System Transients"
4-6 PM NEURAL NET INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR MANUFACTURING
- Hilmi Al'Kamhawi and Steven Le Clair, "Memory Driven Design"
- Steven Ruegsegger, "Intelligent Planning for Computer-Controlled Inspection"
- Ronald Cass, Kambiz Komelyi, and Stephen Gregory, "Neural Network Systems
for Modeling in Product Design"
- Scott Smith, Richard Escobedo, and Thomas Caudell, "An Industrial Strength
Neural Network Application"
TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1993
8 AM-12:10 PM COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
-Michael I. Posner, "Tracing Network Processes in Real Time with Scalp
Electrodes"
-Paul Gochin, "Modeling the Representation of Shape in the Primate Visual
System"
ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY
-James A. Anderson, "Programming an Associative Memory"
-J.G. Taylor, "Forms of Memory"
1:30-5:40 PM APPLICATIONS
UNSUPERVISED LEARNING
-Gail A. Carpenter, "Distributed Outstar Learning and the Rules of Synaptic
Transmission"
-Erkki Oja, "Nonlinear PCA: Algorithms and Applications"
LOCAL CIRCUIT NEUROBIOLOGY
-Thomas P. Vogl, "From Electrophysiology to a Stable Associative Learning
Algorithm"
-James C. Houk, "Spatiotemporal Patterns of Activity in an In Vitro Recurrent
Network"
6-8 PM PLENARIES
-Stephen Grossberg, "3D Vision and Figure-Ground Pop-Out"
-Federico Faggin, "Solving Problems with Neural Networks"
INTERNATIONAL FUZZY SYSTEMS ASSOCIATION SYMPOSIUM ON FUZZY LOGIC, 1:30-5 PM
-1:30-2 PM Lotfi Zadeh, "Soft Computing, Fuzzy Logic, and the Calculus of
Fuzzy Graphs"
-2-2:30 PM Ronald Yager, "Toward a Unified Approach to Aggregation in Fuzzy
and Neural Systems"
-2:30-3 PM Paul Werbos, "Elastic Fuzzy Logic: A Better Way to Combine Neural
and Fuzzy Capabilities"
-3-3:30 PM George Klir, "On Measures of Conflict Among Set-Valued Statements"
-4-4:30 PM Hideyuki Takagi, "Neural Network and Genetic Algorithm Techniques
for Fuzzy Systems"
-4:30-5 PM John Yen, "Design Issues of Reinforcement-Based Self Learning Fuzzy
Control"
WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1993
8 AM-12:10 PM SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
-Michael A. Cohen, "Recent Results in Neural Models of Speech and Language
Perception and Recognition"
-Harold Szu, "Spatiotemporal Chaos Information Processing in Neural Networks"
ROBOTICS AND CONTROL
-Michael Kuperstein, "Neural Networks that Create their Own Goals with Growth
Cycles"
-Allen Waxman, "Rats, Robots, Monkeys and Dogs: Neural Pathways in Robot
Intelligence"
SUPERVISED LEARNING I
-Paul J. Werbos, "Supervised Learning: Can We Escape from its Local Optimum?"
-Michael P. Perrone, "Learning from What's Been Learned: Supervised Learning in
Multi-Neural Network Systems"
1:30-5:40 PM MACHINE VISION
-Rama Chellappa, "Neural Networks for Image Understanding"
-Kunihiko Fukushima, "Improvement of the Neocognitron and the Selective
Attention Model"
SUPERVISED LEARNING II
5:45-7 PM RECEPTION
7-8 PM GOVERNMENT PANEL
8-9 PM SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP SESSIONS
- Automatic Target Recognition
- Hybrid Intelligence
- Mental Function and Dysfunction
- Others to be announced
THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1993
8 AM-12:10 PM BIOLOGICAL SENSORY-MOTOR CONTROL
-Mitsuo Kawato, "Existence of Inverse Dynamics Model in the Cerebellum"
-Armin Fuchs, "Formation in the Human Brain During Qualitative Changes in
Sensorimotor Coordination"
PATTERN RECOGNITION
-Teuvo Kohonen, "Boosting the Computing Power in Pattern Recognition by
Unconventional Architectures"
-Hussein Youssef, "Comparison of Several Neural Networks in Nonlinear
Dynamic System Modeling"
NEURODYNAMICS
-Shuji Yoshizawa, "Dynamics and Capacity of Neural Models of Associative
Memory"
-Walter J. Freeman, "Chaos in the Brain: Possible Roles in Biological
Intelligence"
1:30-5:40 PM SIGNAL PROCESSING
-S.Y. Kung, "On Training Temporal Neural Networks"
-Bernard Widrow, "Adaptive Signal Processing"
ELECTRO-OPTICAL NEUROCOMPUTERS
-Nabil H. Farhat, "Dense Bifurcating Neuron Arrays Employing Electron Trapping
Materials"
-Dan Hammerstrom, "Whither Electronic Neurocomputing?"
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WCNN '93 REGISTRATION FORM
Before 6/15/93 After 6/15/93 Fee Enclosed
INNS or cooperating
society member US$270 US$350 US$ ________
Society ___________________________ Society member # _______________
Non-members US$370 US$450 US$ ________
Full-Time Student** US$75 US$95 US$ ________
Spouse/Guest US$60 US$70 US$ ________
(2 receptions ONLY)
TUTORIAL REGISTRATION
Members or
non-members US$295 US$345 US$ ________
Students** US$75 US$95 US$ ________
TOTAL: ____________
** Student registration must be accompanied by a letter of verification from
department chairman.
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West Deptford NJ 08096 USA
THERE WILL BE NO REFUNDS FOR CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION AFTER June 1, 1993.
Contact Connie Rebert, Registration Supervisor at 609-845-1720.
For more information on WCNN 1993 contact the INNS offices, 1250 24th Street,
NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037 USA at 202-466-4667 (telephone) or
202-466-2888 (fax).
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