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Third Announcement and Final Call for Papers (fwd)

by Erdi Peter

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 22:41:50 +0200 From: Daniel Ruhe <annimab(a)www.phil.gu.se> To: ANNIMAB Society <annimab(a)www.phil.gu.se> Subject: Third Announcement and Final Call for Papers Below you can find the most recent information about a new conference of interest for researchers in medicine, biology, statistics, AI, artificial neural networks and cognitive science. (Our apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message!) For more information about the conference see: http://www.phil.gu.se/annimab.html Third Announcement and Final Call for Papers: ANNIMAB-1 an international conference on Artificial Neural Networks In Medicine And Biology Goteborg, Sweden, May 13-16, 2000 CONTENTS Conference Description Keynote Speakers Call for Papers Program Committee Schedule of Events Registration Accommodation The Organisers CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION Artificial neural network (ANN) techniques are currently being used for many data analysis and modelling tasks in clinical medicine as well as in theoretical biology, and the possible applications of ANNs in these fields are countless. The ANNIMAB-1 conference will summarise the state of the art, analyse the relations between ANN techniques and other available methods, and point to possible future biological and medical uses of ANNs. It will have three main themes: 1) Medical applications of artificial neural networks: for better diagnoses and outcome predictions from clinical and laboratory data, in the analysis of ECG and EEG signals, in medical image analysis, for the handling of medical databases, etc. 2) Uses of ANNs in biology outside clinical medicine: for example, in models of ecology and evolution, for data analysis in molecular biology, in simulations of cell signalling mechanisms, and (of course) in models of animal and human nervous systems and their capabilities. 3) Theoretical aspects: recent developments in ANN techniques, ANNs in relation to AI and to traditional statistical procedures, possible roles of ANNs in the medical decision process, etc. Hybrid systems and integrative approaches, such as those involving Bayesian belief nets, will receive special attention. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Pierre Baldi, California Institute of Technology Gail Carpenter, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Georg Dorffner, Department of Medical Cybernetics and Artifical Intelligence, University of Vienna Richard Dybowski, Intensive Care Unit (Division of Medicine), King's College, London Wayne Getz, Division of Insect Biology, Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley Teuvo Kohonen, Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology Anders Lansner, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computing Science (NADA), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm Paulo Lisboa, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University CALL FOR PAPERS Papers for oral or poster presentation should be written in English and submitted in four printed copies. Papers must be received by November 1st, 1999, to be included in the reviewing process. The maximum length of papers, including tables and pictures, is 6 pages, using one column of 12 pt single spaced text. Detailed author's instructions will be available at our website by October 1st. Attach a letter including the surface and e-mail addresses of the corresponding author, a number of keywords describing the content of the paper, preferred session (see Schedule of Events below), and preference for oral or poster presentation. Before submitting, please check any final submission instructions at our website, http://www.phil.gu.se/annimab.html Send the paper to: ANNIMAB-S Dept. of Philosophy Goteborg University Box 200 SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden Authors will be notified of acceptance/rejection by January 15th, 2000. Final papers must then be delivered in electronic form before February 15th, 2000, to ensure publication in time. At least one of the authors has to be registered for the conference at that date. Detailed guidelines for the final submission will be given in connection with the note of acceptance. All accepted contributions will be printed in the proceedings, which will be availableat the conference. SCHEDULE FOR SUBMISSIONS Deadline for full paper submissions: November 1, 1999 Notification of acceptance for publication: January 15, 2000 Deadline for final manuscript submissions: February 15, 2000 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Dr. Rod Adams, Faculty of Information Sciences, University of Hertfordshire Prof. Charles W. Anderson, Dept. of Computer Science, Colorado State University Prof. Soren Brunak, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Dept. of Biotechnology, The Technical University of Denmark Dr. Bo Cartling, Department of Theoretical Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Prof. Rich Caruana, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Dr. Richard Dybowski, Medical Informatics Laboratory, Department of Medicine, St Thomas' Hospital, London Prof. Peter Erdi Department of Biophysics, KFKI Research Institute, Budapest Prof. Laurene V. Fausett, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of