Received: from ics.uci.edu by Paris.ics.uci.edu id aa05435; 25 Apr 92 9:30 PDT Received: from ics.uci.edu by q2.ics.uci.edu id aa29729; 25 Apr 92 9:29 PDT To: ML-LIST: ; Subject: Machine Learning List: Vol. 4 No. 9 Reply-to: ml@ics.uci.edu Date: Sat, 25 Apr 92 09:24:46 -0700 From: Michael Pazzani Message-ID: <9204250929.aa29729@q2.ics.uci.edu> Machine Learning List: Vol. 4 No. 9 Saturday, April 25, 1992 Contents: ML92 CONFERENCE: Bursaries for European Graduate Students Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING IN DESIGN BACKGROUND AND EXPERIMENTS IN MACHINE LEARNING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE COLT '92 1992 Cognitive Science Society Conference Info The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Mail contributions to ml@ics.uci.edu. Mail requests to be added or deleted to ml-request@ics.uci.edu. Back issues may be FTP'd from ics.uci.edu in pub/ml-list/V/ or N.Z where X and N are the volume and number of the issue; ID: anonymous PASSWORD: ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 18:04:10 BST From: Derek Sleeman Subject: ML92 CONFERENCE: Bursaries for European Graduate Students ML92 CONFERENCE ABERDEEN, JULY 1-4 1992 The European Commission (DGXIII) has agreed to sponsor a number of student Bursaries to enable European graduate students to attend this meeting. These Bursaries will cover: - Student Conference fee (#75) - Workshop fee (#15) - Lunches (#15) - upto 5 nights accommodation in the student hall/dorm. So they are worth about #200 each. However, they are NOT available to those involved in any Community supported project. Priority for Bursaries will be given to those students who are presenting papers and posters at the main Conference; second priority will be given to those contributing to a Workshop; thirdly those attending will be eligible. If you would like to be considered for a Bursary, please have your advisor/supervisor write me a letter (no email please). Bursaries will be assigned on a first come basis. Applications & Enquiries to: Prof Derek SLEEMAN (EEC Bursaries) Computing Science Department KING's COLLEGE The University ABERDEEN AB9 2UE Scotland UK Telephone +44 224 272288/95 FAX +44 224 273422 ------------------------------ Subject: MACHINE LEARNING IN DESIGN Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 20:45:26 -0700 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Workshop on MACHINE LEARNING IN DESIGN to be held in conjunction with the SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGN 22-25 June 1992, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. SUMMARY: This workshop is intended to provide a forum for provocative discussion related to the application and extension of machine learning techniques in design. Various machine learning techniques have been applied in domains such as medical diagnosis and classification. The paradigms for machine learning range from symbolic approaches such as conceptual clustering, to subsymbolic approaches, such as neural networks. The premise to the development of this workshop is that design provides distinct challenges to the application of machine learning techniques. The current techniques as developed in the AI community do not address many of the issues relevant to design. This workshop will focus on the issues that make machine learning in design difficult. The expected outcome is a set of issues that the AI in design community should be addressing in the next few years. ATTENDANCE: Participation will be limited to keep the group small enough for discussion to be possible (approximately 20 people). Participants will be selected based on the submission of a two-page position paper on the use of machine learning in design (including title and references). Participants must be registered attendees of the AID'92 conference. The positions papers of the participants will be distributed in advance of the workshop. A workshop registration fee of $50, to be paid by all participants, will cover costs. FORMAT: The format of the workshop is to be discussion with discussion leaders. It will be held during a half day session just prior to the full conference. There may be a chance to submit extended versions of the position papers to a special edition of a journal after the workshop. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS: Send one copy of the two page position statement via email to Mary Lou Maher at mary@archsci.arch.su.oz.au by May 8th. Submissions may be in hard copy form, but email submissions of plain text files is preferred. Authors of selected submissions will be notified as soon as possible after that date. Submit three copies of hard copy statements to: Dr Mary Lou Maher Department of Architectural and Design Science University of Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Telephone: 011 612 692 4108 Fax: 011 612 692 3031 WORKSHOP ORGANISING COMMITTEE: Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney, Australia. Email: mary@archsci.arch.su.oz.au David C. Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA. Email: dcb@cs.wpi.edu Alex Duffy, University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Email: alex@cad-centre.strathclyde.