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- Neuron Digest Saturday, 7 Nov 1992
- Volume 10 : Issue 16
-
- Today's Topics:
- educational stock market game
- Clinical and Research Positions at the VA GRECC(Salt Lake City)
- position offer from RIKEN
- "Help!!" - protein structures and fault diagnosis
- Neural Nets and Visual tracking?
- faculty positions (U Mass)
- faculty position (Bristol, UK)
- Connectionist Models Summer School 1993
- New version of Self-Organizing Maps PD program package
-
-
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- issues to "neuron-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu". The ftp archives are
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- requested by mail will eventually be sent, but may take a while.
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-
- Subject: educational stock market game
- From: Lawrence Davenport III <ld37@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 92 01:40:27 -0500
-
- Dear "Neuron-Digest:
-
- If you have an interest in the stock market, want to learn about
- investment, want to receive some investment newsletters or
- want to try out your investment skills, then please read on.
- Otherwise, please hit the delete key now.
-
- 1. THE EVENT - WALL STREET INVESTMENT CHALLENGE:
-
- The Wall Street Investment Challenge is a contest in which each
- participant manages a fictional account of $1,000,000 in the stock
- market. During the 3 months contest, each participants will
- receive various top-rated investment newsletters. The winners of
- the contest will receive a set of prizes ranging from $25,000 to $100.
-
- 2. THE EDUCATIONAL ASPECT
-
- In addition to the fun and excitement that are associated with an investment
- challenge, the Wall Street Investment Challenge has created a three facet
- approach to help the participants to improve their investment skills.
-
- A). Learning Of The Investment Principles
-
- As a participant, you will receive 3 monthly issues of the Wall Street
- Investment Review which reports the latest research findings in the
- nation's best business schools on the subject of investment approaches
- that have yielded high profit or low risk. All investment concepts are
- explained in simple to understand language so that the readers can gain
- immediate understanding and benefits.
-
- B). Transforming The Investment Principles To Practical Stock Selection
-
- You will also receive highly regarded investment newsletters, including
- 6 issues of Dow Theory Forecasts and 6 issues of The Cabot Market Letter.
- Both of these two investment newsletters have been rated in the top 10,
- out of hundreds of newsletters, in Hubert's Guide To The Investment
- Newsletters. You can improve your ability to apply your investment
- knowledge to actual stock selection by observing the practices of these
- highly successful investment advisors.
-
- C). Sharpen The Investment Instincts In The Real-Time Financial World
-
- Many day to day financial and political developments have real impacts
- on short term and long term stock investment. Hence, you can sharpen
- your investment instincts by actively managing one or more portfolios
- in the Wall Street Investment Challenge.
-
- 3. THE PRIZES
-
- National Prizes:
-
- The 20 portfolios with the highest balance at the end of the competition
- will win the following cash prizes:
- 1st - 25,000 2nd - 4,000
- 3rd - 2,500 4th - 2,000
- 5th - 1,500 6th thru 20th - 1,000 each
-
- Division Champion
-
- Each participant is assigned to a division. Each division has 100
- participants. At the end of the competition, the participant with the
- highest portfolio value in the division will win the title of Division
- Champion and will receive a $500 prize.
-
- League Champion
-
- If you and your friends register together with at least 10 portfolios,
- you can form a league with a name of your choice. The best trader in
- your league will win the title of the League Champion and will receive a
- cash prize of $100.
-
- 4. OTHER INFO
-
- Cost - $49.95 entry fee
- Duration of the contest - from 11/1/92 to 1/31/93
- Allowable trades - buy, sell and short all NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ (OTC) stocks
-
- To register or for more info, please call 1 (800) 964-6463, 24 hours a day,
- 7 days a week.
-
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Clinical and Research Positions at the VA GRECC(Salt Lake City)
- From: soller%asylum.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Jerome Soller)
- Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
- Date: 25 Oct 92 00:55:44 +0000
-
-
- I thought the following job posting would be of interest to researchers
- in the neural network, biological models of aging, and intelligent
- medical computing systems area. Some examples of research projects
- at the VA GRECC in these areas include: applications of neural networks
- to large database systems, application of neural networks to prediction
- of heart disease(Charles Rosenberg), integrated data collection environments
- using pen based computers(Steven Fehlauer), Semantic Networks(Judith
- Graves), expert systems, etc.., to real problems in medicine and
- nursing. Close ties exist between the GRECC and U. of Utah
- Departments of Internal Medicine, Bioengineering, Computer Science,
- Psychology, Medical Informatics, and Nursing Informatics. Another
- separate VA center in Utah(VA Regional Information Systems Center,
- one of 7 in the U.S.) provides access to the VA's DHCP database,
- which is a standard database for 172 VA hospitals.
