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Neuron Digest   Thursday,  8 Oct 1992
                Volume 10 : Issue 6

Today's Topics:
                        Brain Imaging Conference
         Express Saccades & Attention: BBS Call for Commentators
     Neural Network Session at Fuzzy Theory & Technology Conference
                     Neural Network Workshop - CAIP


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Subject: Brain Imaging Conference
From:    lcl@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Lisa C. Lewis)
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University
Date:    09 Sep 92 03:30:38 +0000


            FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING: Looking at the Mind
                An International Symposium sponsored by
           the Massachusetts Biomedical Research Corporation
             the National Foundation for Brain Research and
      the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiology

Back Bay Hilton, Boston, MA.  Nov. 5 & 6, 1992

Functional neuroimaging is the application of instruments to view the 
changes in physiological state which accompany the work of the brain. It is 
also a window into a deeper understanding of the interaction of the mind 
and the organism which supports it. By assembling together leaders in the 
development of that understanding, the symposium, _Functional Neuroimaging: 
Looking at the Mind_ will provide a forum for considering whether the 
boundaries of physiology and consciousness are impenetrable, or if with the 
tools of functional neuroimaging we are approaching a watershed of 
epistemology.

Topics include:

___Instrumentation for Functional Neuroimaging___
What limits do the tools available to us impose, both on a technological
level and in terms of our filtered perceptions?

___The Brain in Health and Disease___ 
Mapping brain disease based on functional abnormalities through
functional neuroimaging

___Human Sensation and Motor Control___
Characterizing the response of the brain to sensation, and tracing the
activity backwards to look at the physiological states which presage our
movements and our speech.

___Imaging of Cognitive Function___
We can now begin to explore the physiological correlates of sophisticated
behaviors, from music and math to the background processes which give
answers seemingly from nowhere.  Do we handle the components of a complex
task in serial, or parallel?


The attendance fee of $200 includes all meals, a reception, and a tour of
the MGH-NMR center.  Attendance will be strictly limited and handled on a
first come, first served basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

For a detailed program of the conference, either check the posting in
news.announce.conferences, send email to lcl@cs.bu.edu, or simply reply to
this posting with "NMR PROGRAM REQUEST" in the subject line.  For other
inquiries, please contact:


FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING CONFERENCE             or, by e-mail:
MGH Dept. of Radiology                         mcohen@nmr-r.mgh.harvard.edu
Fruit Street
Boston, MA 02114

(617) 726-8395
FAX (617)726-7422

Lisa Caroline Lewis                 Our country, right or wrong.  
lcl@csa.bu.edu      -or-            When right, to be kept right; 
lcl@meceng.coe.northeastern.edu     when wrong, to be put right.
                                     - Carl Schurz, January 17, 1872

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Subject: Express Saccades & Attention: BBS Call for Commentators
From:    Stevan Harnad <harnad@Princeton.EDU>
Date:    Sat, 12 Sep 92 17:33:57 -0500

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming target article by B. Fischer & H.
Weber on express saccadic eye movements and attention. It has been
accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an
international, interdisciplinary journal that provides Open Peer
Commentary on important and controversial current research in the
biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be current BBS
Associates or nominated by a current BBS Associate. To be considered as a
commentator on this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators,
or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send email
to:

harnad@clarity.princeton.edu or harnad@pucc.bitnet or write to: BBS, 20
Nassau Street, #240, Princeton NJ 08542 [tel: 609-921-7771]

To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some
indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your
areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An
electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection by
anonymous ftp according to the instructions that follow after the
abstract.
____________________________________________________________________

               EXPRESS SACCADES AND VISUAL ATTENTION

                    B. Fischer and H. Weber
                    Department Neurophysiology
                    Hansastr. 9
                    D - 78  Freiburg
                    Germany
           aiple@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (c/o Franz Aiple)

KEYWORDS: Eye movements, Saccade, Express Saccade, Vision, Fixation,
Attention, Cortex, Reaction Time, Dyslexia

ABSTRACT: One of the most intriguing and controversial observations in
oculomotor research in recent years is the phenomenon of express saccades
in man and monkey. These are saccades of so extremely short reaction
times (100 ms in man, 70 ms in monkey) that some experts on eye movements
still regard them as artifacts or anticipatory reactions that do not need
any further explanation. On the other hand, some research groups consider
them to be not only authentic but also a valuable means of investigating
the mechanisms of saccade generation, the coordination of vision and eye
movements, and the mechanisms of visual attention.

