Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!rutgers!njin!princeton!pucc!PSYC From: harnad@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad) Newsgroups: sci.psychology.digest Subject: PSYCOLOQUY V2 #6 (Conferences: 279 lines) Message-ID: <9106260404.AA02269@clarity.Princeton.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 91 22:59:09 GMT Sender: VMNNPOST@pucc.Princeton.EDU (Listserv to Netnews Gateway) Organization: Listserv to Netnews Gateway at pucc.Princeton.EDU Lines: 274 Approved: PSYC@PUCC PSYCOLOQUY ISSN 1055-0143 Tue, 25 Jun 91 Volume 2 : Issue 6 Genetic Algorithm Course, July 22-26, 1991 ICGA-91 Preliminary Program / Call for Participation COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION CONFERENCE, April 3-5, 1992 NWAVE 20 Call For Papers SECOND MEETING ON MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE 2ND CALL, COMPUTING & VALUES CONFERENCE, AUG 12-16 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "David E. Goldberg" Subject: Genetic Algorithm Course, July 22-26, 1991 A five-day short course entitled "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning" will be presented at Stanford University's Western Institute in Computer Science on July 22-26 by David E. Goldberg (Illinois) and John R. Koza (Stanford). The course presents in-depth coverage of GA mechanics, theory, and application in search, optimization, and machine learning. Students will be encouraged to solve their own problems in hands-on computer workshops monitored by the course instructors. For further information regarding this course contact Joleen Barnhill, Western Institute in Computer Science, PO Box 1238, Magalia, CA 95954, (916) 873-0575, email: barnhill@hudson.stanford.edu. ------------------------------ From: booker@starbase.MITRE.ORG (Lashon Booker) Subject: ICGA-91 Preliminary Program / Call for Participation Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms ICGA91 13-16 July, 1991 Univ. California San Diego La Jolla, CA PRELIMINARY PROGRAM The Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-91), will be held July 13-16, 1991 at the University of California - San Diego in La Jolla, CA. This meeting brings together an international community of scientists from academia and industry interested in algorithms suggested by the evolutionary process of natural selection. Topics of particular interest include: Holland's Genetic Algorithm and Classifier Systems, machine learning and optimization using these systems, and their relations to other learning paradigms (e.g., connectionist networks). Papers discussing how genetic algorithms and classifier systems are related to biological modeling issues (e.g., evolution of nervous systems, computational ethology, artificial life) have been encouraged. CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS: Kenneth A. De Jong and J. David Schaffer Vice Chair: David E. Goldberg Program Co-Chairs: Richard K. Belewand and Lashon B. Booker Publicity Chair: David E. Goldberg Financial Chair: Gilbert Syswerda Local Arrangements: Richard K. Belew INVITED SPEAKERS The ICGA-91 conference will officially begin on Saturday afternoon, 13 July with a series of invited presentations by leading researchers from computer science, mathematical biology, economics and philosophy: John Holland (University of Michigan) "Complex Adaptive Systems" Marcus Feldman (Stanford University) "Optimality and the Evolution of Recombination" "Artificial Adaptive Agents in Economics" William Wimsatt (University of Chicago) "Developmental constraints on evolving systems" After these individual presentations and a dinner break, the guests will participate in a panel discussion delineating important research questions for the rest of the ICGA-91 meeting. A limited fund has been set aside to assist students and scientists with their travel expenses. If you are interested in obtaining such assistance and have no other form of travel support, send a letter describing your situation and needs to: Gilbert Syswerda International Society for Genetic Algorithms 53 Lake Street Winchester, MA 01890 (syswerda@bbn.com) Students should have their advisor certify their student status and that other funds are not available. Registration form and payment should be sent to: Lene Hartman Conference Manager, I.C.G.A. UCSD 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0513, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: dcp@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu (dawn (styres) phillips) Subject: COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION CONFERENCE, April 3-5, 1992 The State University of New York at Buffalo will hold a conference ``COGNITION AND REPRESENTATION'' on April 3-5, 1992. The Conference is jointly sponsored by the Center for Cognitive Science, the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Computer Science. The conference will have three interrelated foci: (1) Types of representing: iconic, symbolic, network. (2) Representation and Cognition. There are two subfoci: (a) Natural language understanding, and (b) Perception. Invited papers will be given by Charles Fillmore, Jerry Fodor, Paul Smolensky, and Bonnie Webber. There is a time allotted for a limited number