South Carolina Aiken Prof. Bernard Fertil, INSERM U494 Imagerie Médicale Quantitative, Paris Prof. Wulfram Gerstner, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne Dr. Roy Goodacre, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Prof. Stephen Grossberg, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University Prof. Torgny Groth, BMSA, University Hospital, Uppsala Prof. Juha Karhunen, Laboratory of Computer and Information Science, Helsinki University of Technology Prof. Samuel Kaski, Neural Networks Research Centre, Helsinki University of Technology Prof. Hans Knutsson, Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linkoping University Prof. Paulo Lisboa, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University Prof. Giovanni Magenes, Dipartimento di Informatica eSistemistica, University of Pavia Dr. Rainer Malaka, European Media Laboratory, Heidelberg Dr. Hanspeter A. Mallot, Max-Planck-Institut fur biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen Prof. Pietro G. Morasso, Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica (DIST), Universitŕ di Genova Dr. Ian Nabney, Neural Computing Research Group, Aston University, Birmingham Dr. Mattias Ohlsson, Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University Dr. Steve Phelps, Smithsonian Tropical, Gamboa, Panama Prof. Tomaso Poggio, Brain Sciences Department and Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT Prof. John G Taylor, Department of Mathematics, King's College, London SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Saturday, May 13 10.00-17.00 Registration Desk Open 12.00 Welcome Address and Opening Lecture: Introduction to ANN in biology and medicine. Helge Malmgren (Goteborg University) 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Overview and Update: Medical applications of ANNs. Richard Dybowski (King's College, London) 15.30 Overview and Update: Biological applications of ANNs. Pierre Baldi (California Institute of Technology) 17.00 Keynote Speech: Teuvo Kohonen (Helsinki University of Technology) 19.00 Welcome Party Sunday, May 14 8.30-9.30 Registration Desk Open 9.00-12.30 AM Session. Keynote Speech: Georg Dorffner (University of Vienna) Oral Sessions: a) Medical image and signal analysis b) Biomolecular applications 13.00 Lunch 14.00-15.00 Registration desk open 15.00-18.30 PM Session. Keynote Speech: Anders Lansner (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm). Oral Session: Computational neuroscience 19.00 Poster Session with Buffet Dinner Monday, May 15 8.30-9.30 Registration Desk Open 9.00-12.30 AM Session. Keynote Speech: Gail Carpenter (Boston University). Oral Session: Learning methods 13.00 Lunch 14.00-17.30 PM Session. Keynote Speech: Wayne Getz (University of California, Berkeley). Oral Sessions: a) Clinical diagnosis and medical decision support b) Biological systems modelling and analysis 18.00 Boat trip to Marstrand with Conference Dinner Tuesday, May 16 9.00-12.00 AM Session. Keynote Speech: Pierre Baldi (California Institute of Technology). Oral Session: Hybrid algorithms 12.15 - 13.00 Summing up: Paulo Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores University) 13.00 Lunch, Closing Remarks SOCIAL PROGRAM The socialprogram includes a welcome party on Saturday, a buffet dinner in connection with the poster session on Sunday, and finally on Monday, a trip with the steamer Bohuslan to the old coastal town of Marstrand where a conference dinner is served. (Informal dress is appropriate for all these occasions.) REGISTRATION The size of the conference will be limited to 225 participants. Registration may be done in advance or, if places are available, on-site. The regular registration fee is SEK 3250 (before March 15, 2000) or SEK 3750 (after March 15). For student discounts and prices for accompanying persons, please go to our website. The registration fee includes access to all lectures and demonstrations, the welcome party (Saturday), buffet dinner (Sunday), boat trip and dinner (Monday), lunches and coffee, refreshments and snacks during breaks, a 4-day public transportation ticket, and the conference proceedings. For accompanying persons there is a subsidised package including lunches, Sunday buffet dinner, and the public transportation pass. Extra tickets can also be reserved for the boat trip with dinner (Monday). To get the registration form, please go to the following address: http://www.phil.gu.se/ann/registration.htm ACCOMMODATION The conference takes place at Quality Hotel 11, which is beautifully situated at the northern bank of Gota River in Goteborg. Conference participants can stay at Quality Hotel 11 at a special price. We also recommend the hotel Novotel at the south bank of the river, with fast ferry transfer to the conference. For other lodging alternatives, please go to our website. THE ORGANISERS The ANNIMAB-1 conference is arranged by the ANNIMAB Society (ANNIMAB-S), which is based at Goteborg University (GU) and is associated with several other groups working with biological or medical applications of neural networks. For further information about the conference and the Society, write to: ANNIMAB-S Dept. of Philosophy Goteborg University Box 200 SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden Phone: (+46) 31 773 5573 Fax: (+46) 31 773 5159 E-mail: annimab(a)www.phil.gu.se http://www.phil.gu.se/annimab.html