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Apr 92 17:11:02 +0200 From: Walter Daelemans Subject: BACKGROUND AND EXPERIMENTS IN MACHINE LEARNING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE For those who missed the workshop, available soon: BACKGROUND AND EXPERIMENTS IN MACHINE LEARNING OF NATURAL LANGUAGE (Proceedings First International SHOE Workshop) Walter Daelemans and David Powers (eds.) ITK Institute for Language Technology and AI Tilburg University ITK Proceedings 92/1, 282 pages, ISBN: 90-74029-02-7, May 1992. To obtain a copy, send request (preferably by email) to Walter Daelemans, ITK, P.O.Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 13 663070, Fax: +31 13 663110, (Email: walter@kub.nl). SHOE is a Europe-wide informal consortium focussing on the Extraction of Hierarchical Structure for machine learning of the lower levels of natural language. o - E xtraction / o - O f / o - H ierarchical / o - S tructure for Machine Learning of Natural Language CONTENTS PART I: BACKGROUND The Logic of Learning: An introduction to concept learning and Inductive Logic Programming. (Peter Flach) Topics in `Natural' Natural Language Acquisition: An Introduction. (Steven Gillis) The Genetic Algorithm. (Bernard Manderick) Probabilistic Performance Analysis of Heuristic Search using Parallel Hash Tables. (Giovanni Manzini and Marco Somalvico) SHOE: The Extraction of Hierarchical Structure for Machine Learning of Natural Language: Project Summary. (David Powers and Walter Daelemans) SHOE related project research in SATUS, SCIPS, and LLAMA. (Burghard Rieger) Aims and Perspectives of Quantitative and Synergetic Linguistics. (Juergen Schrepp) Language Learning, Cognition and Computing: A Summary. (Gerry Wolff) PART II: IMPLEMENTATION Linguistic Pattern Matching Capabilities of Connectionist Networks. (Antal van den Bosch and Walter Daelemans) Analogical Modelling of Main Stress Assignment in Dutch Simplex Words. (Gert Durieux) Learning Vowel Harmony. (Mark Ellison) Bootstrapping Syntactic Categories Using Statistical Methods. (Steven Finch and Nick Chater) Inductive Learning of Reversible Grammars. (Sven Naumann and Jurgen Schrepp) On the Significance of Closed Classes and Boundary Conditions: Experiments in Lexical and Syntactic Learning. (David Powers) Filtering the Pravda with a Self-Organizing Neural Net. (Jan Scholtes) Resolving Linguistic Ambiguities with a Neural Data-Oriented Parsing System. (Jan Scholtes) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 15:48:10 -0400 From: Ming Li Message-Id: <9204241948.AA23495@watmath.waterloo.edu> To: colt-92@watmath.waterloo.EDU Subject: COLT'92 Program & Registration Form COLT '92 Workshop on Computational Learning Theory Sponsored by ACM SIGACT and SIGART July 27 - 29, 1992 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania GENERAL INFORMATION Registration & Reception: Sunday, 7:00 - 10:00 pm, 2M56-2P56 Forbes Quadrangle Conference Banquet: Monday, 7:00 pm The conference sessions will be held in the William Pitt Union. Late Registration, etc.: Kurtzman Room (during technical sessions) Lectures & Impromptu Talks: Ballroom Poster Sessions: Assembly Room SCHEDULE OF TALKS Sunday, July 26 RECEPTION: 7:00 - 10:00 pm Monday, July 27 SESSION 1: 8:45 - 10:05 am 8:45 - 9:05 Learning boolean read-once formulas with arbitrary symmetric and constant fan-in gates, by Nader H. Bshouty, Thomas Hancock, and Lisa Hellerstein 9:05 - 9:25 On-line Learning of Rectangles, by Zhixiang Chen and Wolfgang Maass 9:25 - 9:45 Cryptographic lower bounds on learnability of AC^1 functions on the uniform distribution, by Michael Kharitonov 9:45 - 9:55 Learning hierarchical rule sets, by Jyrki Kivinen, Heikki Mannila and Esko Ukkonen 9:55 - 10:05 Random DFA's can be approximately learned from sparse uniform examples, by Kevin Lang SESSION 2: 10:30 - 11:50 am 10:30 - 10:50 An O(n^loglog n) Learning Algorithm for DNF, by Yishay Mansour 10:50 - 11:10 A technique for upper bounding the spectral norm with applications to learning, by Mihir Bellare 11:10 - 11:30 Exact learning of read-k disjoint DNF and not-so-disjoint DNF, by Howard Aizenstein and Leonard Pitt 11:30 - 11:40 Learning k-term DNF formulas with an incomplete membership oracle, by Sally A. Goldman, and H. David Mathias 11:40 - 11:50 Learning DNF formulae under classes of probability distributions, by Michele Flammini, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela and Ludek Kucera SESSION 3: 1:45 - 3:05 pm 1:45 - 2:05 Bellman strikes again -- the rate of growth of sample complexity with dimension for the nearest neighbor classifier, by Santosh S. Venkatesh, Robert R. Snapp, and Demetri Psaltis 2:05 - 2:25 A theory for memory-based learning, by Jyh-Han Lin and Jeffrey Scott Vitter 2:25 - 2:45 Learnability of description logics, by William W. Cohen and Haym Hirsh 2:45 - 2:55 PAC-learnability of determinate logic programs, by Savso Dvzeroski, Stephen Muggleton and Stuart Russell 2:55 - 3:05 Polynomial time inference of a subclass of context-free transformations, by Hiroki Arimura, Hiroki Ishizaka, and Takeshi Shinohara SESSION 4: 3:30 - 4:40 pm 3:30 - 3:50 A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers, by Bernhard Boser, Isabell Guyon, and Vladimir Vapnik 