******************************************************************************** Machine Learning List: Volume 19, Number 4 Wednesday, June 19, 2007 ************************************************************************* Contents Call for Organizational Proposals 2008 International Community in Grammatical Inference Call For Papers Practical Statistical Relational Learning Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Machine Learning in Space: Extending Our Reach IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Principles and Practice of Multiple Learning Systems ICAPS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning Conference on Artificial General Intelligence Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval IEEE International Conference on Data Mining ICAPS Workshop on Planning in Games Mexican International Conference on AI Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems Implementation of Constraint LOgic Programming Systems Australasian Data Mining Conference Workshop on Prior Conceptual Knowledge in ML and Knowledge Discovery Workshop on Constraint-Based Mining and Learning ICAPS Satellite Events Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems Intelligent User Interfaces ICAPS Doctoral consortium ICAPS System Demonstrations International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications Particle Swarms: The Second Decade Probabilistic Relational Learning Workshop on Meta-Learning Conference on Logic for Programming, AI, and Reasoning Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Workshop on Answer Set Programming Conference on Machine Learning and Applications Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conference on Development and Learning Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence International Conference on Logic Programming WORLDCOMP'07 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Conference on Neural Networks Career Opportunities CS Position at The AI Center at SRI International Research Assistant Position at University Dortmund, Germany Research Fellowship Kurt Goedel Centenary Research Prize Fellowships Post-Doctoral Research NLP and ML Post-Docs at University of Illinois Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Berlin Summer School European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ************************************************************************ The Machine Learning List is moderated. Contributions should be relevant to the scientific study of machine learning. Please send submissions for distribution to: ml@isle.org. For requests to be added, removed, or to change your email address, send email to: ml-request@isle.org. To keep mailings to a manageable size, please keep submissions brief. For meeting announcements, we will publicize only the name, location, URL, and key dates. The ML List moderator reserves the right to omit/edit submissions to meet these criteria. ************************************************************************* Date: May 11, 2007 From: Menno van Zaanen Subject: 2008 International Community in Grammatical Inference CALL FOR ORGANIZATION PROPOSALS The International Community in Grammatical Inference (ICGI) invites proposals for the organization of its 2008 event. ICGI-2008 will be the ninth in a series of successful biennial international conferences in the area of grammatical inference. The purpose of this call is to invite groups interested in hosting the conference to submit proposals. For details of ICGI, see http://eurise.univ-st-etienne.fr/gi Proposal submission: groups interested in organizing ICGI 2008 should contact Colin de la Higuera (cdlh@univ-st-etienne.fr), chairman of the ICGI steering committee, before May 30th, expressing their interest to do so. The proposal will be then made to the ICGI steering committee, who will decide by June 30. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 1, 2007 From: Pedro Domingos Subject: Practical Statistical Relational Learning Call for Participation Tutorial on Practical Statistical Relational Learning at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Corvallis, Oregon, USA, June 20-24, 2007 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pedrod/psrl.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 9, 2007 From: James Z. Wang Subject: Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Call for Papers IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence Special Issue on Real-World Image Annotation and Retrieval http://www.computer.org/portal/cms_docs_transactions/transactions /tpami/cfp/Emerging.pdf Paper Submission Deadline: September 12, 2007 Publication: November 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 10, 2007 From: Kiri Wagstaff Subject: Machine Learning in Space: Extending Our Reach Call for Papers Machine Learning in Space: Extending Our Reach Special Issue of the Machine Learning Journal http://www.wkiri.com/ml4space Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 Camera-Ready Deadline: October 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 22, 2007 From: Jia Hu Subject: IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence Call for Papers 2007 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI'07) Silicon Valley, California, November 2-5, 2007 Official: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/wi07/wi/ Mirror: http://www.maebashi-it.org/wi07/wi/ Tutorial Proposal Deadline: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: August 17, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 26, 2007 From: Gavin Brown subject: Principles and Practice of Multiple Learning Systems call for Papers Principles and Practice of Multiple Learning Systems at the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~gbrown/ppmls/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 28, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 27, 2007 From: Ugur Kuter Subject: ICAPS Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning First Call for Papers Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Planning and Learning (AIPL-07) Providence, Rhode Island, September 22, 2007 