The pre-Conference Tutorials were held at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on Monday, December 3, 2007.
The Tutorials provided a choice of six two-hour tutorials by leading scientists. The topics spanned a wide range of subjects including Neuroscience, Learning Algorithms and Theory, Bioinformatics, Image Processing, and Data Mining.
Both slides and videos from the Tutorials are available below by clicking the Tutorial title or by clicking the icons to the right of the title. All the Tutorial videos except "Structured Prediction" are in two parts. If you would prefer to download the entire collection of movies and slides for local viewing (1.1 GB), then choose one of the following: tar.gz format or zip format.
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| Sunday | |
|---|---|
| 4:00 - 9:00pm | Registration |
| Monday | |
| 7:30 - 9:00am | Breakfast |
| 8:00am - 6:00pm | Registration |
| 9:30 - 11:30am |
Michael Lewicki Sensory Coding and Hierarchical Representations |
| 9:30 - 11:30am |
Robert Schapire Theory and Applications of Boosting |
| 11:30am - 1:00pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 3:00pm |
Leon Bottou, Andrew Moore Learning Using Many Examples |
| 1:00 - 3:00pm |
Tomaso Poggio Visual Recognition in Primates and Machines |
| 3:30 - 5:30pm |
Geoffrey Hinton Deep Belief Nets |
| 3:30 - 5:30pm |
Ben Taskar Structured Prediction |
The schedule was last modified on 2007-12-14 12:19 PST