August 1997, Volume 14, No. 8 Calendar

SPEECH RECOGNITION Intelligent Systems Report is an official sponsor of SpeechTEK '97, held Sep. 30-Oct.1 in New York, N.Y. Contact Debra O'Keefe, Comtek International, 43 Danbury Road, Wilton, CT 06897, (203) 834-1122, Fax: (203) 762-0773; http://www.speechtek.com AI Aug. 14-17: 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '97) Newport Beach, Calif. Contact AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (415) 328-3123, Fax: (415) 321-4457; kdd@aaai.org; http://www.aaai.org Aug. 18-20: 6th Scandinavian Conference on AI (SCAI '97) Helsinki, Finland. Contact Paivi Kuuppelomaki, University of Helsinki, Dept. of Computer Science, P.O. Box 26, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland, tel.: 358 9 708 51, Fax: 358 9 708 444 441 Aug. 23-29: 15th International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI '97) Nagoya, Japan. Contact Michael Goergeff, Australia AI Institute, 171 Latrobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000, Australia, tel.: 61-3-9663-7922, Fax: 61-3-9663-7937; info@ijcai.org; http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97 Sep. 16-19: 5th Congress of the Italian Association for AI (AI*IA '97) Rome, Italy. Contact Marco Schaerf, Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Via Salaria 113, 00198 Rome, Italy, tel: 39 6 4991 8332, Fax: 39 6 8530 0849; schaef@dis.uniroma1.it Sep. 24-25: Rethinking Artificial Intelligence Cambridge, Mass. Contact Caroline Green, Center for Management Research, 55 William Street, Wellesley, MA 02181, (617) 239-1111, Fax: (617) 239-1546 Oct. 15-16: Expersys '97: AI Applications Sunderland, U.K. Contact IITT International, 24 rue des Mimosas, F-93460 Gournay sur Marne, France, tel: 33 1 64683600, Fax: 33 1 64685480; http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/IITT_INT Oct. 15-18: 10th International Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems (ISMIS '97) Charlotte, N.C. Contact Zbigniew Ras, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Computer Science, Charlotte, NC 28233, (704) 547-4567, Fax: (704) 547-3516; http://www.aaai.org Mar. 16-20, 1998: 4th World Congress on Expert Systems/10th International Symposium on AI Mexico City, Mexico. Contact Rogelio Soto, Centro de Inteligencia Artificial, ITESM, Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada # 2501 Sur, Monterrey, N.L. 64849, Mexico, (52-8) 328-4197, Fax: (52-8) 328-4189; rsoto@campus.mty.itesm.mx; http://www-cia.mty.itesm.mx/wces98 Mar. 23-25: Integrating Robotic Research: Taking the Next Leap Palo Alto, Calif. Contact David Kortenkamp, Metrica Inc., NASA Johnson Space Center — MC: ER2, Houston, TX 77058; david.m.kortenkamp1@jsc.nasa.gov; http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/~schultz/aaai98 May 10-13: 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Agents Minneapolis, Minn. Contact http://www.cis.udel.edu/~agents98 May 17-20: 11th International FLAIRS Conference Sanibel Island, Fla. Contact Diane Cook, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Texas at Arlington, 416 Yates, Arlington, TX 76019; cook@cse.uta.edu; http://www-cse.uta.edu/~cook/flairs98.html June 7-10: 4th International Conference on AI Planning Systems (AIPS '98) Pittsburgh, Pa. Contact Reid Simmons, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213; http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aips98 June 28-July 1: 6th International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB '98) Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Contact Janice Glasgow, Dept. of Computing and Information Science, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont., Canada K7L 3N6; ismb98@qucis.queensu.ca; http://www-lbit.iro.umontreal.ca/ISMB98 July 26-30: 15th National Conference on AI (AAAI '98) Madison, Wis. Contact AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (415) 328-3123, Fax: (415) 321-4457; ncai@aaai.org; http://www.aaai.org July 26-30: 10th Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI '98) Madison, Wis. Contact AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (415) 