http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ukuter/icaps07aipl/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, 2007 (Extended) Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 27, 2007 From: Pei Wang Subject: Conference on Artificial General Intelligence First Call for Papers 1st Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) Memphis, Tennessee, USA, March 1-3, 2008 http://www.agi-08.org Paper Submission Deadline: September 30, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 29, 2007 From: Thorsten Joachims Subject: Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval Call for Papers Learning to Rank for Information Retrieval 2007 (LR4IR'07) Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 23-27, 2007 http://www.mail-archive.com/uai@engr.orst.edu/msg01268.html Paper Submission Deadline: June 8, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 5, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2007 From: Prithviraj Dasgupta Subject: IEEE Conference on Data Mining Call for Papers 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM '07) Omaha, Nebraska, USA, October 28 - 31, 2007 http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/icdm2007/ Papers Submission Deadline: June 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2007 From: Carlos Linares Subject: ICAPS Workshop Planning in Games PG 2007 First Call for Papers ICAPS 2007 Workshop on Planning in Games (ICAPS PG 07) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September, 23, 2007 http://www.plg.inf.uc3m.es/icaps-pg2007/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, 2007 (Extended) Camera-ready Deadline: July 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 7, 2007 From: Alexander Gelbukh (MICAI-2007) Subject: Mexican International Conference on AI Call for Papers 6th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 07) Aguascalientes, Mexico, November 5-9, 2007 http://www.MICAI.org/2007 Paper Submission Deadline: June 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 10, 2007 From: benhamou Subject: Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems First Call for Papers 7th International Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems To be held at the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2007) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 23, 2007 http://www.cmi.univ-mrs.fr/~benhamou/symcon07/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: August 3, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 10, 2007 From: Salvador Abreu Subject: Implementation of Constraint LOgic Programming Systems Call For Papers Colloquium on Implementation of Constraint LOgic Programming Systems To be held in conjunction with the 23rd International Conference on Logic Programming Porto, Portugal, October 8-13, 2007 http://www.di.uevora.pt/ciclops07/ Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 (strict) Camera-ready Deadline: August 20, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 10, 2007 From: Longbing Cao Subject: Australasian Data Mining Conference Call For Papers The Australasian Data Mining Conference Queensland, Australia, December 3-4, 2007 http://ausdm07.togaware.com/ Co-located with the 20th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI07) http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/conferences/austai/ Paper Submissions Deadline: July 31, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 11, 2007 From: Filip Zelezny Subject: Workshop on Prior Conceptual Knowledge in ML and KD Call for Papers ECML/PKDD'07 Workshop on Prior Conceptual Knowledge in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery (PriCKL'07) Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007 http://keg.vse.cz/prickl07/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 28, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 11, 2007 From: Siegfried Nijssen Subject: Workshop on Constraint-Based Mining and Learning Call for Contributions International Workshop on Constraint-Based Mining and Learning (CMILE2007) To be held at ECML/PKDD 2007, Warsaw, Poland, September 21, 2007 http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/~dtai/CMILE07 Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 13, 2007 1:23 AM From: Adi Botea Subject: ICAPS Satellite Events Call for Papers/Participation Satellite Events Hosted at The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2007) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 22-26, 2007 http://www.icaps07.icaps-conference.org WORKSHOP PROGRAM Submission Deadline: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 27, 2007 TUTORIAL PROGRAM DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007 SYSTEM DEMONSTRATIONS Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 27, 2006 KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING COMPETITION (ICKEPS) http://www.andorfer.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~edelkamp/ickeps/ Submission Deadline: June 15, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 13, 2007 From: Kanna Rajan Subject: Workshop on Planning and Execution for Real-World Systems Call for Papers and Participation 3rd Workshop on Planning and Plan Execution for Real-World Systems Principles and Practices for Planning in Execution Held in conjunction with 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'07) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 22-26, 2007 http://www.icaps07.icaps-conference.org http://www.mbari.org/autonomy/ICAPS07-workshop/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 27, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 15, 2007 From: Pearl Pu Subject: Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces Call for Papers ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI08) Canary Islands, Spain, January 13-16, 2008 http://www.iuiconf.org/ Paper Submission Deadline: October 1, 2007, 5pm US EDT (2100 UTC) Tutorial Proposal Deadline: August 27, 2007, 5pm US EDT (2100 UTC) Workshop Proposal Deadline: August 27, 2007, 5pm US EDT (2100 UTC) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 16, 2007 From: Adi Botea Subject: ICAPS System Demonstrations Call for Participation System Demonstrations at the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'07) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 22-26, 2007 http://www.icaps07.icaps-conference.org Paper Submission Deadline: June 22, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 16, 2007 From: Adi Botea Subject: ICAPS Doctoral Consortium Call for Papers and Participation Doctoral Consortium at the 17th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'07) Providence, Rhode Island, USA, September 22-26, 2007 http://www.icaps07.icaps-conference.