26 years, 8 months

Evolution of Language 2000 - CFP

by Gergely Csibra

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by EVOLANG(a)INFRES.ENST.FR follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ( Apologies for multiple copies ) CALL FOR PAPERS [deadline: November 8, 1999] =============== ================================================= conference: T H E E V O L U T I O N O F L A N G U A G E ================================================= Paris April 3-6, 2000 Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications Paris - France http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ ORGANISED BY: Professor Jean Aitchison (Oxford University), Dr. Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Professor Jim Hurford (Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh), Dr. Chris Knight (Department of Sociology, University of East London), Professor Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel). LOCAL ORGANISATION: Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Laleh Ghadakpour (CREA), Frederic Kaplan (Sony CSL), Luc Steels (Sony CSL and Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Francois Yvon (ENST Paris). This will be the third conference in a series concerned with the evolutionary emergence of speech. From a wide range of disciplines, we seek to attract researchers willing to integrate their perspectives with those of modern Darwinism. The aim is to bring together linguists, computer scientists, anthropologists, palaeontologists, ethologists, geneticists, neuroscientists, and other scientists who are concerned with the question of the origin and evolution of language. CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS: --------------------------- Frans B. M. de Waal (Emory University), Bernd Heine (Universitat zu Koln), Ray Jackendoff (Brandeis University), Paul A. Mellars (University of Cambridge), Sue Savage-Rumbaugh (Georgia State University), Herbert Terrace (Columbia University), Michael Tomasello (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: -------------------- Jean Aitchison (Worcester College), Robert C. Berwick (M.I.T.), Derek Bickerton (Univ. Hawai), Ted Briscoe (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory), Rene Carre (ENST), Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig), Jean-Louis Dessalles (ENST Paris), Jean-Marie Hombert (MSH Rhone-Alpes), James R. Hurford (University of Edinburgh), Michel Imbert (Universite de Toulouse), Judy Kegl (University of Southern Maine), Simon Kirby (University of Edinburgh), Chris Knight (University of East London), Andre Langaney (Musee de l'Homme), Frederick J. Newmeyer (University of Washington), Michael Studdert-Kennedy (Haskins Laboratories), Luc Steels (Sony CSL & Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Bernard Victorri (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris). Sponsored by - Ecole Nationale Supirieure des Tilicommunications - Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris - Fondation Louis Leprince-Ringuet - Groupe des Ecoles de Tilicommunications - CNRS - France Telecom CNET Some of the issues that will be discussed are: origin of language ---------------- . origin of phonetic abilities . origin of syntax . origin of symbolic representation semantic abilities . evolutionary significance of language, compatibility with natural selection . language and the origin of culture . chronology of the spread of mankind, and its relationship to language . the continuity/discontinuity of the language faculty with nonhuman communication systems. dynamics of language evolution ---------------------------- . evolution of phonetic systems . evolution of the lexicon . evolution of grammar structures Submission Instructions ======================= Prospective authors are invited to submit extended abstracts or short papers (from 1 to 4 pages, max. 2000 words). Submitted papers will be refereed and selected for oral presentation (25/30 min) on the basis of quality and relevance to the Conference topics. Accepted abstracts and papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings and will be made accessible through the web. Copies of the proceedings will be available at the Conference. Authors of accepted contributions will be asked to submit full length papers for a volume to be published after the Conference by an international publisher. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The deadline for submission is November 8th, 1999. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their papers electronically (MS Word preferred, but most formats will be recognised). Please email your submission to evolang(a)infres.enst.fr Don't forget to include the submission form (see below) in your message. If you are planning to submit a paper or abstract, or if you simply plan to attend the Conference, please send a mail to evolang(a)infres.enst.fr You will be kept informed through e-mail of further useful information. If you cannot send your submission through email, please send four copies (and the submission form) to: J-L Dessalles ENST / Dep. InfRes 46 rue Barrault F-75013 Paris - France Submission Form =============== [ The first author should fill in the submission form and e-mail it to evolang(a)infres.enst.fr ] Last NAME : First Name : Laboratory : Organization/Affiliation : Street Address : City : Postal code: State/Province : Country : E-mail address for correspondence : Fax : Paper title : =========================================================================== Conference web site: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/ Call for papers: http://www.infres.enst.fr/confs/evolang/cfp.html EMAIL: evolang(a)infres.enst.fr