This target article puts together pieces of experimental evidence in
oculomotor and related research - with special emphasis on the express
saccade - in order to enhance our present understanding of the
coordination of vision, visual attention, and eye movements necessary for
visual perception and cognition.

We hypothethize that an optomotor reflex is responsible for the
occurrence of express saccades, one that is controlled by higher brain
functions of disengaged visual attention and decision making. We describe
a neural network as a basis for more elaborate mathematical models and
computer simulations of the optomotor system in primates.

= --------------------------------------------------------------
To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for
this article, an electronic draft is retrievable by anonymous ftp from
princeton.edu according to the instructions below (the filename is
bbs.fischer). Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just
let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you
feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article.
= -------------------------------------------------------------
   To retrieve a file by ftp from a Unix/Internet site, type either:
ftp princeton.edu
   or
ftp 128.112.128.1
   When you are asked for your login, type:
anonymous
   Enter password as per instructions (make sure to include the specified @),
   and then change directories with:
cd /pub/harnad
   To show the available files, type:
ls
   Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example):
get bbs.fischer
   When you have the file(s) you want, type:
quit

   Certain non-Unix/Internet sites have a facility you can use that is
   equivalent to the above. Sometimes the procedure for connecting to
   princeton.edu will be a two step process such as:

ftp
   followed at the prompt by:
open princeton.edu
  or
open 128.112.128.1

   In case of doubt or difficulty, consult your system manager.

= ----------

   JANET users who do not have an ftp facilty for interactive file
   transfer (this requires a JIPS connection on your local machine -
   consult your system manager if in doubt) can use a similar facility
   available at JANET site UK.AC.NSF.SUN (numeric equivalent
   000040010180), logging in using 'guestftp' as both login and
   password. The online help information gives details of the transfer
   procedure which is similar to the above. The file received on the
   NSF.SUN machine needs to be transferred to your home machine to read
   it, which can be done either using a 'push' command on the NSF.SUN
   machine, or (usually faster) by initiating the file transfer from
   your home machine. In the latter case the file on the NSF.SUN machine
   must be referred to as directory-name/filename (the directory name to
   use being that provided by you when you logged on to UK.AC.NSF.SUN).
   To be sociable (since NSF.SUN is short of disc space), once you have
   received the file on your own machine you should delete the file from
   the UK.AC.NSF.SUN machine.

   This facility is very often overloaded, and an off-line relay
   facility at site UK.AC.FT-RELAY (which is simpler to use in any
   case) can be used as an alternative. The process is almost identical
   to file transfer within JANET, and the general method is illustrated
   in the following example. With some machines, filenames and the
   username need to be placed within quotes to prevent unacceptable
   transposion to upper case (as may apply also to the transfer from
   NSF.SUN described above).

transfer
Send or Fetch: f
>From Remote Filename: princeton.edu:/pub/harnad/bbs.fischer
To Local Filename: bbs.fischer
Remote Sitename: uk.ac.ft-relay
Remote Username: anonymous
Remote Password: [enter your full email address including userid for
                  this, or it won't be accepted]
Queue this request? y


   Or if you wish you can get a listing of the available files, by giving
   the remote filename as:

princeton.edu:(D)/pub/harnad

   Because of traffic delays through the FT-RELAY, still another method
   can sometimes be recommended, which is to use the Princeton bitftp
   fileserver described below. Typically, one sends a mail message of
   the form:

FTP princeton.edu UUENCODE
USER anonymous
LS /pub/harnad
GET /pub/harnad/bbs.fischer
QUIT

   (the line beginning LS is required only if you need a listing of
   available files) to email address BITFTP@EARN.PUCC or to
   BITFTP@EDU.PRINCETON, and receives the requested file in the form of
   one or more email messages.