3:50 - 4:10 The learning complexity of smooth functions of a single variable, by Don Kimber and Philip M. Long 4:10 - 4:20 Absolute error bounds for learning linear functions online, by Ethan Bernstein 4:20 - 4:30 Probably almost discriminative learning, by Kenji Yamanishi 4:30 - 4:40 PAC Learning with generalized samples and an application to stochastic geometry, by S.R. Kulkarni, S.K. Mitter, J.N. Tsitsiklis and O. Zeitouni POSTER SESSION #1 & IMPROMPTU TALKS: 5:00 - 6:30 pm BANQUET: 7:00 pm Tuesday, July 28 SESSION 5: 8:45 - 10:05 am 8:45 - 9:05 Degrees of inferability, by P. Cholak, R. Downey, L. Fortnow, W. Gasarch, E. Kinber, M. Kummer, S. Kurtz, and T. Slaman 9:05 - 9:25 On learning limiting programs, by John Case, Sanjay Jain, and Arun Sharma 9:25 - 9:45 Breaking the probability 1/2 barrier in FIN-type learning, by Robert Daley, Bala Kalyanasundaram, and Mahendran Velauthapillai 9:45 - 9:55 Case based learning in inductive inference, by Klaus P. Jantke 9:55 - 10:05 Generalization versus classification, by Rolf Wiehagen and Carl Smith SESSION 6: 10:30 - 11:50 am 10:30 - 10:50 Learning switching concepts, by Avrim Blum and Prasad Chalasani 10:50 - 11:10 Learning with a slowly changing distribution, by Peter L. Bartlett 11:10 - 11:30 Dominating distributions and learnability, by Gyora M. Benedek and Alon Itai 11:30 - 11:40 Polynomial uniform convergence and polynomial-sample learnability, by Alberto Bertoni, Paola Campadelli, Anna Morpurgo, and Sandra Panizza 11:40 - 11:50 Learning functions by simultaneously estimating errors, by Kevin Buescher and P.R. Kumar INVITED TALK: 1:45 - 2:45 pm: Reinforcement learning, by Andy Barto, University of Massachusetts SESSION 7: 3:10 - 4:40 pm 3:10 - 3:30 On learning noisy threshold functions with finite precision weights, by R. Meir and J.F. Fontanari 3:30 - 3:50 Query by committee, by H.S. Seung, M. Opper, H. Sompolinsky 3:50 - 4:00 A noise model on learning sets of strings, by Yasubumi Sakakibara and Rani Siromoney 4:00 - 4:10 Language learning from stochastic input, by Shyam Kapur and Gianfranco Bilardi 4:10 - 4:20 On exact specification by examples, by Martin Anthony, Graham Brightwell, Dave Cohen and John Shawe-Taylor 4:20 - 4:30 A computational model of teaching, by Jeffrey Jackson and Andrew Tomkins 4:30 - 4:40 Approximate testing and learnability, by Kathleen Romanik IMPROMPTU TALKS: 5:00 - 6:00 pm BUSINESS MEETING: 8:00 pm POSTER SESSION #2: 9:00 - 10:30 pm Wednesday, July 29 SESSION 8: 8:45 - 9:45 am 8:45 - 9:05 Characterizations of learnability for classes of 0,...,n-valued functions, by Shai Ben-David, Nicol`o Cesa-Bianchi and Philip M. Long 9:05 - 9:25 Toward efficient agnostic learning, by Michael J. Kearns, Robert E. Schapire, and Linda Sellie 9:25 - 9:45 Approximating Bayes decisions by additive estimations by Svetlana Anoulova, Paul Fischer, Stefan Polt, and Hans Ulrich Simon SESSION 9: 10:10 - 10:50 am 10:10 - 10:30 On the role of procrastination for machine learning, by Rusins Freivalds and Carl Smith 10:30 - 10:50 Types of monotonic language learning and their characterization, by Steffen Lange and Thomas Zeugmann SESSION 10: 11:10 - 11:50 am 11:10 - 11:30 An improved boosting algorithm and its implications on learning complexity, by Yoav Freund 11:30 - 11:50 Some weak learning results, by David P. Helmbold and Manfred K. Warmuth SESSION 11: 1:45 - 2:45 pm 1:45 - 2:05 Universal sequential learning and decision from individual data sequences, by Neri Merhav and Meir Feder 2:05 - 2:25 Robust trainability of single neurons, by Klaus-U. Hoffgen and Hans-U. Simon 2:25 - 2:45 On the computational power of neural nets, by Hava T. Siegelmann and Eduardo D. Sontag =============================================================================== CONFERENCE INFORMATION The workshop is being held on the Pitt campus which is located in the Oakland section (East End) of the City of Pittsburgh. There are numerous things to do in Pittsburgh at this time of year, including a visit to the Carnegie Museum which is located two blocks from the conference site. 1. Flight tickets: The Greater Pittsburgh International Airport is about a 30 minute drive from campus. Special discount air fares on USAir flights are available to conference attendees (35% off full coach round trip fares; and 5% off discounted round trip fares). You can obtain these by contacting USAir's Meeting and Convention Reservation Office (800) 334-8644 between 8:00 am and 9:00 pm. Eastern Time; or through your own travel agent. Be sure to refer to Gold File Number 45950265 when making your reservations. 2. Transportation from the airport to Pitt: The Airline Transportation Company (412) 471-2250 provides limosene service between the airport and the Holiday Inn at University Center (two blocks from the conference site). Departures from the airport are every two hours between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm on Saturday; and at 10:00 am and every hour between 2:00 pm and 9:00 pm on Sunday. Departures from the Holiday Inn are at 10 minutes to the hour between 6:50 am and 7:50 pm Monday through Friday. The cost one-way is $10.50 and round-trip is $18.00. It is also possible to take the airport limosene which stops at the William Penn Hotel (and which operates more frequently) in downtown Pittsburgh, and then take a city bus into Oakland. The cost of a taxi from the airport to Oakland is approximately $32. 