The NIPS*2001 web site (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Web/Groups/NIPS) has been down for a few days but the problem has now been fixed. Apologies and thanks to the people who notified us about this. On the positive side: we've had nearly 30 percent more submissions than last year, so it should be an even better conference than ever. ========================================== Neural Information Processing Systems Natural and Synthetic Monday, Dec. 3 -- Saturday, Dec. 8, 2001 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Whistler Ski Resort ========================================== Invited speakers: Barbara Finlay -- How brains evolve, and the consequences for computation Alison Gopnik -- Babies and Bayes-nets: Causal inference and theory-formation in children, chimps, scientists and computers Jon M. Kleinberg -- Decentralized network algorithms: Small-world phenomena and the dynamics of information Tom Knight -- TBA Judea Pearl -- Causal inference as an exercise in computational learning Shihab Shamma -- Common principles in auditory and visual processing Tutorials: Luc Devroye -- Nonparametric density estimation: VC to the rescue Daphne Koller & Nir Friedman -- Learning Bayesian networks from data Shawn Lockery -- Chemotaxis: Gradient ascent by simple living organisms and their neural networks. Christopher Manning -- Probabilistic linguistics and probabilistic models of natural language processing Bernhard Scholkopf -- SVM and Kernel methods Sebastian Thrun -- Probabilistic robotics