   [Thanks to Brian Josephson (BDJ10@UK.AC.CAM.PHX) for the above
   detailed UK/JANET instructions; similar special instructions for file
   retrieval from other networks or countries would be appreciated and
   will be included in updates of these instructions.]

= ---

Where the above procedures are not available (e.g. from Bitnet or other
networks), there are two fileservers:
ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com
       and
bitftp@pucc.bitnet
that will do the transfer for you. To one or the
other of them, send the following one line message:

help

for instructions (which will be similar to the above, but will be in
the form of a series of lines in an email message that ftpmail or
bitftp will then execute for you).

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Subject: Neural Network Session at Fuzzy Theory & Technology Conference 
From:    "Dr. S. Kak" <kak@max.ee.lsu.edu>
Date:    Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:23:24 -0600

Papers for the Sessions on Neural Networks at FT&T [First International
Conference on Fuzzy Theory & Technology, October 14-18, 1992, Durham,NC]
General Chair: Professor Paul P. Wang, Dept of Electrical Engrg, Duke
University, Durham, NC 27706

Session 1: October 15, 1992, 215 PM- 355 PM
 
 Chairman : Professor W.A. Porter, Univ of Alabama at Huntsville
  
H. Kim, University of Missouri- Rolla,
 Designing of Reliable Feedforward Neural Networks Based On
Fault-Tolerant Neurons .
  
W.A. Porter, C. Bowden, W. Liu, University of Alabama at Huntsville and
U.S. Army Missile Command,
 Alphabet Character Recognition with a Generalizing Neural Network .
  
V. Kurkova, P.C. Kainen, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and
Industrial Math, Univ of Maryland,
 Fuzzy Orthogonal Dimension and Error-Correcting Classification
by Perceptron Type Networks .
  
G. Georgiou, California State University, San Bernardino,
 Activation Functions for Neural Networks in the Complex Domain .
  
S.C. Kak, LSU,
 A New Learning Algorithm for Feedforward Neural Networks .
 

Session 2: October 16, 1992, 945 AM- 1130 AM
 
 Chairman : Professor George Georgiou, California State University,
San Bernardino
  
S. Saha and J.P. Christensen, LSU,
 Genetic Design of Sparse Neural Networks .
  
H.L. Hiew and C.P. Tsang, Univ of Western Australia,
 An Adaptive Fuzzy System for Modelling Chaos .
  
F. Lin and K. Lee, Santa Clara University and Cirrus Logic,
 A Parallel Computation Network for the Maximum Clique Problem .
  
S. Sivasubramaniam, Acutec, Ft. Lauderdale,
 A Feature Extraction Heuristic for Neural Networks .
  
W.A. Porter, S.X. Zheng, and W. Liu, Univ of Alabama at Huntsville,
 A Neural Controller for Discrete Plants with Unknown Noise .
  
C. Cramer, LSU,
 Pruning Hidden Neurons in the Kak Algorithm .


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Subject: Neural Network Workshop - CAIP
From:    anshu@lexington.rutgers.edu
Date:    Fri, 18 Sep 92 15:31:59 -0500

                CAIP Center, Rutgers University & FAA
                        announces

                IInd NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP

                        presenting

        * The state of the art in Neural Network theory and applications
        * With some of the most eminent people in the field including
          two Nobel laureates and a Field's Medal winner

           (Attendance is limited and on a first-come-first basis)

                           NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP

                         Richard Mammone, Chairman
                

                              Sponsored by

                           FAA Technical Center 
                

                               Hosted by 
                        
                            the Center for 
                Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP)


                          TENTATIVE PROGRAM

                         TUESDAY - THURSDAY

                       27 - 29 OCTOBER, 1992


                  _____________________________________
                   THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
                              RUTGERS
                  ______________________________________

        Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP)
   Frelinghuysen Road - P.O. Box 1390 - Piscataway - New Jersey 08855-1390
                Tel: 908/932-4208  -  FAX: 908/932-4775

        A New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Center




                        Tuesday, 27 October 1992
                       **************************

8:30 a.m.       _____________________Registration; Coffee____________________

8:45 a.m.       Opening Remarks
                Leo T. Powell, FAA Technical Center 
                Richard Mammone - Workshop Chairman,Rutgers University
                
8: 55 a.m.      Neural Networks for Speech Processing and Language
                Session Chairman, Allen Gorin, - AT&T Bell Laboratories

9:00 a.m.       Neural Networks in the Acquisition of Speech by Machine
                Frank Fallside, Cambridge University, U.K.

