Special Session at IJCNN'99, Washington, DC

Asim Roy (Asim.Roy@asu.edu)
Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:33:55 -0700 (US Mountain Standard Time)

This is to announce that there will be a special
session/panel discussion at IJCNN'99 (International Joint
Conference on Neural Networks) in Washington, D. C. this
July on the topic:

"BRAINS INTERNAL MECHANISMS - THE NEED FOR A NEW PARADIGM."

The following persons will be on the panel:

1) DAN ALKON, Laboratory of Adaptive Systems, National
Institutes of Health
2) GEORGE CYBENKO, Dartmouth College
3) WALTER FREEMAN, University of California, Berkeley
4) MICHAEL HASSELMO, Harvard University
5) DAN LEVINE, University of Texas, Arlington
6) GEN MATSUMOTO, Brain Science Institute, Riken, Japan
7) JOHN TAYLOR, King's College, London
8) ASIM ROY, Arizona State University, Tempe

This is the third panel discussion at these conferences on
the fundamental ideas of connectionist learning. The first
panel discussion at ICNN'97 in Houston, Texas was on the
issue of: "CONNECTIONIST LEARNING: IS IT TIME TO RECONSIDER
THE FOUNDATIONS?" The second panel discussion at WCCI'98
(World Congress on Computational Intelligence) in
Anchorage, Alaska, was on the issue: "COULD THERE BE
REAL-TIME, INSTANTANEOUS LEARNING IN THE BRAIN?"

Further information about IJCNN'99 is available at the
conference web site:
www.cas.american.edu/~medsker/ijcnn99/ijcnn99.html.

Asim Roy
Arizona State University