Celebrating 20 years of neural networks!

Announcements

• An updated IJCNN 2007 author index is available for download. This file contains page numbers for all the papers included in the conference proceedings.
• A slideshow of conference photos is available here.

Welcome Message

The 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) marks the 20 year anniversary of this event. To celebrate this important milestone in the neural networks field, the organizers of the conference would like to reflect on past progress and also to inject new energy into the field. The conference will provide an excellent venue to demonstrate the great promise and the real substance behind recent advances in brain inspired computation and the understanding of the brain.

The organizers of IJCNN 2007 are working diligently to implement several critical measures to make the conference a great success. As important components of the conference, we will try to institute more systematic procedures for student grants, the student paper competition, and poster paper presentation awards. There will also be a benchmark competition, panels, pre-conference tutorials, and post-conference workshops.

The conference will be held at the Renaissance Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida from August 12 through August 17. The hotel is currently undergoing renovation, and all the guestrooms and meeting areas will be in excellent shape for the conference in 2007. Right across the street from SeaWorld and Discovery Cove, the hotel is in an excellent location in downtown Orlando.

The IJCNN is the premier conference in the field of neural networks and Orlando features something for everyone. We would like to extend our warmest welcome to everyone to attend this exciting event: bring your colleagues, students, friends, and family.

If you think that you can help the conference in any way, do not hesitate to contact the General Chair, Dr. Jennie Si, or the Program Chair, Dr. Ron Sun.

See you in Orlando!

General Chair Jennie Si Arizona State University

Program Chair Ron Sun Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

Previous Announcements

• There will be a panel discussion dedicated to the "Celebration of 20 Years of Neural Networks". Panelists include neural networks pioneers, inaugural and sitting presidents of neural networks societies, and inaugural and sitting Editors-in-Chief of the key neural networks journals. This discussion is scheduled for Monday, August 13 at 10am.
• A special exhibit on the "20 Years or Neural Networks" will be on display at prominent locations at the conference. We will show you the history and our current strong standingas a community through pictures and posters.
• A post-conference workshop on "Neural Nets: The Next 20 Years -- Choices and Challenges" will be held on August 17 at 7pm.
• The NN3 competition on "Forecasting 11 or 111 Time Series with Neural Networks" at IJCNN 2007 attracted over 50 submissions from the computational intelligence and statistics communities. For more information on the workshop sessions, presentations, posters, and social activities, please see the workshop webpage.
• Talks and papers are now available at the Biologically-Inspired Computational Vision workshop webpage. Follow the link to "Electronic Proceedings."
• An abstract has been added for the panel discussion on Neural Networks for High-Level Intelligence and Cognition
• The program for the workshop on Meta-Learning is now available, featuring a keynote address by Don Oblinger (DARPA) and speakers from Europe, North America, and Australia.
• The final IJCNN 2007 technical program is now available.
• A special Women-in-Computational Intelligence luncheon/meeting will be held on August 17th.
• A workshop website is now available for the Innovation in Computational Approaches for Brain-Machine Interfaces workshop.
• A workshop website is now available for the Analysis of the Neurodynamic Substrate of the Action-Perception Cycle – Experiments and Modeling workshop.
• The submission deadline for the Agnostic Learning vs. Prior Knowledge Competition and Data Representation Discovery workshop has been extended to August 1st.