26 years, 8 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, Balog K.

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo/szeminar/folap.htm) ________________________________________________ 1999. oktober 18. (hetfo) 12:30 6. em. 654. K a t a l i n B a l o g Yale University CONCEIVABILITY, POSSIBILITY AND THE MIND-BODY PROBLEM I want to take on the question of what a class of arguments, usually called the Conceivability Arguments, have to say about the mind-body problem. These arguments have two different versions. In one version, considerations of conceivability are taken to support the claim that phenomenal consciousness is not identical, realized by, or supervenient on, physical properties (for example, Kripke 1972, 140-162, Nagel 1974, Robinson 1993, White 1986, Jackson 1998, and Chalmers 1996). According to the other version, there is an explanatory gap between phenomenal and physical levels of description, that does not exist with respect to other higher level descriptions, and that may have metaphysical ramifications. (This argument is formulated by Joseph Levine 1998, although he is himself hesitant to accept the conclusion.) My claim is that these arguments do not succeed in establishing their conclusions. That is because, and I take this to be the primary lesson of the Conceivability Arguments, what they reveal does not have to do with phenomenal consciousness itself, it rather has to do with the nature of phenomenal concepts. In the paper, I will focus on the most elaborate and sophisticated version of the Conceivability Argument for dualism. I first provide a general exposition of the structure of Conceivability Arguments, then I proceed to describe in greater detail Frank Jackson's and David Chalmers' new Conceivability Argument. Finally I construct a reductio that at the same time reveals where the arguments went wrong. -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

26 years, 8 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, Szabo L.

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo/szeminar/folap.htm) ________________________________________________ 1999. oktober 11. (hetfo) 12:30 6. em. 661. E. S z a b o L a s z l o ELTE, MTA Elmeleti Fizikai Kutato Csoport ELTE, Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek EINSTEIN MEGOLDOTTA AZ EPR-BELL PARADOXONT? Úgy tunik igen, sot meg egy sereg mas problemajat a kvantumelmeletnek. "Prizma-modell" neven Arthur Fine 1982-ben egy olyan megoldast javasolt az EPR-Bell problemara, es altalaban a kvantummechanika lokalis-realista interpretaciojara, amelyrol, mint kesobb o maga kideritette, mar Einstein is emlitest tett egy 1936-os cikkeben, illetve nehany Rosenhez es Schrodingerhez irt leveleben. E megoldas nem kapott kulonosebb visszhangot, sot maga Fine sem vette igazan komolyan, hiszen kesobbi cikkeiben úgy ir a Bell-tetelrol, mintha az Einstein-Fine-interpretacio nem is letezne. Ennek oka, hogy tevesen, Fine ezt a megoldast a valosagban vegrehajtott kiserletekben hasznalt detektorok nem 100%-os hatasfokaval hozta kapcsolatba. Az eloadasban az Einstein-Fine-interpretaciot egy új megvilagitasban mutatom be. Megmutatom, hogy semmi koze nincs a detektorok hatasfokanak sokat diszkutalt problemajahoz. A valosagban elvegzett EPR-Bell kiserletek elemzesevel megmutatom, hogy e kiserletek logikai szerkezetuknel fogva teljesen kompatibilisek az Einstein-Fine-interpretacioval, amely viszont tokeletesen feloldja az EPR-Bell paradoxont. Az Aspect-kiserletet modellezo, es a fentieket illusztralo (PC/DOS/full-screen) program letolheto: http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo/realism.htm -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

