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Mathematics of Information Coding: Extraction and Distribution

Workshop Schedule

November 11-15, 1996

All Talks are held in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted. To view abstracts, click on the talk's title.




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		 	 Schedule for Monday, November 11
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8:45 am         Registration and Coffee
       Reception Room EE/CS 3-176


9:15 am         Welcome and Orientation
       A.Friedman, R. Gulliver, G. Cybenko
    

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         Univ. 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)

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                       Schedule for Tuesday, November 12
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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 Information Coding, Extraction \& Distribution


2:00 pm         Paul H. Siegel          Univ. of California, San Diego
      Mathematical Aspects of Trellis-Coded Modulation

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                       Schedule for Wednesday, November 13
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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 Almaden Research Center
      Plausible and Implausible Copyright Protection Techniques


2:00 pm         Charles Holland         Air Force Office of Scientific Research
      AFOSR Opportunities in Information Coding, Extraction & Distribution


2:30 pm         George Cybenko           Dartmouth College
      Transportable Information Agents:  Practice and Theory
      
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        	        Schedule for Thursday, November 14
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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 P. O'Leary       University of Maryland
      A Semi-Discrete Matrix Decompostion for Latent Semantic Indexing in Information Retrieval


2:00 pm         Se June Hong            IBM Watson Research Labs
      Attribute Selection for Modeling


6:00 pm         Workshop Dinner         Radisson Hotel
      Alumni Room, second floor

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             	     Schedule for Friday, November 15
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      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 Sciences
      To be announced


2:00 pm         Manfred Opper           Weizmann Institute of Science
      Worst-case redundancy and prediction over sequences



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