Papers and Past Conferences		Neural Information Processing Systems: Natural and Synthetic
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NOTE				The NIPS*2002 Preproceedings (preliminary-draft papers) are now available.
						Important Dates Tutorials: Dec 9, 2002 Conference: Dec 10, 11, 12 (until noon), 2002 Workshops: Dec 12 (evening reception), 13, 14, 2002 Poster presentations: Dec 10, 11, 2002 Demonstrations: Dec 10, 11, 2002 Camera-ready papers due: January 10 2003 Proceedings available online: March 2003 Proceedings volumes mailed: June 2003
		This Year's Papers
Versions Available		The NIPS 2002 Conference Proceedings, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15, edited by Suzanna Becker, Sebastian Thrun, and Klaus Obermayer, will be available to Conference attendees in three different formats.
		Online Version The NIPS*2002 Preproceedings are now available online, created and maintained by Sebastian Thrun. This consists of nearly all of the preliminary drafts of the NIPS*2002 papers (many of them revised since submission), by the authors' permission. The complete Proceedings containing all final drafts will be available online in March 2003.
		CD-ROM Version A CD-ROM version of the Proceedings will be mailed to each conference attendee in late Spring,2003.
		Printed Version At their option,attendees may purchase the Proceedings in a two-volume soft-cover format for the special Conference rate of $35 (US) by checking the appropriate box on the registration form. This special reduced rate is available only if the purchase is made before or during the Conference. After the Conference, copies of the hardcopy Proceedings may be obtained through: MIT Press Five Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 USA Email: mitpress-orders@mit.edu MIT Press orderline: 1-800-356-0343 Every paper will be allotted up to eight pages in the Proceedings. Camera-ready copy will be due to the Publications Chair, Klaus Obermayer, in early January 2003. Authors of accepted papers will be informed of the precise due date at the Conference.
		Previous Years' Papers
Past Online Proceedings		NIPS*2001 NIPS 14 is available from MIT Press. Papers, BibTeX entries, and full-text searchable scans from this volume are available on-line. NIPS*2000 NIPS 13 is available from MIT Press. Abstracts and papers and BibTeX entries from this volume are available on-line. NIPS*99 NIPS 12 is available from MIT Press. Abstracts and papers from this volume are available on-line. NIPS*98 NIPS 11 is available from MIT Press. Abstracts and (some) papers from this volume are available on-line. NIPS*97 NIPS 10 is available from MIT Press. Abstracts and (some) papers from this volume are available on-line. A. David Redish (dredish@cs.cmu.edu) created and maintained these web pages from 1994 until 1996. L. Douglas Baker (ldbapp+nips@cs.cmu.edu) maintained these web pages from 1997 until 1999. They were maintained in 2000 by L. Douglas Baker and Alexander Gray (agray+nips@cs.cmu.edu), and in 2001 by Alexander Gray and Xin Wang (wangxi@cs.orst.edu ).
Full-text Searching		High-resolution scans of all the papers in all the NIPS volumes from 0 to 13 can be found at http://nips.djvuzone.org. The full text for each paper has also been processed by optical character recognition so that it can be searched. Thanks to Yann LeCun for this contribution.
BibTeX Bibliography		A BibTeX formatted bibliography containing references for all papers in NIPS volumes 3 through 10 is available at http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/docs/ci/bibtex_collection.html or via ftp at ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/texmf/bibtex/. BibTeX files for a number of journals and books can also be found at the site. Thanks to members of the Center for Computational Intelligence, Vienna, for this contribution.
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