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 18, 2007 From: Adrian Paschke Subject: RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications Call for Papers The International RuleML Symposium on Rule Interchange and Applications (RuleML-2007) Orlando, Florida, USA, October 25-26, 2007 http://2007.ruleml.org Co-located with The 10th International Business Rules Forum http://www.businessrulesforum.com Abstract Submission Deadline: June 15, 2007 Paper Submissions Deadline: June 29, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 21, 2007 From: Emanuel Kitzelmann Subject: Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming Call for Papers 2nd Workshop on Approaches and Applications of Inductive Programming (AAIP) in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) Warsaw, Poland, September 17-21, 2007 ECML 2007 page: http://www.ecmlpkdd2007.org/ AAIP Workshop page: http://www.cogsys.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/aaip07/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: July 28, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 21, 2007 From: Prithviraj Dasgupta Subject: Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications Call for Papers Workshop on Optimization-based Data Mining Techniques with Applications at The 7th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Omaha, Nebraska, USA, October 28-31, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: August 26, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 22, 2007 From: Dan Bratton Subject: Particle Swarms: The Second Decade Call for Papers Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/ Special issue on Particle Swarms: The Second Decade http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/si/psosd.html http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jaea/si/psosd.pdf Paper Submission Deadline: July 20, 2007 Publication Date: February 1, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 23, 2007 From: Manfred Jaeger Subject: Probabilistic Relational Learning Call for papers Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Special Issue: Probabilistic Relational Learning http://www.cs.aau.dk/~jaeger/AMAI/ Paper Submission Deadline: September 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 27, 2007 From: Christophe Giraud-Carrier Subject: Workshop on Meta-Learning Call for Papers Meta-learning Workshop in Conjunction with the 20th International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Orlando, Florida, USA, August 17-18, 2007 http://dml.cs.byu.edu/~cgc/ijcnn07-ws/CFP.html Paper Submission Deadline: June 8, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 29, 2007 From: LPAR Subject: Conference on Logic for Programming, AI, and Reasoning Call for Papers 14th International Conference on Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR 2007) Yerevan, Armenia, October 15-19, 2007 http://www.lpar.net/2007/ Abstract Submission Deadline: June 4, 2007 Full-Paper Submission Deadline: June 11, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: August 6, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 30, 2007 From: rcamacho@fe.up.pt Subject: Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Call for Papers Workshop on Computational Methods in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the 13th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Guimaraes, Portugal, December 3-7, 2007 http://epia2007.appia.pt/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: September 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 4, 2007 From: ICLP07 publicity Subject: Workshop on Answer Set Programming Call for Papers 4th International Workshop on Answer Set Programming Co-located with the International Conference on Logic Programming ICLP 2007 Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007 http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/iclp07 Paper Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: August 10, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 6, 2007 From: Mehmed Kantardzic Subject: Conference on Machine Learning and Applications Call for Papers Call for Papers 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2007) Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, December 13-15, 2007 http://www.cs.csubak.edu/~icmla/icmla07/ http://www.icmla-conference.org/icmla07/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: October 1, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 6, 2007 From: Takashi Washio Subject: Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Call for Papers The 12th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Osaka, Japan, May 20-23, 2008 http://www.ar.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/pakdd2008/ Abstract Submission Deadline: September 23, 2007 Paper Submission Deadline: September 30, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: January 27, 2008 Workshop Proposal Deadline: October 21, 2007 Tutorial Proposal Deadline: November 27, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 8, 2007 From: Jochen Triesch Subject: Conference on Development and Learning Call for Participation IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2007) Imperial College London, 11-13 July 2007 http://www.icdl07.org/ Early Registration Deadline: June 12, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 11, 2007 From: Ronald Parr Subject: Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Call for Participation 23rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2007) Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 19-22, 2007 http://www.cs.duke.edu/uai07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 