328-3123, Fax: (415) 321-4457; iaai@aaai.org; http://www.aaai.org Aug. 23-28: European Conference on AI (ECAI '98) Brighton, U.K. Contact Centre for Advanced Software Applications, Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, U.K., tel.: 44-1273-678448, Fax: 44-1273-671320; ecai98@cogs.sussex.ac.uk; http://www.cogs.sussex.ac.uk/ecai98 NEURAL NETWORKS Sep. 24-26: Neural Network for Signal Processing (NNSP '97) Amelia Island Plantation, Fla. Contact Jose Principe, NNSP '97, University of Florida, 444 CSE Bldg. # 42, P.O. Box 116130, Gainesville, FL 32611; http://www.cnel.ufl.edu/nnsp97 Oct. 6-8: Neural Networks for Identification, Control, Robotics and Signal/Image Processing Hamamatsu, Japan. Contact Vincenzo Piuri, Dept. Electronics & Information, Politechnico di Milano, piazza L. da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy, tel.: 39 2 2399 3606, Fax: 39 2 2399 3411; piuri@elet.polimi.it Oct. 8-10: 7th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IACNN '97) Lausanne, Switzerland. Contact ICANN '97 Secretariat, LAMI-EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Fax: 41 21 693 5656; icann97@epfl.ch; http://www.epfl.ch/icann97 Nov. 9-12: Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE '97) St. Louis, Mo. Contact Cihan Dagli, Smart Engineering Systems Laboratory, Dept. of Engineering Management, University of Missouri-Rolla, 1870 Miner Circle, Rolla, MO 65409, (573) 341-6576, Fax: (573) 341-6567; http://www.umr.edu/~annie Nov. 24-28: 4th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP '97) Dunedin, New Zealand. Contact Dept. of Information Science, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand, tel.: 64 3 479 8142, Fax: 64 3 479 8311; iconip97@otago.ac.nz; http://divcom. otago.ac.nz:800/com/infosci/kel/conferen.htm May 4-9, 1998: World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI '98) Anchorage, Ak. Contact Meeting Management, 2603 Main Street # 690, Irvine, CA 92614, (714) 752-8205, Fax: (714) 752-7444; MeetingMgt@aol.com VIRTUAL REALITY Sep. 10-12: International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia '97 Geneva, Switzerland. Contact Laurent Moccozet, MIRALab CUI, 24 Rue du General Dufour, CH1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland, tel.: 41 22 705 77 64, Fax: 41 22 705 77 80; laurent.moccozet @cui.unige.ch Sep. 14-17: Design for Manufacturing: Virtual Design and Prototyping Sacramento, Calif. Contact Rajit Gadh, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, (608) 262-9058, Fax: (608) 265-2316; gadh@engr.wisc.edu Sep. 15-17: Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '97) Lausanne, Switzerland. Contact Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Computer Graphics Lab, CH 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, tel: 41 21 693 5214, Fax: 41 21 693 5328; thalmann@lig.di.epfl.ch March 14-18, 1998: IEEE Virtrual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS '98) Atlanta, Ga. Contact Grigore Burdea, Rutgers University, CoRE Bldg., Room 721, Frelinghuyser Road, Piscataway, NJ 08855, (909) 445-5309; http://www.eece.unm.edu/eece/conf/vrais FUZZY LOGIC Sep. 8-12: 5th European Congress on Intelligent Techniques and Soft Computing (EUFIT '97) Aachen, Germany. Contact Hans-Jurgen Zimmerman, ELITE Foundation, Promenade 9, 52076 Aachen, Germany, tel.: 49 2408 6969, Fax: 49 2408 94582; http://www.mitgmbh.de/elite/eufit.html Sep. 21-24: North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Meeting (NAFIPS '97) Syracuse, N.Y. Contact Can Isik, Syracuse University, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse, NY 13244, (315) 443-1125, Fax: (315) 443-2583; http://www.cat.syr.edu/~cisik/nafips97.html ARTIFICIAL LIFE Sep. 1-2: Bio-Computing and Emergent Computation (BCE '97) Skovde, Sweden. Contact BCEC@ida.his.se; http://www.his.se/ida/~bjorne/BCE97 July 22-25: 3rd Genetic Programming Conference (GP '98) Madison, Wis. Contact AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025, (415) 328-3123, Fax: (415) 321-4457; gp@aaai.org; http://www.genetic-programming.org

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