3. Driving to Pittsburgh: >From the East: Exit the PA Turnpike at Monroeville and take I376 West to the Oakland exit (Exit 7A, 1-1/2 miles past the Squirrel Hill Tunnel). Turn right off the exit ramp onto Bates Street, and proceed until it terminates at S. Bouquet Street. Turn left onto S. Bouquet and proceed until the first traffic light (Forbes Avenue), and turn right onto Forbes Avenue. (Continue with Directions to Hotels). >From the North, West and South: Follow signs to Pittsburgh and I376 East, and from downtown take I376 East towards Monroeville. Take the Forbes Avenue exit (first exit on right after downtown), and enter Forbes Avenue (which is a one way street). (Continue with Directions to Hotels). Directions to Hotels: Continue on Forbes Avenue until Bigelow Boulevard (the 40 storey Cathedral of Learning will be diagonally opposite on your left). Turn left onto Bigelow Boulevard and proceed to the second traffic light: To reach the Holiday Inn turn right at this light and proceed one block and turn right on Lytton Avenue. The Holiday Inn is on the left in the middle of the block. To reach the University Club turn left at this light and proceed one block and turn left onto University Place. The University Club is on the right in the middle of the block. 4. Conference and room registration: Please fill out the enclosed conference registration form and send it to us with your payment. IT MUST BE POSTMARKED by JUNE 19 and RECEIVED by JUNE 25 to obtain the EARLY REGISTRATION RATE. Registration forms are also provided for each of the conference hotels: the Holiday Inn and the University Club. ATTENDEES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ACCOMODATIONS. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Please fill in the information needed for registration on the attached form. Make your payment by check or international money order, in US dollars and payable through a US bank, to ACM COLT '92. Mail this form together with payment (BY JUNE 19 TO AVOID THE LATE FEE) to: Betty Brannick COLT '92 Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 In case of questions, please contact Betty Brannick: E-mail: brannick@cs.pitt.edu PHONE: (412) 624-8493 FAX: (412) 624-8854. Confirmations will be done by e-mail. If you don't receive a confirmation within three weeks of payment, please contact Betty. Updated versions of this document can be obtained by sending E-mail to brannick@cs.pitt.edu (please specify PLAIN text or LATEX format). ACCOMODATIONS AND DINING There are two conference hotels, both within two blocks of the conference site. The Holiday Inn at University Center (412) 682-6200 (FAX 682-5745) is a recently built hotel. The rate is $76 per room for up to 4 persons (for rooms which have two double beds). Arrangements can be made to have roll-away cots at the rate of $10 per cot per day. These room rates are guaranteed only for reservations received ON OR BEFORE JULY 3. The University Club (412) 621-1890 (FAX 621-8382) is an older but elegantly appointed facility. The rates are $65/single and $70/double. When having meals at the University Club CASUAL CONSERVATIVE DRESS is required. These room rates are guaranteed only for reservations received ON OR BEFORE JULY 15. ATTENDEES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR ACCOMODATIONS. There is a large assortment of eateries for lunch and dinner in Oakland, downtown and in neighboring communities within Pittsburgh. =============================================================================== Conference Registration Form Name:_________________________________________________________________________ Affiliation:__________________________________________________________________ Address:______________________________________________________________________ City:_____________________________________ State:_______________ Zip:_________ Country:______________________________________________________________________ Telephone: (______)___________________________________________________________ E-mail address:_______________________________________________________________ The registration fee includes a copy of the proceedings. The registration fee includes one banquet ticket (except for student registrations). Lunches are NOT included in the registration fee. Member ACM, SIGACT, SIGART: $165 $_____________ Non-member: $185 $_____________ Late: (postmarked after June 19) $220 $_____________ Full time students: (no banquet) $80 $_____________ Extra banquet tickets: (quantity) x $35 = $_____________ How many in your party have dietary restrictions? Vegetarian:______________________________ Other:______________________________ _____ Please check here if you are disabled or require special services. Attach a written description of needs. Shirtsize, please circle one of: small medium large x-large AMOUNT ENCLOSED: Registration $__________ Banquet tickets $__________ TOTAL $__________ =============================================================================== HOLIDAY INN at