12, 2007 From: iclp07-publicity@di.uevora.pt Subject: International Conference on Logic Programming Call for Participation 23rd International Conference on Logic Programming Porto, Portugal, September 8-13, 2007 http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/iclp07/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 12, 2007 From: Hamid R. Arabnia Subject: WORLDCOMP'07 Call for Participation The 2007 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'07) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 25-28, 2007 http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp07/w ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 13, 2007 From: Menno van Zaanen Subject: Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction Call for participation International Conference on Machine Learning 2007 Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction Oregon State University, June 20-24, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 15, 2007 From: IDEAL07@cs.bham.ac.uk Subject: Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning Call for Papers 8TH International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning(IDEAL'07) Birmingham, United Kingdom, December 16-19, 2007 http://www.cercia.ac.uk/other/2007/ideal Paper Submission Deadline: July 6, 2007 Camera-ready Deadline: September 14, 2007 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 17, 2007 From: Professor Ron Sun Subject: Conference on Neural Networks Call for Participation 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks Orlando, Florida, USA, August 12-17, 2007 http://www.ijcnn2007.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 4, 2007 From: Roger Mailler Subject: CS Position at The AI Center at SRI International The Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International announces the availability of 2 computer scientist positions. We are seeking highly qualified and motivated computer scientists to participate in the development and application of machine learning techniques to the area of instructible computers. This job will involve a mixture of research-related activities, implementation, and testing in collaboration with world-leading researchers in machine learning. Position 1: The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of machine learning techniques along with their implementation. In particular we are looking for a candidate with experience in statistical relational learning and/or reinforcement learning techniques. In addition to having a strong background in machine learning, a demonstrated ability to work within a group on large projects is desired. Experience with Linux and Java are a plus. Position 2: The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of machine learning techniques along with their implementation. In particular we are looking for a candidate with experience in Markov Logic Networks, Inductive Logic Programming and/or other symbolic learning techniques. In addition to having a strong background in machine learning, a demonstrated ability to work within a group on large projects is desired. Experience with Linux, Java and Prolog are a plus. Both candidates should have a PhD or a MS with 1-3 years of research experience. Please send you CV and a research statement to mailler@ai.sri.com or apply on the SRI website https://sri.ats.hrsmart.com/index.html. Look for postings 3525 and 3526. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 16, 2007 From: Anja Dieckmann Subject: Research Assistant Position at University Dortmund, Germany The Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Dortmund, Germany, is looking for a Research Assistant (m/f) with a strong background in Machine Learning/Data Mining. The position is available from August 1, 2007. A two-year contract is offered that may be extended if the performance is excellent. It is a full-time position; part-time work may also be possible. The competitive salary is based on applicable University regulations. The Department of Artificial Intelligence at Dortmund is a small team that is involved in international research on Machine Learning and Data Mining, and develops application-oriented theories as well as theoretically well-founded applications. More information can be found at http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de. Tasks: * Teaching (2 x 90 minutes per week) * Research activities * Supervision of students * Working towards a Ph.D. is encouraged We expect: * Motivation to push research forward. * Interest in exchanging ideas within the team and with international researchers. * Excellent software development skills. * Ability to supervise and motivate students. * Outstanding performance resulting in publications. * The candidate must have a university degree in computer science and a background in Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD). * German language is required. We offer: * Participation in an inspiring, highly motivated team. * Support in developing the candidate's specific scientific strengths. * Opportunity to obtain a Ph.D. Applications from women are encouraged. Among equally suitable candidates, women will be preferred. Applications from disabled candidates are also desired. Applicants should send a CV and cover letter to: Universität Dortmund Lehrstuhl Informatik VIII Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik 44221 Dortmund Germany Tel.: +49 231 755 5101 Email: office@ls8.cs.uni-dortmund.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 20, 2007 From: goedel-fellowship@logic.at Subject: Kurt Goedel Centenary Research Prize Fellowships Call for Submissions KURT GÖDEL CENTENARY RESEARCH PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS The Kurt Gödel Society is proud to announce the commencement of the research fellowship prize program in honor of the celebration of Kurt Gödel’s 100th birthday. The research fellowship prize program is sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and will offer: • 2 Ph.D. (pre-doctoral) fellowships of $60,000* US per annum for 2 years • 2 post-doctoral fellowships of $ 80,000* US per annum for 2 years • 1 senior fellowship of $ 120,000* US per annum for 1 year based on an international open competition, resulting in the publication of research papers in a special issue of the Annals of Pure and Applied Logic.