Workshops
The post-Conference Workshops will be held at the Westin Resort and Spa in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The Workshops will begin at 6:30 pm on Thursday, December 16 with Registration and an opening Reception. Workshop sessions will begin on Friday, December 17 and continue through Saturday, December 18, ending with a banquet on Saturday evening.
The Workshops provide multi-track intensive sessions on a wide range of topics. The venue and schedule facilitate informality and depth. Please see a list of Workshops below, along with links to further information for each.
Workshop
Schedule
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 |
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6:30pm - 8:30pm |
Reception and Registration |
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Friday, December 17, 2004 |
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7:00am - 11:00am |
Registration |
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7:30am - 10:30am |
Workshop Sessions |
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4:00pm - 7:00pm |
Workshop Sessions |
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Saturday, December 18, 2004 |
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7:30am - 10:30am |
Workshop Sessions |
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4:00pm - 7:00pm |
Workshop Sessions |
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7:30pm - 10:30pm |
Closing Banquet |
Scheduled
Workshops
Friday, December 17, 2004
Organizers: Terry Sejnowski, The Salk Institute and the University of California,
San Diego; Steve Zucker, Yale University
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Workshop on the Neural Mechanisms of Imitation
Organizers: Aude Billard, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California
Towards Brain
Computer Interfacing
Organizers: Guido Dornhege, Fraunhofer FIRST.IDA;
Thilo Hinterberger, University of Tuebingen; Dennis McFarland, NYS Department
of Health; Jose del R Millan, IDIAP Research Institute; Klaus-Robert MŸller,
Fraunhofer FIRST.IDA
Organizers: Nando de Freitas, University of British
Columbia; Daniel Huttenlocher, Cornell
Organizers: Richard Shiffrin, Jason Gold, Indiana
University;
Andrew Cohen,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Florin Cutzu, Indiana University
Organizers: Tue Lehn-Schioler, The Technical
University of Denmark; Samy Bengio, IDIAP; Lars Kai Hansen, The Technical
University of Denmark; Stephane Canu, l'INSA de Rouen
The
Neurobiology of Planning and Deciding: Studies from Many Levels of Brain
Organization
Organizers: Patricia S. Churchland, University of
California, San Diego; Terry Sejnowski, The Salk Institute and the University
of California, San Diego
Calibration
and Probabilistic Prediction in Supervised Learning
Organizers: Rich Caruana, Cornell University; Greg
Grudic, University of Colorado
Activity
Recognition and Discovery
Organizers: Irfan Essa, Georgia Tech; Dieter Fox,
University of Washington
Reinforcement
Learning Benchmarks and Bake-offs
Organizers: Richard S. Sutton, University of Alberta;
Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University
Saturday, December 18, 2004
Interneurons
and Cortical Function: A Fair and Balanced Workshop
Organizers: Bartlett W. Mel, University of Southern
California; Judith A. Hirsch, University of Southern California; Kenneth D.
Miller, University of California
Verification,
Validation, and Testing of Learning Systems
Organizers: Dragos Margineantu, The Boeing Company;
Pramod Gupta, NASA Ames Research Center; Johann Schumann, NASA Ames Research
Center; Michael Drumheller, The Boeing Company; Roman Fresnedo, The Boeing
Company
New
Problems and Methods in Computational Biology
Organizers: Gal Chechik, Department of Computer
Science; Christina Leslie, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia
University; Gunnar Ratsch, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
(Tuebingen) and Fraunhofer FIRST (Berlin); Koji Tsuda, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
(Tuebingen) and AIST Computational Biology Research Center (Tokyo)
Learning in Graphics
and Vision
Organizers:
Radek Grzeszczuk, Intel Research; Aaron Hertzmann, University of Toronto
Reinforcement
Learning and the Brain: Beyond the
Dopamine System
Organizers: Nathaniel D. Daw, University College
London; Samuel McClure, Princeton University
Structured
Data and Representations in Probabilistic Models for Categorization
Organizers: Josh Tenenbaum, MIT; David Danks, Carnegie
Mellon University; Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh; Charles Kemp, MIT;
Amy Perfors, MIT
Learning With
Structured Outputs
Organizers: Gškhan Bakir, MPI; Arthur Gretton, MPI; Thomas Hoffmann, Brown University;
Bernhard Schšlkopf, MPI
Organizers: Alex J. Smola, National ICT Australia;
S V N Vishwanathan, National ICT Australia; Ben Taskar, Stanford University
MIPS --
Music Information Processing Systems
Organizers: Douglas Eck, University of Montreal;
Daniel P. W. Ellis, Columbia University; Ali Taylan Cemgil, University of
Amsterdam; Jean-François Paiement, IDIAP Research Institute
Organizers: Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo;
John Langford, TTI-Chicago; John Shawe-Taylor, Southampton; Bob Williamson,
NICTA