26 years, 8 months

Ivo Schneider eloadasai

by László E. Szabó

Prof. Ivo Schneider (Munchen) "The philosophical, juridical and mathematical preliminaries of probability theory" cimmel eloadas-sorozatot tart oktober folyaman hetfonkent ( 4.,11.,18.,25.) d.u 4 orakor, a BME Kozp. epulet (Muegyetem rkp. 3) I.emelet 59-ben, angol nyelven. Erdeklodoket szivesen latunk! BME GTK Filozofia es Tudomanytortenet Tanmszek -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

26 years, 8 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, T. P l a c e k

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu) ________________________________________________ 1999. oktober 4. (hetfo) 12:30 6. em. 654. (661 a regi szamozas szerint) T o m a s z P l a c e k Department of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Cracow OUTCOMES IN BRANCHING SPACE-TIME (OBST) -AN ANALYSIS OF BELL'S THEOREM- The framework of BRANCHING SPACE-TIME (BST; cf. Belnap 1992, SYNTHESE 92, pp. 385--434) has recently been extended to allow for the introduction of outcomes of events and the analysis of GHZ theorems. (Kowalski & Placek, forthcoming in BRIT. J. PHIL. SCI. and INT. J. THEOR. PHYS.) In BST, space-time and modality are incorporated in the very structure of the models, which consist of a pair $\langle W, \leq \rangle$, where $W$ is a non-empty set weakly ordered by $\leq$, which is interpreted as `causally accessible from.' Maximal upward directed subsets of $W$ are called `histories,' and proper subsets of histories are called `events.' Two events are called `space-like separated' if neither causally precedes the other. `Atomic outcomes' of an event $E$ are those parts of the event's causal future that split in $E$. The main result of Kowalski & Placek is that the family of outcomes of an event forms a Boolean algebra. The paper also proves that in GHZ setups, there is always a common cause (CC) in the sense of Reichenbach if directions are held fixed, but that there is no single COMMOM common cause (cf. Hofer-Szabo et al., forthcoming in BRIT. J. PHIL. SCI.) accounting for the outcomes of incompatible settings. For an analysis of Bell's theorem, I assign probabilities to outcomes by imposing a classical probability measure on the Boolean algebra of the outcomes of each given event. In the derivation of Bell's theorem, I use probability measures of the form $p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta}(Lx \cap Ry)$, $x,y \in \{+,-\}$, where the subscript indicates that the result is an outcome of the event of measuring the spin projections along directions $\alpha$ on the left and $\beta$ on the right. Probabilities for single results on the left or on the right are calculated from these measures, allowing us to express correlations as $p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta}(Lx \cap Ry) \neq p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta}(Lx) \times p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta}(Ry)$. Since correlations between space-like separated results appear disturbing, it is natural to look for an explanation in terms of a CC located in the results' common past. The CC's outcomes divide histories in such a way that actual runs of a correlation experiment are seen as belonging to two or more varieties differentiated by hidden factors. You may think of these hidden factors as restoring the deterministic order. You may also be more modest and require only that the hidden factors restore the causal order, i.e., that in each sub-population, the correlations disappear. Formally, for space-like separated events $E$ and $F$ with correlated outcomes $e$ and $f$, respectively, a CC is an event C preceding both $e$ and $f$, such that for every atomic outcome $\omega_{i}$ of $C$, $$ p_{E\cup F\cup C}(e \cap f|\omega_{i}) = p_{E\cup F\cup C}(e |\omega_{i}) \times p_{E \cup F\cup C}(f|\omega_{i})$$, where $p_{E \cup F \cup C}$ is defined on the enlarged probability space. Now, for any correlated pair $e,f$, we CAN construct mathematically an enlarged probability space containing such a CC. Moreover, for any finite number of correlations we CAN construct a single large probability space containing a set of distinct CCs, each CC taking care of one correlation. However, in the Bell/Clauser-Horne argument, one wants something more: one postulates a single common CC accounting for all the correlated outcomes of $L\alpha\cup R\beta$, $L\alpha\cup R\beta--\prime$, $L\alpha--\prime\cup R\beta$, and $L\alpha--\prime\cup R\beta--\prime$. Given the standard assumptions of locality and `no conspiracy,' which in our framework take the form \begin{equation*} \begin{split} & \forall \alpha, \beta, \varphi, x p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta\cup C}(Lx) = p_{L\alpha \cup R\varphi\cup C}(Lx)\ & \forall \alpha, \beta, \gamma, y p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta\cup C}(Ry) = p_{L\gamma \cup R\beta\cup C}(Ry) \end{split} \tag{LOCALITY} \end{equation*} \begin{equation*} \forall \alpha, \beta, \gamma, \varphi, i p_{L\alpha \cup R\beta\cup C}(\omega_i) = p_{L\gamma \cup R\varphi\cup C}(\omega_i), \tag{NO CONSPIRACY} \end{equation*} we derive the Bell/CH inequalities, which are empirically violated. Thus, there cannot be a common common cause accounting for the Bell/CH correlations. -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

