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                     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
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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 Tamás 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
  Tülay 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           Hervé 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