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Schedule

Tutorials (December 3, 2007)

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
  • Slides:Slides (PDF)
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A
  • Video:Flash Movie Session B
Michael Lewicki
Sensory Coding and Hierarchical Representations
9:30 - 11:30am
  • Slides:Slides (PDF)
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A
  • Video:Flash Movie Session B
Robert Schapire
Theory and Applications of Boosting
11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 - 3:00pm
  • Slides:Slides
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A
  • Video:Flash Movie Session B
Leon Bottou, Andrew Moore
Learning Using Many Examples
1:00 - 3:00pm
  • Slides:Slides (PDF)
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A
  • Video:Flash Movie Session B
Tomaso Poggio
Visual Recognition in Primates and Machines
3:30 - 5:30pm
  • Slides:Slides (PowerPoint)
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A
  • Video:Flash Movie Session B
Geoffrey Hinton
Deep Belief Nets
3:30 - 5:30pm
  • Slides:Slides (PowerPoint)
  • Video:Flash Movie Session A & B
Ben Taskar
Structured Prediction

The schedule was last modified on 2007-12-14 12:19 PST