University Center Registration Form This reservation card must be used to insure accommodations and be received no later than 7/3/92 @5:00 pm or room will be sold on a space available basis. CHECK IN TIME: Room may not be occupied until after 2:00 pm. CHECK OUT TIME: 12:00 Noon. PHONE: (412) 682-6200; FAX (412) 682-5745 DAILY PARKING CHARGE: $9.00 PLEASE SEND TO: HOLIDAY INN UNIVERSITY CENTER 100 Lytton Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Attn: Reservations Department or FAX to Above Number. Rate: $76 per room Group: COMPUTATIONAL LEARNING THEORY Function Date: July 25 - 29, 1992 Please Reserve ________ Room(s) For ______ Persons Please Indicate Desired Accomodations: _____ One Person - 1 Bed _____ Two Persons - 1 Bed _____ Two to Four Persons - 2 Beds _____ Check here if you would like a Non Smoking Room Name________________________________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________________________________ City_____________________________________ State___________ Zip______________ Telephone (_____)___________________________________________________________ Sharing with________________________________________________________________ For Arrival On____________________________ Depart On________________________ Guarantee Arrival By Sending First Night's Deposit or Furnishing: Credit Card #_____________________________ Exp. 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PITT COMPUTER SCIENCE CHARGE TO: GUEST Please Reserve ________ Room(s) For ______ Persons Please Indicate Desired Accomodations: _____ Single Room ($65 per night) _____ Double Room ($70 per night) Name________________________________________________________________________ Address_____________________________________________________________________ City_____________________________________ State___________ Zip______________ Telephone (_____)___________________________________________________________ For Arrival On____________________________ Depart On________________________ Guarantee Arrival By Sending First Night's Deposit or Furnishing: Credit Card #_____________________________ Exp. Date________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 16:12:46 EST From: "CANDACE SHERTZER, 5-4658, PSYCHOLOGY 341" Subject: 1992 Cognitive Science Society Conference Info To: ML@ics.uci.edu Message-ID: <9204241412.aa13230@q2.ics.uci.edu> ================================================================ REGISTRATION INFORMATION AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAM for The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society July 29 -- August 1, 1992 Cognitive Science Program Indiana University Bloomington, IN The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society will be held July 29 - August 1, 1992, at Indiana University in Bloomington. The conference will feature seven invited plenary speakers, nine symposia, 110 submitted talks, and approximately 90 posters. There are also special evening events scheduled. ================================================================ PROGRAM (subject to change) Wednesday, July 29: 2:00 - 5:30 p.m. Registration 5:30 - 7:00 Reception 7:00 - 8:15 Plenary Talk Thursday, July 30: 9:00 - 10:15 a.m. Plenary Talk 10:15 - 10:50 Break 10:50 - 12:30 p.m. Talks and Symposia 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch 2:00 - 3:40 Talks and Symposia 3:40 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:30 Plenary Talk 5:30 - 8:00 Banquet (optional) Friday, July 31: 9:00 - 5:30 Same as Thursday 5:30 - 8:00 Poster Session I Saturday, August 1 9:00 - 2:00 Same as Thursday and Friday 2:00 - 3:40 Poster Session II 3:40 - 4:15 Break 4:15 - 5:30 Plenary Talk 5:30 - 8:00 Concert (optional) Sunday Morning, August 2: Buses depart for the Indianapolis Airport ============================================================================= PLENARY SPEAKERS and talk titles: Elizabeth Bates Crosslinguistic studies of language breakdown in aphasia. Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego Daniel Dennett Problems with some models of consciousness. Center for Cognitive Studies, Tufts University Martha Farah Neuropsychology. Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University Douglas Hofstadter The centrality of analogy-making in human cognition. Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University John Holland Must learning precede cognition? Department of Psychology, University of Michigan Richard Shiffrin Memory representation, storage, and retrieval. Department of Psychology, Indiana University Michael Turvey Ecological foundations of cognition. Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut ============================================================================== SYMPOSIA: Topics and organizers Representation: Who needs it? Timothy van Gelder, Indiana University Beth Preston, University of Georgia Computational models of evolution as tools for cognitive science Rik Belew, University of California, San Diego Dynamic processes in music cognition Caroline Palmer, The Ohio State University Allen Winold, Indiana University Dynamics in the control and coordination of action Geoffrey Bingham, Indiana University Bruce Kay, Brown University Goal-Driven Learning David Leake, Indiana University Ashwin Ram, Georgia Institute of Technology Similarity and representation in early cognitive development Mary Jo Rattermann, Hampshire College Reasoning and visual representations K. Jon Barwise, Indiana University Speech perception and spoken language processing David Pisoni, Indiana University Robert Peterson, Indiana University Analogy, high-level perception, and categorization Douglas Hofstadter, Indiana University Melanie Mitchell, University of Michigan ================================================================ SPECIAL EVENING EVENTS: * Welcoming Reception - Wednesday, July 29. * Gala Banquet - Thursday, July 30. * Indiana University Opera performance of "Carousel" - Saturday, August 1. (The full program will be sent to all registered participants in early July, and will also be available at the Registration Desk.) ================================================================ About the Conference Site: Bloomington, a city of 60,000 people, is located in a region of state and national forests amid rolling hills and numerous lakes in south central Indiana. Within a twenty minute drive there are a number of state parks, several large lakes offering recreational activities such as sailing, boating, swimming, and waterskiing, and a winter ski resort. Brown County State Park attracts thousands of visitors year-round and is renowned for its spectacular fall colors; nearby is the picturesque artist community of Nashville, Indiana. The Conference will be held at the student union building of Indiana University. The building is the largest single-structure student union in the nation and offers many amenities and services, including automated teller machines, check-cashing services, post office, newsstand, photocopy shop, barber and hair styling shops, lost-and-found, hearing-aid compatible public phones and fax, several eateries, bowling alleys, bookstore, etc. Also located in the IMU is the University Computing Services, which can provide guest login, so that conference participants can access their home computers through the Internet. The IMU is fully wheelchair accessible. ================================================================ LODGING: ******** Forms for reserving rooms at any of these locations are included at the end of this note. On-Campus: ********** Indiana Memorial Union (IMU) Hotel: The conference will be held in the IMU, so these rooms offer maximal convenience. All rooms have air-conditioning, bathrooms, telephone, cable TV and services. Type of room Number of people* 1 2 3 4 Standard Double (1 double bed) $52.00 $60.00 xxx xxx Deluxe $57.00 $65.00 xxx xxx Standard Double (2 double beds) $60.00 $68.00 $76.00 $84.00 Deluxe $66.00 $74.00 $82.00 $90.00 King (1 king-sized bed) $58.00 $66.00 xxx xxx Residence Halls: Rooms have air conditioning and telephones. Bathrooms are shared. It is an easy half-mile walk to the Union, but shuttle vans will also be available. Single rooms only - $22.50* Off-Campus: *********** Rooms have also been reserved at two off-campus hotels. Both hotels offer amenities, and are approximately one mile from the IMU. Free shuttle service will be provided. Hampton Inn (2100 N. Walnut)* Single room..............................................$43.00 Double room..............................................$43.00 Econo Lodge (4501 E. 3rd Street)* Single room..............................................$38.00 Double room..............................................$45.00 King-sized room..........................................$45.00 *all rates subject to 10% hotel tax ==================================================================== FOOD: ***** Meals other than the special conference banquet and reception are available in many different venues. The IMU has several eating establishments: Cafeteria, Deli, and Tudor Room. Costs range from $3 for a sandwich and drink at the Deli to more than $20 for a full-service dinner in the Tudor Room. (The Tudor Room is not open for breakfast.) There are many restaurants within walking distance of the IMU. These include a Thai restaurant, Tibetan, Chinese, Ethiopian, Middle Eastern and others. A wide variety of vegetarian selections are also available on local menus. Conference participants who stay in the residence halls may purchase individual meal tickets. Meals are "all you can eat." The price for breakfast is $2.95, lunch $4.90 and dinner $7.45. =================================================================== TRAVEL: ******* USAir is the official airline for Cognitive Science 1992, and offers the following discounts on travel to the Conference. USAir Conference Rates: Within the USA: 40% off the full round trip day coach fare with no advance ticket purchase. 