NIPS 2005 – Program Highlights

 

Tutorials

Monday, December 5, 2005:

 

Session I:  9:30 – 11:30

Lawrence Saul

Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

Spectral Methods for Dimensionality Reduction

Satinder Singh

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Michigan

Reinforcement Learning in Artificial Intelligence:  Learning, Planning and Knowledge Representation

Session 2:  1:00 - 3:00 pm

Stuart Russell and Brian Milch

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

First-Order Probabilistic Languages:  Into the Unknown

Bruno Olshausen

Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and Center for Neuroscience, UC Davis

 Redwood Neuroscience Institute

Natural Scene Statistics and Biological Vision:  From Pixels to Percepts

Session 3:  3:30 - 5:30 pm

Michael I. Jordan

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

Nonparametric Bayesian Methods:  Dirichlet Processes, Chinese Restaurant Processes

and All That

Nancy Kanwisher and Frank Tong

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts

Institute of Technology; Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

Reading Brains:  fMRI Studies of Human Vision

 

 

Conference

Monday (evening) through Thursday (noon)

December 5 – 8, 2005

 

Invited Speakers

 

Urs Hölzle

Google

Petabyte Processing Made Easy

Tuesday, December 6 – 8:30 to 9:30 am

 

Alessandro Vespignani

School of Informatics, Department of Physics and Center for Biocomplexity,

Indiana University

Evolution and Structure of the Internet

Wednesday, December 7 – 8:30 to 9:30 am

 

György Buzsáki

Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University

Oscillations Organize Cell Assemblies

Wednesday, December 7 – 2:00 to 3:00 pm

 

Jim Hudspeth

Laboratory of Sensory Neuroscience, Rockefeller University

Making an Effort to Listen: Mechanical Amplification by Myosin Molecules and Ion Channels in Hair Cells of the Inner Ear

Thursday, December 8 – 8:30 to 9:30 am

 

Christos H. Papadimitriou

Computer Science Division, University of California at Berkeley

Games, Algorithims and Networks

Thursday December 8 – 11:00 to noon

 

Demonstrations

 

Monday and Tuesday, December 5 – 6, 2005

 

Poster Sessions

 

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

December 5 – 8, 2005

 

Workshops

 

Friday, December 9, and Saturday, December 10, 2005

The Westin Resort and Spa

Whistler, B.C., Canada