-
- Sincerely,
-
-
- Jerome Soller
- VA GRECC
- Ph.D. Candidate, U. of Utah
- Department of Computer Science
- soller@cs.utah.edu
- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Salt Lake City Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center
- (GRECC) and the University of Utah School of Medicine are recruiting
- individuals to join the VA/University program in Geriatric Internal
- Medicine. University faculty rank is dependent on qualifications.
- Candidates must hold an M.D. and/or Ph.D. and have interest in one or
- more of the following:
-
- Clinical Geriatric Internal Medicine
- Basic Biological Mechanisms of Aging
- Computer-based Strategies for "Real-Time" Assistance in
- the Delivery of Health Care
-
- Appointments will be in the SLC VAMC GRECC and in the appropriate
- University of Utah academic department.
-
- Send curriculum vitae and bibliography to:
-
- Gerald Rothstein, M.D.
- SLC GRECC (182)
- 500 Foothill Blvd.
- SLC, UT 84148
-
- Closing date March 31, 1993 or until suitable candidates are identifie
- d.
- Please call 801-582-1565 ext 4161 for further information.
-
- The Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of Utah are
- AA/EEO Employers.
-
-
- C. Steven Fehlauer, M.D.
- GRECC Research Investigator
- Assistant Professor of Medicine
- University of Utah
-
- Charles Rosenberg, Ph.D.
- GRECC Research Investigator
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: position offer from RIKEN
- From: Takayuki Ito <itot@strl.nhk.or.jp>
- Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 10:38:11 +0200
-
- I am Ito in NHK(Japan Broadcasting Corporation). Dr. Tanaka
- in RIKEN Institute asked me to post this letter.
-
- For more details, please contact with him by telephone or fax.
-
- - ------------------------------------
- Offer of a position for public subscription
-
- RIKEN Institute, Information Science Laboratory
- Researcher
- Field: Physiological, anatomical, and psychological studies
- of higher brain functions, and development of related
- methodology.
- Available from April 1, 1993
- Condition: Ph.D or scheduled by April 1, 1993. No elder
- than 34 on February 1, 1993. Any nationality.
- Inquires to Dr. Keiji Tanaka, Chief of Information Science
- Laboratory,
- fax: +81-48-462-4696, tel: +81-48-462-1111 ext.6411
- - ------------------------------------
-
- ----------------------------------------------
- Takayuki Ito (itot@strl.nhk.or.jp)
- NHK Science and Technical Research Labs.
- 1-10-11, Kinuta, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157 Japan
- Tel.+81-3-5494-2369, Fax.+81-3-5494-2371
- ----------------------------------------------
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: "Help!!" - protein structures and fault diagnosis
- From: VEMURI@icdc.llnl.gov
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 14:35:00 -0800
-
-
- Help!!
-
- I am getting interested in looking into the applications of neural nets
-
- 1. to protein structure problems.
-
- 2. to fault diagnosis (in electromechanical systems)
-
- I have seen several times discussion about these two topics in these columns.
- At that time I wasn't interested. NOW I AM!!
-
- Can any one help with some bibliography material on these two topics.
-
- Thanks you
-
- V. Vemuri
- Dept. of Applied Science
- University of California
- Livermore, CA 94550
- "Vemuri@icdc.llnl.gov"
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Neural Nets and Visual tracking?
- From: Denis Mareschal <maresch@ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 15:20:47 +0000
-
- Hi,
- I'm looking for references on the application of Neural-networks
- to visual-tracking. In particular, the ability to predict or anticipate
- futur positions based on information about the current history of the
- trajectory as well as THE DEVELOPMENT of this ability.
- I'm not very familiar with the vision literature but a preliminary
- search hasn't turned anything up. I am aware of NN applications to
- time-series analysis but I would prefer to find work dealing more
- explicitly with vision.
- Any help would be greatly appreciated and of course a list of
- references will be compiled and posted if sufficient requests are made.
- Thanks a lot
-
- Cheers,
- Denis Mareschal
- Department of Psychology
- Oxford
- maresch@ox.ac.uk
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: faculty positions (U Mass)
- From: Andy Barto <barto@cs.umass.edu>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 18:53:42 -0500
-
-
- UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
- AMHERST
-
- Faculty and Research Scientist Positions
-
- The Department of Computer Science invites applications for one-three
- tenure-track faculty positions at the assistant and associate levels and several
- research-track faculty and postdoctoral positions at all levels, in all areas of
- computer science. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in computer science or related
- area and should show evidence of exceptional research promise. Senior level
- candidates should have a record of distinguished research. Salary is
- commensurate with education and experience. Our Department has grown
- substantially over the past five years and currently has 30 tenure-track faculty
- and 8 research faculty, approximately 10 postdoctoral research scientists, and
- 160 graduate students. Continued growth is expected over the next five years.