9:30 a.m.       The Nervous System: Fantasy and Reality
                Nelson Kiang - Massachusetts Eye and Ear

10:10 a.m.      ________________________Coffee Break________________________

10:30 a.m.      Processing of Speech Segments in the Auditory Periphery 
                Oded Ghitza - AT&T Bell Labs

10:50 a.m.      Is There a Role for Neural Networks in Speech Recognition?
                John Bridle - Dragon

11:10 a.m.      Some Relationships Between Artificial Neural Nets and 
                Hidden Markov Models
                Arthur Nadas - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

11:30 p.m.      _____________________________Lunch_______________________

1:30 p.m.       The Neuropsychology of Word Reading: A Connectionist Approach
                David Plaut - Carnegie Mellon University

1:50 p.m.       States Versus Stacks: Representing Grammatical Structure 
                in a Recurrent Neural Network
                Jeffrey Elman - UCSD

2:10 p.m.       Connections and Associations in Language Acquisition
                Naftali Tishby - Hebrew University, Israel

2:30 p.m.       Recurrent Neural Networks and Sequential Machines
                Lee Giles - NEC

2:50 p.m.       _________________________Coffee Break_______________________

3:10 p.m.       A Self-Learning Neural Tree Network for Phoneme Classification
                Mazin Rahim - CAIP Center, Rutgers University

3:30 p.m.       Decision Feedback Learning of Neural Networks
                Fred Juang - AT&T Bell Laboratories

3:50 p.m.       An Experiment in Spoken Language Acquisition
                Allen Gorin, Session Chairman - AT&T Bell Laboratories

4:10 p.m.       Visual Focus of Attention in Language Acquisition
                Ananth Sankar - AT&T Bell Laboratories

4:30 p.m.       Integrating Segmental Neural Nets with Hidden Markov Models for
                Continuous Speech Recognition
                John Makhoul, George Zaualiagkos, Richard Schwartz, 
                Steve Austin - BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA

4:50 p.m.       Panel Discussion - The Future of Neural Nets for Speech 
                Processing
                Steve Levinson, Chairman; John Makhoul, Ester Levine, Naftali
                Tishby, John Bridle

5:40 p.m.       Decision Making Using Conventional Calculations Versus Neural
                Nets for Advanced Explosive Detection Systems
                Thomas Miller - Tensor Tech. Assoc.

6:00 p.m.       _____________________________Dinner________________________

7:30 p.m.       Break Out Groups

Room 1:         What Are the Most Successful Applications of Neural Networks?
                Chris Scofield (Chairman), Philip Gouin, Larry Jackel,
                Eric Schwartz, Ed DeRouin

Room 2:         What Theoretical Contributions Have Neural Network Researchers 
                Made?
                Eduardo Sontag (Chairman), Georg Schnitzer, Fred Girosi, 
                S. Venkatesh, Steven Judd, Jeff Vitter, Wolfgang Maass, 
                Charles Fefferman, Kurt Hornik

Room 3:         What Is the Impact of Government Support on the Development of
                Networks?
                Wagih Makky (Chairman), Shiu Cheung, Richard Ricart, 
                John Cozzens, Steve Suddarth


                        Wednesday, 28 October 1992
                       ****************************

8:55 a.m.       Neural Network Applications in Vision
                Session Chairman, Chris Scofield, - Nestor

9:00 a.m.       Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Handprinted 
                Characters
                James Keeler - MCC

9:20 a.m.       Neural Net Image Analysis for Postal Applications: From
                Locating Address Blocks to Determining Zip Codes
                Larry Jackel - AT&T Bell Laboratories

9:40 a.m.       Space Invariant Active Vision
                Eric Schwartz - Brain Research

10:00 a.m.      _________________________Coffee Break_______________________
        
10:30 a.m.      Engineering Document Processing with Neural Networks
                Philip Gouin - Nestor, Inc.

10:50 a.m.      Goal - Oriented Training of Neural Networks
                Ed DeRouin - Thought Processes, Inc.