26 years, 8 months

ICCNS 2000 (fwd)

by Csaba PLEH

Csaba Pleh Cognitive Science Group Department of Psychology Attila Jozsef University, Szeged Petofi sgt 30-34, 6722 Hungary Phone: (36)(62) 454000, extension 3273 Home: Budakeszi Zichy P. u. 4 2092 Hungary, (36)(23) 453932 or 933 Editor, Hungarian Review of Psychology ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:51:47 -0400 From: Cynthia Bradford <cindy(a)cns.bu.edu> To: cindy(a)cns.bu.edu Subject: ICCNS 2000 Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Sep 99 18:55:19 +100 Resent-From: PLEH(a)izabell.elte.hu Resent-To: pleh(a)sol.cc.u-szeged.hu Enclosed below is a conference announcement. If you would prefer not to receive further emails of this type from us, please email me back and your name will be removed from our mailing list. Please accept our apologies in advance if you had asked to be removed from this mailing list at an earlier time. There was some miscommunication with our previous computer systems manager, but please be assured that you will be removed this time, should you make such a request. Sincerely, Cynthia Bradford Department Administrator email: cindy(a)cns.bu.edu ***** CALL FOR PAPERS ***** FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS Tutorials: May 24, 2000 Meeting: May 25-27, 2000 Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ Sponsored by Boston University's Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems This interdisciplinary conference has drawn about 300 people from around the world each time that it has been offered. Last year's conference was attended by scientists from 30 countries. The conference is structured to facilitate intense communication between its participants, both in the formal sessions and during its other activities. As during previous years, the millennium conference will focus on solutions to the fundamental questions: How Does the Brain Control Behavior? How Can Technology Emulate Biological Intelligence? 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. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Session Topics: * vision * spatial mapping and navigation * object recognition * neural circuit models * image understanding * neural system models * audition * mathematics of neural systems * speech and language * robotics * unsupervised learning * hybrid systems (fuzzy, evolutionary, digital) * supervised learning * neuromorphic VLSI * reinforcement and emotion * industrial applications * sensory-motor control * cognition, planning, and attention * other Contributed abstracts must be received, in English, by January 28, 2000. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email by February 29, 2000. A meeting registration fee of $50 for regular attendees and $35 for students must accompany each Abstract. 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. Each Abstract should fit on one 8.5" x 11" white page with 1" margins on all sides, single-column format, single-spaced, Times Roman or similar font of 10 points or larger, printed on one side of the page only. Fax submissions will not be accepted. Abstract title, author name(s), affiliation(s), mailing, and email address(es) should begin each Abstract. An accompanying cover letter should include: Full title of Abstract; corresponding author and presenting author name, address, telephone, fax, and email address; and a first and second choice from among the topics above, including whether it is biological (B) or technological (T) work. Example: first choice: vision (T); second choice: neural system models (B). (Talks will be 15 minutes long. Posters will be up for a full day. Overhead, slide, and VCR facilities will be available for talks.) Abstracts which do not meet these requirements or