Neural Information Processing Systems Conference

 

The NIPS Conference features a single track program, with contributions from large number of intellectual communities.  Presentation topics include learning algorithms and architectures, learning theory, neuroscience,cognitive science, vision,speech, and signal processing, reinforcement learning and control, implementations, and diverse applications.  All papers have been rigorously reviewed (with a 30%acceptance rate).  The Conference is preceeded by one day of tutorials and is followed by two days of workshop sessions in nearby Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

 

 

 

Tuesday, December 9 and Wednesday, December 10

 

8:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Sessions

2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Sessions

1:00 pm – 6:00 pm Poster Setup and Preview

 

Poster Sessions and

Demonstration Sessions

7:30 pm – 12:00 am

 

Thursday, December 11

 

8:30 am – 12:00 pm Sessions

 

Invited Speakers

 

Sydney Brenner, The Salk Institute

Nature's Gift to Science

 

Anders Dale, Harvard University

Relating Brain Imaging Signals to Biophysical Models of Neuronal Circuits

 

Michale Fee, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies

Time and Sequence in the Brain:  Insights from a Songbird Vocal Control

 

Marc Mezard, Université de Paris Sud

Analytic and Algorithmic Solutions of Random Satisfiability Problems

 

Elissa Newport, University of Rochester

Statistical Language Learning in Human Infants and Adults

 

David Salesin, University of Washington and Microsoft Research

The Need for Machine Learning in Computer Graphics