11:10 a.m.      Hybrid Neural Networks and Image Restoration
                K.V. Prasad - CalTech

11:30 a.m.      Neural Networks for Vision Session
                K.V. Prasad, Session Chairman - CalTech

11:50 a.m.      A Discrete Radon Transform Method for Invariant Image Analysis
                Using Artificial Neural Networks
                John Doherty - Iowa State University

12:10 p.m.      _____________________________Lunch________________________

1:30 p.m.       (Title to be announced)
                Leon Cooper - Brown University

1:50 p.m.       Dynamic Systems and Perception
                Alexander Pentland - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2:00 p.m.       Deterministic Annealing for Optimization
                Alan Yuille - Harvard University

2:10 p.m.       Neural Networks in Vision
                Yehoshua Zeevi - Technion Israel

2:30 p.m.       A Neural Chip Set for Supervised Learning and CAM
                Josh Alspector - Bellcore

2:50 p.m.       Cortical Dynamics of Feature Binding & Reset: Control of
                Visual Persistence
                Ennio Mingolla, Gregory Francis, Stephen Grossberg

3:10 p.m.       _________________________Coffee Break_______________________

3:30 p.m.       Face Recognition Using an NTN
                Joseph Wilder - CAIP

3:50 p.m.       Bounds for the Computational Power and Learning Complexity
                of Analog Neural Nets
                Wolfgang Maass - Graz, Austria

4:10 p.m.       Computational Issues in Neural Networks
                George Cybenko - Dartmouth College

4:30 p.m.       Title to be announced
                Kurt Hornik - Wein University, Austria

4:50 p.m.       Technical Discussions

6:00 p.m.       Dinner and Celebration in Honor of Jim Flanagan for Receiving 
                The Marconi International Fellowship Award


                        Thursday, 29 October 1992
                       ***************************

8:45 a.m.       Recurrent Network Sessions
                Session Chairman, Richard Ricart-Booz Allen

8:50 a.m.       To be announced
                S. Y. Kung - Princeton

9:10 a.m.       Comparison of Feedforward and Recurrent Sensitivity
                Gary Kuhn - Siemens

9:30 a.m.       Short Term Memory Mechanisms for Recurrent Neural Networks
                Bert DeVries, John Pearson - David Sarnoff Research Center

9:50 a.m.       Recurrent Neural Networks for Speaker Recognition
                Richard Ricart-Booz Allen

10:10 a.m.      Processing of Complex Stimuli in the Mammalian Cochlear Nucleus
                Eric Young - Johns Hopkins

10:30 a.m.      _________________________Coffee Break_______________________

10:50 a.m.      Applications of Neural Networks
                Session Chairman, Richard Mammone - Rutgers University

11:10 a.m.      Neural Networks for the Detection of Plastic Explosives in
                Airline Baggage
                Richard Mammone

11:30 a.m.      Non-Literal Transfer of Information Among Inductive Learners
                Lorien Pratt - Colorado School of Mines

12:00 p.m.      _____________________________Lunch________________________

1:30 p.m.       Neural Networks for Identification and Control of Nonlinear
                Systems
                Eduardo Sontag - Rutgers University

1:50 p.m.       Using Neural Networks to Identify DNA Sequences
                Mick Noordeweir - Rutgers University

2:10 p.m.       Large Scale Holographic Optical Neural Network for Data Fusion
                and Signal Processing
                Taiwei Lu - Physical Optics Corp.

2:30 p.m.       A Biologically Based Synthetic Nervous System for a Real World
                Device
                George Reeke, Jr., Gerald Edelman - The Neurosciences Institute

2:50 a.m.       Title to be announced
                Shigeru Katagiri - ATR, Japan

3:10 p.m.       "Learning by Learning" in Neural Networks
                Devang Naik - Rutgers University

3:30 p.m.       Relabeling Methods of Learning
                Wen Wu - CAIP

3:50 p.m.       Long Term Memory for Neural Networks
                Anshu Agarwal - Rutgers University

4:10 p.m.       Wavelet Neural Networks
                Toufic Boubez - Rutgers University

4:30 p.m.       End of Workshop

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