of submitted papers. Futher information about the conference, with directions for sub- mitting papers, may be obtained by writing the Center for Cognitive Sci- ence, 651 Baldy Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York 14260, or via electronic mail: dcp@sybil.cs.buffalo.edu ------------------------------ From: "Prf. Ralph Fasold" Subject: NWAVE 20 Call For Papers ____ ____ ____ |\ | | | /\ \ / | | | | | \ | | /\ | / \ \ / |__ ___| | | | \ | | / \ | /____\ \ / | | | | | \| |/ \| / \ \/ |____ |_____ |____| ________________________________________ | | | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | |________________________________________| NWAVE 20 will be held at Georgetown University on October 3 - 6, 1991. Papers in all areas of language variation and change are solicited. Send eight copies of a one-page abstract (10-point or larger font) along with a separate card con- taining the author's name, address, affilication, telephone number and e-mail address. The paper's title should appear on both the abstract and the separate card. The abstract should not identify the author. Send abstracts to: NWAVE 20 Program Committee Department of Linguistics Georgetown University Washington, DC 20057 Or by e-mail to: fasold@guvax.bitnet camjon@guvax.bitnet The program will include a special American Dialect Society session and a colloquium on the sociolinguistics of the deaf community (sign language in- terpreters provided). Invited speakers: Charles-James Bailey, Henrietta Cedergren, William Labov, Walt Wolfram. ------------------------------ From: Alexis_Manaster_Ramer@MTS.cc.Wayne.edu Subject: SECOND MEETING ON MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE May 17-18, 1991 Yorktown Heights, New York, USA Sponsored by the Association for Mathematics of Language (A Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics) The Workshop on Mathematics of Language will take place on May 17 and 18 in The Tarrytown Hilton Inn in Tarrytown, New York (just outside of Yorktown Heights, N.Y). The workshop will begin at 9:30 am on May 17 and end at approximately 6:30 pm on May 18. Please note that attendance will be restricted to 80 parti- cipants. Registration will be on a first come, first served basis. To preregister please send a note to MOL2@WATSON.IBM.COM with the following information: :name. :institution. :e-mail. :phone. If we have not run out of space by then, you will be asked to send in a check for $40 (registration at the door will be $50). All payments will have to be by check. If you have any questions, please contact: Lisa Braden-Harder (MOL 2 -- Local Arrangements) e-mail: MOL2 at WATSON.IBM.COM tel. (914) 784-7849 ------------------------------ From: Walter Maner Subject: 2ND CALL, COMPUTING & VALUES CONFERENCE, AUG 12-16 The National Conference on Computing and Values will convene August 12-16, 1991, in New Haven, CT. N C C V / 91 is a project of the National Science Foundation and the Research Center on Computing and Society. Specific themes (tracks) include - Computer Privacy & Confidentiality - Computer Security & Crime - Ownership of Software & Intellectual Property - Equity & Access to Computing Resources - Teaching Computing & Values - Policy Issues in the Campus Computing Environment The workshop structure of the conference limits participation to approximately 400 registrants, but space *IS* still available at this time (mid-May). Confirmed speakers include Ronald E. Anderson, Daniel Appleman, John Perry Barlow, Tora Bikson, Della Bonnette, Leslie Burkholder, Terrell Ward Bynum, David Carey, Jacques N. Catudal, Gary Chapman, Marvin Croy, Charles E. M. Dunlop, Batya Friedman, Donald Gotterbarn, Barbara Heinisch, Deborah Johnson, Mitch Kapor, John Ladd, Marianne LaFrance, Ann-Marie Lancaster, Doris Lidtke, Walter Maner, Diane Martin, Keith Miller, James H. Moor, William Hugh Murray, Peter Neumann, George Nicholson, Helen Nissenbaum, Judith Perolle, Amy Rubin, Sanford Sherizen, John Snapper, Richard Stallman, T. C. Ting, Willis Ware, Terry Winograd, and Richard A. Wright. The registration fee is low ($175) and deeply discounted air fares are available into New Haven. To request a registration packet, please send your name, your email AND paper mail addresses to ... BITNet MANER@BGSUOPIE.BITNET InterNet maner@andy.bgsu.edu (129.1.1.2) or, by fax: (419) 372-8061 or, by phone: (419) 372-8719 (answering machine) (419) 372-2337 (secretary) or, by regular mail: Professor Walter Maner Dept. of Computer Science Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43403 USA With best wishes, Terrell Ward Bynum and Walter Maner, Conference Co-chairs ------------------------------ PSYCOLOQUY is sponsored by the Science Directorate of the American Psychological Association (202) 955-7653 Co-Editors: (scientific discussion) (professional/clinical discussion) Stevan Harnad Perry London, Dean, Cary Cherniss (Assoc Ed.) Psychology Department Graduate School of Applied Graduate School of Applied Princeton University and Professional Psychology and Professional Psychology Rutgers University Rutgers University Assistant Editor: Malcolm Bauer Psychology Department Princeton University End of PSYCOLOQUY Digest ******************************