which are submitted with insufficient funds will be returned. Accepted Abstracts will be printed in the conference proceedings volume. No longer paper will be required. The original and 3 copies of each Abstract should be sent to: Cynthia Bradford, Boston University, Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems, 677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215. REGISTRATION INFORMATION: Early registration is recommended. To register, please fill out the registration form below. Student registrations must be accompanied by a letter of verification from a department chairperson or faculty/research advisor. If accompanied by an Abstract or if paying by check, mail to the address above. If paying by credit card, mail as above, or fax to (617) 353-7755, or email to cindy(a)cns.bu.edu. The registration fee will help to pay for a reception, 6 coffee breaks, and the meeting proceedings. STUDENT FELLOWSHIPS: Fellowships for PhD candidates and postdoctoral fellows may be available to cover meeting travel and living costs. This will be confirmed one way or the other, and broadly advertised if confirmed, before the deadline to apply for fellowship support, which will be January 28, 2000. Applicants will be notified by email by February 29, 2000. Each application should include the applicant's CV, including name; mailing address; email address; current student status; faculty or PhD research advisor's name, address, and email address; relevant courses and other educational data; and a list of research articles. A letter from the listed faculty or PhD advisor on official institutional stationery should accompany the application and summarize how the candidate may benefit from the meeting. Students who also submit an Abstract need to include the registration fee with their Abstract. Fellowship checks will be distributed after the meeting. REGISTRATION FORM Fourth International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems Boston University 677 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Tutorials: May 24, 2000 Meeting: May 25-27, 2000 FAX: (617) 353-7755 http://cns-web.bu.edu/meetings/ (Please Type or Print) Mr/Ms/Dr/Prof: _____________________________________________________ Name: ______________________________________________________________ Affiliation: _______________________________________________________ Address: ___________________________________________________________ City, State, Postal Code: __________________________________________ Phone and Fax: _____________________________________________________ Email: _____________________________________________________________ The conference registration fee includes the meeting program, reception, two coffee breaks each day, and meeting proceedings. The tutorial registration fee includes tutorial notes and two coffee breaks. CHECK ONE: ( ) $75 Conference plus Tutorial (Regular) ( ) $50 Conference plus Tutorial (Student) ( ) $50 Conference Only (Regular) ( ) $35 Conference Only (Student) ( ) $25 Tutorial Only (Regular) ( ) $15 Tutorial Only (Student) METHOD OF PAYMENT (please fax or mail): [ ] Enclosed is a check made payable to "Boston University". Checks must be made payable in US dollars and issued by a US correspondent bank. Each registrant is responsible for any and all bank charges. [ ] I wish to pay my fees by credit card (MasterCard, Visa, or Discover Card only). Name as it appears on the card: _____________________________________ Type of card: _______________________________________________________ Account number: _____________________________________________________ Expiration date: ____________________________________________________ Signature: __________________________________________________________

