***************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2000 IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing December 11-13, 2000, Sydney, Australia (Early Registration: September 15, 2000) Sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society In cooperation with the IEEE Neural Networks Council ***************************************************************** Thanks to the sponsorship of IEEE Signal Processing Society and the IEEE Neural Networks Council, the tenth of a series of IEEE workshops on Neural Networks for Signal Processing will be held at the University of Sydney, Australia December 11-13, 2000. The workshop will feature a high quality technical program, and three invited plenary speeches presented by experts in the field: - Professor Tamás Roska (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) Signal Processing via Neural Networks become practical - via Analogic TeraOPS Visual Microprocessor Chips. - Dr. David Fogel (Natural Selection, Inc.) Evolving Models for Signal Processing. - Dr. Brian Ferguson (Defence Science and Technology Organisation) Signal Processing Applications for Submarines, Surveillance and Survival. In addition, Professor Sun-Yan Kung of Princeton University will present a joint keynote speech on "Adaptive Techniques for Intelligent Internet Multimedia Communication". to the workshop and the First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia. The workshop is being held in conjuction with the First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (2000 International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing). The public are cordially invited to participate in this important event. Early registration can be made before September 15, 2000 through our homepage: http://eivind.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2000/ For further information, please contact the NNSP 2000 Organizing Committee at: TEL: +61 2 9351 5642 Fax: +61 2 9351 3847 or Email: nnsp2000org@eivind.imm.dtu.dk ORGANIZATION Honorary Chair Bernard WIDROW Stanford University General Chairs Ling GUAN University of Sydney email: ling@ee.usyd.edu.au Kuldip PALIWA Griffith University email: kkp@shiva2.me.gu.edu.au Program Chairs Tülay ADALI University of Maryland, Baltimore County email: adali@umbc.edu Jan LARSEN Technical University of Denmark email: jl@imm.dtu.dk Finance Chair Raymond Hau-San WONG University of Sydney email: hswong@ee.usyd.edu.au Proceedings Chairs Elizabeth J. WILSON Raytheon Co. email: bwilson@ed.ray.com Scott C. DOUGLAS Southern Methodist University email: douglas@seas.smu.edu Publicity Chair Marc van HULLE Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven email: marc@neuro.kuleuven.ac.be Registration and Local Arrangements Stuart PERRY Defence Science and Technology Organisation email: Stuart.Perry@dsto.defence.gov.au Europe Liaison Jean-Francois CARDOSO ENST email: cardoso@sig.enst.fr America Liaison Amir ASSADI University of Wisconsin at Madison email: ahassadi@facstaff.wisc.edu Asia Liaison Andrew BACK Katestone Scientific email: andrew.back@usa.net PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Amir Assadi Yianni Attikiouzel John Asenstorfer Andrew Back Geoff Barton Hervé Bourlard Andy Chalmers Zheru Chi Andrzej Cichocki Tharam Dillon Tom Downs Hsin Chia Fu Suresh Hangenahally Marwan Jabri Haosong Kong Shigeru Katagiri Anthony Kuh Yi Liu Fa-Long Luo David Miller Christophe Molina M Mohammadian Erkki Oja Soo-Chang Pei Jose Principe Ponnuthurai Suganthan Ah Chung Tsoi Marc Van Hulle A.N. Venetsanopoulos Yue Wang Wilson Wen