- We have ongoing research projects in robotics, vision, natural language
- processing, expert systems, distributed problem solving, machine learning,
- artificial neural networks, person-machine interfaces,
- distributed processing, database systems, information retrieval, operating
- systems, object-oriented systems, persistent object management, real-time
- systems, real-time software development and analysis, programming languages,
- computer networks, theory of computation, office automation, parallel
- computation, computer architecture, and medical informatics (with the UMass
- Medical School). Send vita, along with the names of four references to Chair of
- Faculty Recruiting, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts,
- Lederle Graduate Research Center, Amherst, MA 01003 by February 1, 1993 (or
- Email inquiries can be sent to facrec@cs.umass.edu).
-
-
- An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: faculty position (Bristol, UK)
- From: I C G Campbell <C.Campbell@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: 02 Nov 92 15:04:01 +0000
-
- FACULTY POSITION
- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, UNITED KINGDOM
- Department of Computer Science
-
- Applications are invited for a Lectureship in Computer Science now
- tenable.
-
- FURTHER PARTICULARS
-
- The Department is part of the Faculty of Engineering. It has a
- complement of eighteen full-time UFC-funded staff members,
- together with a further twelve full-time outside-funded staff, and
- two Visiting Industrial Professors: Professor J. M. Taylor
- (Director, Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol) and
- Professor I. M. Barron. There are three Professors in the
- Department: Professor M. H. Rogers, who is Head of Department, and
- Professors J. W. Lloyd and D. H. D. Warren.
-
- The Department has substantial research funding from ESPRIT, SERC,
- industry and government.
-
- The Department concentrates its research in three main areas:
-
- Logic Programming
- Parallel Computing
- Machine Intelligence
-
- although a number of other topics are also being pursued.
-
- For this appointment, we are looking for a strong candidate in any
- area of Computer Science, although preference will be given to
- candidates with research interests in Parallel Computing or
- Machine Intelligence. We are particularly looking for candidates
- whose interests will broaden and complement our current work in
- these areas.
-
- Current work in Parallel Computing covers a range of areas,
- including parallel logic programming systems and languages, memory
- organisation for multiprocessor architectures, shared data models
- for transputer-based systems, and parallel applications especially
- for engineering problems and computer graphics. We are seeking to
- broaden and strengthen this research. Candidates with a strong
- background in computer architecture would be particularly welcome.
-
- Current work in Machine Intelligence centres mainly on Computer
- Vision and Speech Processing. One major project in Computer
- Vision is the development of an autonomous road vehicle, based on
- real-time image analysis. Other research projects in Computer
- Vision include vehicle number plate decoding, aircraft engine
- inspection, and visual flow monitoring. Current work on Speech
- Processing within the Department concentrates on speech synthesis,
- but the Faculty supports a Centre for Communications Research
- within which there is a Speech Research Group incorporating
- researchers in most aspects of speech technology, including speech
- recognition, speech coding, speech perception, and the design of
- speech interfaces. There is an interest in neural network theory
- and neural computing elsewhere in the Faculty and we would welcome
- applications from candidates in this area.
-
-
- The Department has a flourishing undergraduate and post-graduate
- teaching programme and participates in degree programmes in the
- Engineering, Science and Arts Faculties. These programmes lead
- to B.Sc. degrees in Computer Science, and Computer Science with
- Mathematics, a B.Eng. in Computer Systems Engineering, a B.A. in
- Computer Science and a Modern Language, and M.Sc. degrees in
- Computer Science, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, and
- Information Engineering.
-
- The salary will be within the Lecturer Scale and the initial
- placement will depend on age, qualifications and experience.
-
- The closing date for applications is 27th November 1992.
-
- Further particulars may be obtained from the Head of the Computer
- Science Department (tel: 0272-303584; or e-mail:
- barbara@bristol.uk.ac.compsci).
-
-
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: Connectionist Models Summer School 1993
- From: "Michael C. Mozer" <mozer@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu>
- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 92 14:35:14 -0700
-
- CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
-
- CONNECTIONIST MODELS SUMMER SCHOOL
-
- University of Colorado
- Boulder, Colorado
-
- June 21 - July 3, 1993
-
- The University of Colorado will host the 1993 Connectionist
- Models Summer School from June 21 to July 3, 1993. The purpose
- of the summer school is to provide training to promising young
- researchers in connectionism (neural networks) by leaders of the
- field and to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. This will
- be the fourth such program in a series that was held at
- Carnegie-Mellon in 1986 and 1988 and at UC San Diego in 1990.
- Previous summer schools have been extremely successful and we
- look forward to the 1993 session with anticipation of another
- exciting event.
