"IRISH MACHINE VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING CONFERENCE - IMVIP'97", and

"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE '97 - AI-97"

University of Ulster, Magee College, 
Wednesday 10 Sept. to Saturday 13 Sept., 1997

Information for both events: http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research

* Surveys and tutorials on industrial vision and imaging in molecular
  biology - David Vernon, Maynooth; Jean-Christophe Olivo, European 
  Molecular Biology Lab Heidelberg.

Keynote speakers include: 

* Anil Jain, University Distinguished  Professor and  Chair of the
  Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University.  His
  research interests include statistical pattern recognition, Markov
  random fields, texture analysis, neural networks, fingerprint
  matching, document image analysis and 3D object recognition. 

* James L Crowley, Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de 
  Grenoble (INPG).  He is coordinator of the European Computer Vision 
  Network (ECVnet), an EC "Network of Excellence" as well as the DG-XII 
  Human  Capital and Mobility  network SMART whose subject is the 
  development of techniques for a mobile autonomous surveillance robot. 

* John McCarthy is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford  University
  and has been called the 'Father of AI' and 'Father of Lisp'.  He is 
  author of "Formalizing Common Sense",  Ablex 1990.  He will speak on 
  'The logic road to human-level AI'.

* Naoyuki Okada is Professor  of Artificial Intelligence at  Kyushu
  Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan.  His research is in the  
  development of agents with integrated intelligence: language association   
  with mind, symbol grounding in perception or motion, fusion of intellect  
  and emotion, and integrated processing of multimedia. He will speak on
  'An integrated system for intellectual emotional systems'

* Walther von Hahn is the 'Father of natural language processing' in 
  Germany.  He is Professor of Computer Science at the University of 
  Hamburg. He will speak on 'Putting together the parts: complex AI 
  systems'.

In addition there will be contributed sessions on:
* Medical image processing and vision
* Image analysis and pattern recognition
* Data analysis
* Vision and robotics
* Artificial life and neural networks
* Hardware and architectures
* Knowledge representation
* Scene analysis and visualization
* Psychology and philosophy
* Video and image compression
* Natural language processing


* Delegates will receive a two-volume 500 page set of Proceedings.
* Streaming video/audio feeds of the Conferences will be available.  
* For travel details, see the 'Click-and-See' map of the city, 
  surroundings and the Magee College campus.