From: Istvan Berkeley <Istvan.Berkeley(a)UAlberta.CA> Subject: Workshop To: philosop(a)majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca (Philosop List) Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:20:58 -0600 (MDT) Cc: philos-l(a)LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Sender: owner-philosop(a)majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca Reply-To: Istvan Berkeley <Istvan.Berkeley(a)UAlberta.CA> Please feel free to distribute the following announcement and bring it to the attention of anyone who might be interested. CONNECTIONISM FOR COGNITIVISTS: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS On the 25-27 May, 1996, a major international workshop on recent theoretical and applicational aspects of network architectures will be held at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The workshop has a unique structure: approximately half of it will be devoted to presentations of theoretical work by eminent researchers, while the other half will involve hands-on introductions to new software that allows for the use of learning algorithms and techniques for hidden-unit activation analysis that are not available to researchers whose main knowledge of networks stems from the seminal 1986 PDP volumes by Rumelhart, McClelland, et al., or who are, indeed, unfamiliar with the details of *any* PDP modelling techniques, but who would like to understand in detail why they have produced so much interest and debate among cognitive scientists and others. For the second purpose, all registrants will have access to workstations. The workshop has been designed to appeal to, and to be accessible to, researchers from a wide range of disciplines, especially including cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, computer science and telecommunications engineering. We stress that no particular disciplinary background, or technical experience with network models, will be presupposed in the design of the workshop. Principal speakers include: David Rumelhart, Stanford Jerome Feldman, Berkeley/ICSI Paul Skokowski, Stanford Christopher Thornton, Sussex Malcolm Forster, Wisconsin at Madison John Bullinaria, Birkbeck College, London Istvan Berkeley, Alberta/Southwestern Louisiana Please note that registration space is limited, and registrations will be accepted in a first-come first-serve basis. Dates: May 25-27, 1996 Registration fees: Regular: $75.00 (CDN) Student: $35.00 (CDN) Banquet (optional): $35.00 (CDN) REGISTRATION PROCEDURES Those wishing to attend the conference may register either electronically, or by mail. To register electronically, send the following information to <dross(a)aix1.uottawa.ca>ca>: NAME: AFFILIATION: REGULAR/STUDENT?: BANQUET (Y/N?): ACCOMMODATION PREFERENCES (no. of nights, preference as between student residence accommodation [subject to availability] or hotel): MAILING ADDRESS: E-MAIL: Electronic registrations will be considered confirmed upon receipt of a cheque for the appropriate amount, in either Canadian dollars or the U.S. equivalent. Cheques should be made payable to CARLETON UNIVERSITY, and should be sent to the address given for postal registration below. To register by post, send the information indicated above, with a cheque for the appropriate amount, to: CONNECTIONISM c/o Professor Don Ross Department of Philosophy Morisset Hall University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON CANADA K1N 6N5 e-mail: <dross(a)aix1.uottawa.ca> -- Istvan S. N. Berkeley E-mail: istvan(a)gpu.srv.ualberta.ca or, Dept. of Philosophy & istvan(a)psych.ualberta.ca Biological Computation Project, 4-108 Humanities Center University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Tel: (403) 436-4182 CANADA, T6G 2E5 Fax: (403) 437-2261