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George
Cybenko (Dartmouth College)
Dianne O'Leary
(Univ. of Maryland)
Jorma Rissansen (IBM Almaden)
Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Energy
In the last decade, considerable engineering progress has been made in the technology of large-scale information systems. We are now at the point where ambitious deployments of global information networks are soon to be realized but serious problems remain in the areas of scalability, modeling and applications. the goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in various areas of mathematical and practical information theory and modeling to formulate the problems, explore new analytic methods and exchange ideas. We plan to address applications areas such as ``data mining", compression, database theory and machine learning, with special attention to the interactions between these areas from the analytical and mathematical points of view. Ideally, the workshop will devote half time to dissemination of new technical results and half time to the formulation of new paradigms and problems for future research.
| SCHEDULE for MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 | ||
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| 8:45 am | Registration and Coffee | Reception Room, EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:15 am | A.Friedman, R.Gulliver, D. Cybenko | Welcome and Orientation |
| 9:30 am | Michael T. Orchard, Princeton University |
Space-frequency methods in image coding |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Robert M. Gray, Stanford University |
Lossy Compression, Classification, and Regression |
| 2:00 pm | Ahmed H. Tewfik, University of Minnesota |
Protection, manipulation and storage of digital audio, image and video |
| 2:30 pm | Mary Vernon, University of Wisconsin |
Group-Guaranteed Channel Capacity in Multimedia Storage Servers |
| 4:00 pm | IMA Tea (and more!) | Vincent Hall 502 (The IMA Lounge) |
| SCHEDULE for TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Jorma Rissanen, IBM Almaden Research Center |
Universal Modeling and Coding |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Julia Abrahams, Office of Naval Research |
Minimum Discrimination Variable Length Parsing and Coding Problems |
| 1:30 pm | Jagdish Chandra, Army Research Office |
ARO Opportunities in Inforamtion Coding, Extraction & Distribution |
| 2:00 pm | Paul H. Siegel, Univ. of California, San Diego |
Mathematical Aspects of Trellis-Coded Modulation |
| SCHEDULE for WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Gil Strang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
The Search for a Good Basis |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00 am | Cynthia Dwork, IBM Aladen Research Center |
Plausible and Implausible Copyright Protection Techniques |
| 2:00 pm | Charles Holland, Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
AFOSR Opportunites in Information Coding, Extraction & Distribution |
| 2:30 pm | George Cybenko, Dartmouth College |
Transportable Information Agents: Practice and Theory |
| SCHEDULE for THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Chris Atkeson, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Scaling Up Numerical Machine Learning |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00-11:30 | Dianne O'Leary, University of Maryland |
A Semi-Discrete Matrix Decompostion for Latent Semantic Indexing in Information Retrieval |
| 2:00 pm | Se Jung Hong, IBM Watson Research Labs |
Attribute Selection for Modeling |
| 6:00 pm | Workshop Dinner | Alumni Room, 2nd Floor Radisson Hotel |
| SCHEDULE for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 | ||
| 9:15 am | Coffee | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 9:30 am | Eric Metois, MIT Media Lab |
The State of the State |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break | Reception Room EE/CS 3-176 |
| 11:00-11:30 | Duncan Buell, IDA/Center for Computing Services |
To be announced |
| 2:00 pm | Manfred Opper, Weizmann Institute of Science |
Worst-case redundancy and prediction over sequences |
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