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                         Spring 1995 Colloquium Series

                          CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS
                                    AND
                  DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
                              BOSTON UNIVERSITY

January 27
APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Dr. Joshua Alspector, Neural Network Research Group, Bellcore 

February 3 
NETWORKS THAT LEARN AND HOW THE BRAIN SHOULD WORK
Professor Tomaso Poggio, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 

February 10 
PLANNING AND LEARNING USING MARKOV DECISION MODELS
Professor Leslie Pack-Kaelbling, Department of Computer Science,
Brown University 

February 24 
A DYNAMIC MODEL OF DISCONTINUITIES IN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Professor Kurt Fischer, Human Development and Psychology, Harvard University 

March 3 
BAYESIAN LEARNING IN MODULAR AND HIERARCHICAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Professor Michael Jordan, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT 

March 17
VISION, BRAIN, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITION
Speakers: B. Julesz, K. Nakayama, S. Grossberg, P. Cavanagh, 
V.S. Ramachandran, E. Thompson, D. Dennett. Time: 8:30 A.M. - 6:00 P.M. 
Place: GSU Conference Auditorium, 2nd floor, 775 Commonwealth Avenue

March 24
ON THE GEOMETRY OF PERCEIVED SPACE 
Professor James Todd, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University

April 7
HOW DOES THE BRAIN GENERATE SENSORY-MOTOR BEHAVIOR?
A COMPUTATIONAL FIELD THEORY FOR CONTROLLING RAPID EYE MOVEMENTS 
Dr. Lance Optican, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, 
National Eye Institute, NIH

April 21
PARALLEL CEREBRAL MEMORY SYSTEMS
Dr. Mortimer Mishkin, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH

April 28
STATISTICAL METHODS IN LARGE VOCABULARY CONTINUOUS SPEECH RECOGNITION
Larry Gillick, Dragon Systems
  
             All Talks (except March 17) on Fridays at 2:30 PM 
                    Refreshments at 2:00 PM in Room 101
                        2 Cummington Street, Boston
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