5% off published fares excluding first class, government contract fares, senior fares, system fares, and tour fares following all restrictions. >From Canada: 35% off the full round trip day coach fare with no advance ticket purchase. Reservations: To obtain this meeting discount, call USAir's Meeting and Convention Reservation Office at 1-800-334-8644, 8:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Eastern Standard Time. Refer to Gold File Number: 36570038. Participants will need to fly into Indianapolis Airport, which is a one hour drive (50 miles) from Bloomington. Several options are available for travel between Indianapolis and Bloomington: *Buses* will be chartered from Indiana University, for Wednesday arrivals and Sunday departures. They are scheduled to leave every hour, on the hour, from Indianapolis Airport on Wednesday starting at 12:00 noon through 7:00 p.m., with two additional buses leaving at 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. On Sunday, they will leave Bloomington on the hour from 6:00 a.m. through 12:00 noon, plus an additional bus leaving at 3:00 p.m. These charters will cost $20.00 per person, round trip. These buses are not equipped with wheelchair elevators, but wheelchairs can be stowed on board and disabled persons assisted into a regular seat. *Private limousine services* cost approximately $70 round trip. Participants choosing this option can make their own arrangements directly with the limousine companies. Two services available are Classic Touch Limousine Service, Inc. (812-339-7269) and Indy Connection Limousines, Inc. (1-800-888-4639). *Rental cars* are also available at Indianapolis Airport. Bloomington is easily reached from Indianapolis via a divided highway. Parking: For those participants who will drive to Bloomington, free parking is available at the IMU for guests of the Union; others may purchase a temporary decal for $3.00/day which allows access to campus parking garages. These decals will be available at the residence hall or at the registration desk. =================================================================== REGISTRATION: ************* Registration fees are outlined below. To register for the conference, please complete the enclosed form and return with appropriate payment to: Conference Registrar Conference #199-92 Indiana University Conference Bureau Indiana Memorial Union Rm. 677 Bloomington, IN 47405 On-site registration will be held from 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, July 29, in the East Lounge of the IMU. This will be staffed each day of the Conference from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., providing information and assistance to participants and their guests. Fees: before Status June 27, 1992 Late Member $155.00 $200.00 Non-Member $180.00 $230.00 Student $80.00 $100.00 The registration fee may be paid by check or money order in US currency made payable to: Indiana University #199-92. Visa and MasterCard will also be accepted. Those paying by credit card may register by fax (812-855-8077) or by phone (812-855-9824 or 812-855-4661). Please refer to 199-92 as our Conference number. Cancellations: Cancellations received in writing prior to July 10, 1992, will be entitled to a full refund, less a $25 administrative fee. No refunds will be granted after that date. ==================================================================== THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Indiana University, Bloomington July 29 -- August 1, 1992 REGISTRATION FORM please print Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Country: Daytime phone: ( ) E-Mail Address: PLEASE COMPLETE ONE REGISTRATION FORM PER PERSON ATTENDING. DUPLICATE IF NECESSARY. after Registration type Fees June 27, 1992 Total Paid Member $155.00 $200.00 __________ If you are not a member, but wish to apply, complete the application form and include a photocopy of it and of your membership fee check with this registration. Non-Member $180.00 $230.00 __________ Student $80.00 $100.00 __________ If you are registering as a student, please include a photocopy of a university form or letter from a faculty member indicating current enrollment. Bus trip on Wed. July 29, and Sun. Aug. 1: no. riding ____ @ $20.00=________ Gala Banquet on Thursday, July 30: no. attending ____ @ $25.00 = ________ Opera perf. of "Carousel" on Sat., Aug. 1: no. attending ____ @ $16.00=_____ Method of payment: ________ MC ________ Visa ________ Check Credit Card Number: _________________________ Exp. date: ________ Signature of Cardholder ________________________ Make checks payable to: Indiana University #199-92 Registration fee includes admission to all sessions and coffee breaks of the conference, one copy of the Conference Proceedings, and an information packet. ==================================================================== THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Indiana University, Bloomington July 29 -- August 1, 1992 ON-CAMPUS HOUSING FORM Indiana Memorial Union *all rooms will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Type of room Number of people 1 2 3 4 Standard Double (1 double bed) $52.00 $60.00 xxx xxx Deluxe $57.00 $65.00 xxx xxx Standard Double (2 double beds) $60.00 $68.00 $76.00 $84.00 Deluxe $66.00 $74.00 $82.00 $90.00 King (1 king-sized bed) $58.00 $66.00 xxx xxx *all rates subject to 10% hotel tax check-in date: check-out date: roommate _____ I prefer to have a roommate assigned ______ male ______ female ______ smoker ______ non-smoker *Confirmation will come directly from the IMU. Cancellation must be made by 6:00 p.m. on the day of arrival to avoid penalties. Provide