Last year's conference was attended by scientists from 31 countries. The conference is structured to facilitate intense communication between its participants, both in the formal sessions and during its other activities. The conference will include invited tutorials and lectures, and contributed lectures and posters by experts on the biology and technology of how the brain and other intelligent systems adapt to a changing world. The conference is aimed at researchers and students of computational neuroscience, connectionist cognitive science, artificial neural networks, neuromorphic engineering, and artificial intelligence. A single oral or poster session enables all presented work to be highly visible.
Abstract submissions encourage submissions of the latest results.
Costs are kept at a minimum without compromising the quality of meeting handouts and social events. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 29, 2000. See Registration Information for details. The fee will be returned if the Abstract is not accepted for presentation and publication in the meeting proceedings. Registration fees of accepted abstracts will be returned on request only until April 14, 2000.