* 1995 IEEE WORKSHOP ON * * * * NEURAL NETWORKS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING * * * * August 31 -- September 2, 1995, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA * * Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society * * (In cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council) * Invited Speakers include: Vladimir Vapnik, AT&T Bell Labs. Michael I. Jordan, MIT. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Thanks to the sponsorship of IEEE Signal Processing Society, the co-sponsorship of IEEE Neural Network Council, the fifth of a series of IEEE Workshops on Neural Networks for Signal Processing will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday 8/31 -- Saturday 9/2, 1995. Papers are solicited for, but not limited to, the following topics: ++ APPLICATIONS: Image, speech, communications, sensors, medical, adaptive filtering, OCR, and other general signal processing and pattern recognition topics. ++ THEORIES: Generalization and regularization, system identification, parameter estimation, new network architectures, new learning algorithms, and wavelets in NNs. ++ IMPLEMENTATIONS: Software, digital, analog, hybrid technologies, parallel processing. DETAILS FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS Prospective authors are invited to submit 5 copies of extended summaries of no more than 6 pages. The top of the first page of the summary should include a title, authors' names, affiliations, address, telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address if any. Camera-ready full papers of accepted proposals will be published in a hard-bound volume by IEEE and distributed at the workshop. For further information, please contact Marney Smyth (Tel.) (617) 253 0547, (Fax) (617) 253 2964 (e-mail) marney@ai.mit.edu. We plan to use the World Wide Web (WWW) for posting further announcements on NNSP95 such as: submitted papers status, final program, hotel information etc. You can use MOSAIC and access URL site: http://www.cdsp.neu.edu. If you do not have access to WWW use anonymous ftp to site ftp.cdsp.neu.edu and look under the directory /pub/NNSP95. Please send paper submissions to: Prof. Elias S. Manolakos IEEE NNSP'95 409 Dana Research Building Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA Phone: (617) 373-3021, Fax: (617) 373-4189 ************************Please Take Note******************************** A limited amount of financial assistance is available for participants whose papers are accepted for the Workshop. If you wish to apply for financial assistance, please submit a C.V. and brief summary of the reasons why you want to participate in the NNSP95 Workshop, when submitting your paper. Financial assistance awards will not be made until after the acceptance date of April 21, 1995. Please submit hard copy (NOT email) applications for Financial Assistance, along with a copy of your paper, to Dr. Federico Girosi at the address below. *********************************************************************** ******************* * IMPORTANT DATES * ******************* Extended summary received by: February 17 Notification of acceptance: April 21 Photo-ready accepted papers received by: May 22 Advanced registration received before: June 2 GENERAL CHAIRS Federico Girosi Center for Biological and Computational Learning andd Artificial Intelligence Laboratory MIT, E25-201 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: (617)253-0548 Fax: (617)258-6287 email: girosi@ai.mit.edu John Makhoul BBN Systems and Technologies 70 Fawcett Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel: (617)873-3332 Fax: (617)873-2534 email: makhoul@bbn.com PROGRAM CHAIR Elias S. Manolakos Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center for Research and Graduate Studies Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. 409 Dana Research Building Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 Tel: (617)373-3021 Fax: (617)373-4189 email: elias@cdsp.neu.edu FINANCE CHAIR LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Judy Franklin Mary Pat Fitzgerald, MIT GTE Laboratories email: marypat@ai.mit.edu email: jfranklin@gte.com PUBLICITY CHAIR PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Marney Smyth Elizabeth J. Wilson CBCL, MIT Raytheon Co. email: marney@ai.mit.edu email: bwilson@sud2.ed.ray.com TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joshua Alspector John Makhoul Charles Bachmann Alice Chiang Elias Manolakos A. Constantinides P. Mathiopoulos Lee Giles Nahesan Niranjan Federico Girosi Tomaso Poggio Lars Kai Hansen Jose Principe Yu-Hen Hu Wojtek Przytula Jenq-Neng Hwang John Sorensen Bing-Huang Juang Andreas Stafylopatis Shigeru Katagiri John Vlontzos George Kechriotis Raymond Watrous Stephanos Kollias Christian Wellekens Sun-Yuan Kung Ron Williams Gary M. Kuhn Barbara Yoon Richard Lippmann Xinhua Zhuang