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PSYC Call for Commentators: HYPERSTRUCTURE/BRAIN/COGNITION

by Stevan Harnad

Richardson: HYPERSTRUCTURE IN BRAIN AND COGNITION http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.031 The target whose abstract appears below has just appeared in PSYCOLOQUY, a refereed journal of Open Peer Commentary sponsored by the American Psychological Association. Qualified professional biobehavioral, neural or cognitive scientists are hereby invited to submit Open Peer Commentary on it. Please email or see websites for Instructions if you are not familiar with format or acceptance criteria for PSYCOLOQUY commentaries (all submissions are refereed). To link to the full text of this article: http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.031 To submit articles and commentaries or to seek information: EMAIL: psyc(a)pucc.princeton.edu URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/psyc.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/psyc ----------------------------------------------------------------------- psycoloquy.99.10.031.hyperstructure.richardson Thu Sep 23 1999 ISSN 1055-0143 (71 pars, 60 refs, 6 figs, 1 table, 1389 lines) PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the American Psychological Association (APA) Copyright 1999 Ken Richardson HYPERSTRUCTURE IN BRAIN AND COGNITION Target Article on Hyperstructure Ken Richardson Centre for Human Development & Learning The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA United Kingdom k.richardson(a)open.ac.uk ABSTRACT: This target article tries to identify the informational content of experience underlying object percepts and concepts in complex, changeable environments, in a way which can be related to higher cerebral functions. In complex environments, repetitive experience of feature- and object-images in static, canonical form is rare, and this remains a problem in current theories of conceptual representation. The only reliable information available in natural experience consists of nested covariations or 'hyperstructures'. These need to be registered in a representational system. Such representational hyperstructures can have novel emergent structures and evolution into 'higher' forms of representation, such as object concepts and event- and social-schemas. Together, these can provide high levels of predictability. A sketch of a model of hyperstructural functions in object perception and conception is presented. Some comparisons with related views in the literature of the recent decades are made, and some empirical evidence is briefly reviewed. KEYWORDS: complexity, covariation, features, hypernetwork, hyperstructure, object concepts, receptive field, representation http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/cgi/psyc/newpsy?10.031

26 years, 8 months

TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM, B. L o e w e r

by László E. Szabó

ELTE TTK Tudomanytortenet es Tudomanyfilozofia Tanszek Budapest, Pazmany P. setany 1/A TUDOMANYFILOZOFIA SZEMINARIUM (http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo/szeminar/folap.htm) ________________________________________________ 1999. Szeptember 27. (hetfo !) 12:30 6. em. 661. B a r r y L o e w e r Rutgers University Collegium Budapest PROBABILITY AND DETERMINISM Although probability is essential to the formulation (and evaluation) of scientific theories and although a great deal is known about how to employ probabilistic concepts, there is still philosophical controversy concerning the nature of probability. Some hold that only probability concerns only degrees of belief (either subjective or constrained by "objective" rules) while others hold that it concerns mind-independent features of reality. The latter view divides among those who hold that it concerns only frequencies (actual or hypothetical) and those who hold that it concerns a "causal propensity." The nature of probability is especially puzzling when the underlying dynamics is completely deterministic as in classical mechanics and Bohm's version of quantum mechanics. Some claim that when the dynamics is deterministic then all objective probabilities are 1 or 0. But this seems at odd with the scientific practice. In my talk I will review some of the main ideas concerning the nature of probability and also an idea suggested by David Lewis. According to Lewis probability concerns an objective feature of reality that supervenes on the totality of propositions not concerning chance. Whether or not Lewis' account is correct for dynamical chances I argue that it provides a good account of chance statements when the dynamics are deterministic. -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

26 years, 8 months

Filmvetites

by László E. Szabó

M e g h i v o Az alkotok es az XTV meghivja ont az EMBER VAGY ORDOG - KI VOLT LAKATOS IMRE? c. film vetitesere a Taban moziba (1016 Bp. Krisztina krt. 87-89.) A vetites ideje: 1999. szeptember 22. (szerda) 18 ora Rendezte: MEREI ANNA -- Laszlo E. Szabo Department of Theoretical Physics Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest H-1518 Budapest, Pf. 32. Phone: (36-1)2090-555/6671 Fax: (36-1)372-2509 Home: (36-1)200-7318 http://hps.elte.hu/~leszabo

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