credit card information below to hold room past 6:00 p.m. *********************** Halls of Residence Only single rooms are available - $22.50 per night, plus 10% tax check-in date: check-out date: _______ male _______ female Method of Payment ______ same as reg. fees ______ MC ______ Visa ______ Check Credit Card Number: __________________________ Exp. date: __________ Signature of Cardholder: ______________________________ *make checks payable to: Indiana University #199-92 Send REGISTRATION and ON-CAMPUS HOUSING forms to: Conference Registrar Indiana University Conference Bureau Indiana Memorial Union Rm. 677 Bloomington, IN 47405 ==================================================================== THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY Indiana University, Bloomington July 29 - August 1, 1992 OFF-CAMPUS HOUSING FORM *all rooms will be assigned on a first-come-first-served basis. Hampton Inn, 2100 N. Walnut, Bloomington, IN 47401, (812)334-2100 Single room..............................................$43.00/night Double room..............................................$43.00/night check-in date: __________ check-out date: __________ ************************ Econo Lodge, 4501 E. 3rd, Bloomington, IN 47403, (812)332-2141 Single room..............................................$38.00/night Double room..............................................$45.00/night King-sized room..........................................$45.00/night check-in date: __________ check-out date: __________ *all room rates are subject to 10% tax. earliest check-in time for both hotels is: 2:00 p.m. latest check-out time for both is: 12:00 noon Name: Address: City: State: Zip: Daytime phone ( ) Your reservations will be held until 6:00 p.m. unless accompanied by an accepted credit card number, expiration date, and signature. ________ Hold until 6 p.m. only ________ Hold until arrival (credit card information below) Method of Payment __________ MC __________ Visa Credit card number: Exp. date: Signature of Cardholder IMPORTANT: DO NOT mail this form with the registration, and/or campus housing form. Mail it directly to the appropriate hotel. ==================================================================== COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY 1992 Membership Application Includes a one year subscription to the journal Cognitive Science Name: (last/first/middle) Mailing address: FEES Member - $50.00 Student - $25.00 Foreign Postage (excluding Canada) - $14.00 Spouse of Member (no journal) - $25.00 Name of Spouse: TOTAL: $ ______________ METHOD OF PAYMENT [ ]Check in U.S. $ on U.S. bank [ ]VISA/MasterCard/Access (fill in below) Card Number: Exp. date: / Name on Card (please print): Signature of Card Holder: Telephone Number (including area codes): Electronic Mail: FAX Number: Full member applicants please provide either (a) the signatures of two current members of the Society who are sponsoring your application, (b) evidence of a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in a cognitive science related field, or (c) a curriculum vita indicating publications in a cognitive science related field. Sponsor 1 ___________________ Sponsor 2 ________________________ Students must provide a xerox of university form or letter from faculty member indicating current enrollment. IMPORTANT: DO NOT mail this form with any of the forms for registration. Mail this directly to: Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer Cognitive Science Society LRDC University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA ======================================================================= For more information or a hard copy of this brochure contact Candace Shertzer Cognitive Science Program Indiana University (812)855-4658 cshertze@silver.ucs.indiana.edu ======================================================================= The Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society Conference Chair John K. Kruschke Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405 Steering Committee Indiana University, Cognitive Science Program David Chalmers, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition J. Michael Dunn, Philosophy Michael Gasser, Computer Science & Linguistics Douglas Hofstadter, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition David Leake, Computer Science David Pisoni, Psychology Robert Port, Computer Science & Linguistics Richard Shiffrin, Psychology Timothy van Gelder, Philosophy Local Arrangements: Candace Shertzer, Cognitive Science Program Officers of the Cognitive Science Society James L. McClelland, President 1988 - 1996 Geoffrey Hinton 1986 - 1992 David Rumelhart 1986 - 1993 Dedre Gentner 1987 - 1993 James Greeno 1987 - 1993 Walter Kintsch 1988 - 1994 Steve Kosslyn 1989 - 1995 George Lakoff 1989 - 1995 Philip Johnson-Laird 1990 - 1996 Wendy Lehnert 1990 - 1996 Janet Kolodner 1991 - 1997 Kurt VanLehn 1991 - 1997 Ex Officio Board Members Martin Ringle, Executive Editor, Cognitive Science 1986 - Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer (2nd Term) 1988 - 1994 ==================================================================== ------------------------------ END of ML-LIST 4.9