** The following International Board of Jurors will be in charge of evaluating the applications: Peter ACZEL, University of Manchester (GB) Lev BEKLEMISHEV, Russian Academy of Sciences (RUS) John BURGESS, Princeton University (USA) Harvey FRIEDMAN, Ohio State University (USA) CHAIR John HARRISON, Intel Corporation (USA) Wilfrid HODGES, Queen Mary University of London (GB) Simon KOCHEN, Princeton University (USA) Jan KRAJICEK, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic(CZ) Menachem MAGIDOR, Hebrew University (ISRAEL) David MARKER, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) Michel PARIGOT, Universite Paris 7 (FRANCE) Pavel PUDLAK, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic(CZ) Hilary PUTNAM, Harvard University (USA) Jeff REMMEL,University of California at San Diego (USA) John STEEL, University of California at Berkeley (USA) Frank STEPHAN, National University of Singapore (SINGAPORE) Albert VISSER, University of Utrecht (NL) Submission Software is online at:http://www.easychair.org/GoedelFellow2007/ Submission instructions can be found here: http://kgs.logic.at/goedel-fellowship/index.php?instructions Submission Deadline: June 30, 2007 Jury Decision on Papers for Publication (at most 20): October 2007 Final Versions Due: December 15, 2007 Jury Decision on Winners Due: January 2008 Award Ceremony: February 2008 Commencement of the Fellowships: Mar.-Sept, 2008 Web:http://kgs.logic.at/goedel-fellowship E-mail contact: goedel-fellowship@logic.at * The currency conversion rate used for the Fellowships is fixed at 0.81 EUR / 1USD! At current market rates, the Fellowship amounts to be awarded are about 10% higher in USD (April 20, 2007). ** For the purpose of the Fellowships' Program, the APAL will publish all articles chosen by the jury, which belong to any of the categories specified in the Scopes of the Fellowships. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Apr 30, 2007 From: Dan Roth Subject: NLP and ML Post-Docs at University of Illinois Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Post-Docs at UIUC The Cognitive Computation Group at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign has one or two post-doc positions for the next academic year (with possible extensions). One of the positions is in the area of Natural Language Understanding and Textual Entailment. We are looking for researchers with interests and experience in NLP as well as in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning systems. The second position is in the area of Machine Learning and, in particular, the use of background knowledge and inference techniques as part of the learning process. Prospective candidates should apply with a cover letter, CV, statement of research interests and accomplishments, and names and email addresses of three references. Please sent these, preferably by email with one of the following subject lines "Post-Doc NLP" or "Post-Doc ML" to: Robin King Email: rbking@uiuc.edu Phone: (217) 244-4789 The position starting day can be as early as July 1, 2007. For more information about our research please look at: http://L2R.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/ http://L2R.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr as well as information in: http://L2R.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/uiuc_ml/ http://L2R.cs.uiuc.edu/~cogcomp/uiuc_nlp/ Dan Roth, Professor Willett Faculty Scholar Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign 201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana IL 61801 Phone: (217) 244-7068 Fax: (217) 265-6591 e-mail: danr@cs.uiuc.edu http://L2R.cs.uiuc.edu/~danr ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: May 20, 2007 From: John-Dylan Haynes Subject: Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin Postdoc: FMRI DECODING OF CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSING 2 Postdoctoral positions available at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin Two full-time postdoctoral positions are available from now for a period of 3 years in the group of Prof. John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin. Research focuses on functional brain imaging of conscious and unconscious human cognitive processing in the domains of perception, attention and executive control. A variety of methods are used including behavioural and psychophysical measurements, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and EEG/MEG recordings in humans. Further information on our research can be found on our website (http://www.cbs.mpg.de/~haynes). The specific projects will build on previous work using multivariate pattern recognition applied to human brain responses to decode conscious and unconscious processing in various cognitive domains. Experience in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging and familiarity with neuroimaging analysis platforms (such as SPM or BrainVoyager) are desirable, as well as mathematical and scripting skills (especially MATLAB). The positions require a PhD in a relevant field, such as neuroscience, cognitive science, cognitive psychology or computer science/mathematics. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing, conducting and analysing experiments and will work as part of a multi-disciplinary research team. The position offers excellent training in advanced aspects of neuroimaging (such as cortical flattening, retinotopic mapping, connectivity analysis, multivariate decoding, information-based brain mapping). Please direct applications, per email, before 15th June to: Margret Franke (margret.franke@bccn-berlin.de) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Jun 4, 2007 From: Khalil Simaan Subject: European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information Call for Course Proposals 20th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2008) Hamburg, Germany, August 4-15, 2008 http://www.folli.org/submission.php Proposal Deadline: July 2, 2007 ------------------------ End of ML-LIST Digest Vol 19, No. 4