-
- The summer school will offer courses in many areas of
- connectionist modeling, with emphasis on artificial intelligence,
- cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, theoretical
- foundations, and computational methods. Visiting faculty (see
- list of invited faculty below) will present daily lectures and
- tutorials, coordinate informal workshops, and lead small
- discussion groups. The summer school schedule is designed to
- allow for significant interaction among students and faculty. As
- in previous years, a proceedings of the summer school will be
- published.
-
- Applications will be considered only from graduate students
- currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs. About 50 students will be
- accepted. Admission is on a competitive basis. Tuition will be
- covered for all students, and we expect to have scholarships
- available to subsidize housing and meal costs, which will run
- approximately $300.
-
- Applications should include the following materials:
-
- * a one-page statement of purpose, explaining major areas of
- interest and prior background in connectionist modeling and
- neural networks;
-
- * a vita, including academic history, publications (if any), and
- a list of relevant courses taken with instructors' names and
- grades received;
-
- * two letters of recommendation from individuals familiar with
- the applicants' work; and
-
- * if room and board support is requested, a statement from the
- applicant describing potential sources of financial support
- available (department, advisor, etc.) and the estimated extent of
- need. We hope to have sufficient scholarship funds available to
- provide room and board to all accepted students regardless of
- financial need.
-
- Applications should be sent to:
-
- Connectionist Models Summer School
- c/o Institute of Cognitive Science
- Campus Box 344
- University of Colorado
- Boulder, CO 80309
-
- All application materials must be received by March 1, 1993.
- Decisions about acceptance and scholarship awards will be
- announced April 15. If you have additional questions, please
- write to the address above or send e-mail to
- "cmss@cs.colorado.edu".
-
-
- Organizing Committee
-
- Jeff Elman (UC San Diego)
- Mike Mozer (University of Colorado)
- Paul Smolensky (University of Colorado)
- Dave Touretzky (Carnegie-Mellon)
- Andreas Weigend (Xerox PARC and University of Colorado)
-
- Additional faculty will include:
-
- Andy Barto (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Gail Carpenter (Boston University)
- Jack Cowan (University of Chicago)
- David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz)
- Geoff Hinton (University of Toronto)
- Mike Jordan (MIT)
- John Kruschke (Indiana University)
- Jay McClelland (Carnegie-Mellon)
- Steve Nowlan (Salk Institute)
- Dave Plaut (Carnegie-Mellon)
- Jordan Pollack (Ohio State)
- Dave Rumelhart (Stanford)
- Terry Sejnowski (UC San Diego and Salk Institute)
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
- Subject: New version of Self-Organizing Maps PD program package
- From: lvq@cochlea.hut.fi (LVQ_PAK)
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 92 12:30:27 +0700
-
- ************************************************************************
- * *
- * SOM_PAK *
- * *
- * The *
- * *
- * Self-Organizing Map *
- * *
- * Program Package *
- * *
- * Version 1.2 (November 2, 1992) *
- * *
- * Prepared by the *
- * SOM Programming Team of the *
- * Helsinki University of Technology *
- * Laboratory of Computer and Information Science *
- * Rakentajanaukio 2 C, SF-02150 Espoo *
- * FINLAND *
- * *
- * Copyright (c) 1992 *
- * *
- ************************************************************************
-
- Some time ago we released the software package "LVQ_PAK" for
- the easy application of Learning Vector Quantization algorithms.
- Corresponding public-domain programs for the Self-Organizing Map (SOM)
- algorithms are now available via anonymous FTP on the Internet.
-
- "What does the Self-Organizing Map mean?", you may ask --- See the
- following reference, then: Teuvo Kohonen. The self-organizing map.
- Proceedings of the IEEE, 78(9):1464-1480, 1990.
-
- In short, Self-Organizing Map (SOM) defines a 'non-linear projection'
- of the probability density function of the high-dimensional input data
- onto the two-dimensional display. SOM places a number of reference
- vectors into an input data space to approximate to its data set in an
- ordered fashion.
-
- This package contains all the programs necessary for the application
- of Self-Organizing Map algorithms in an arbitrary complex data
- visualization task.
-
- This code is distributed without charge on an "as is" basis.
- There is no warranty of any kind by the authors or by Helsinki
- University of Technology.
-
- In the implementation of the SOM programs we have tried to use as
- simple code as possible. Therefore the programs are supposed to
- compile in various machines without any specific modifications made on
- the code. All programs have been written in ANSI C. The programs are
- available in two archive formats, one for the UNIX-environment, the
- other for MS-DOS. Both archives contain exactly the same files.
-
- These files can be accessed via FTP as follows:
-
- 1. Create an FTP connection from wherever you are to machine
- "cochlea.hut.fi". The internet address of this machine is
- 130.233.168.48, for those who need it.
-
- 2. Log in as user "anonymous" with your own e-mail address as password.
-
- 3. Change remote directory to "/pub/som_pak".
-
- 4. At this point FTP should be able to get a listing of files in this
- directory with DIR and fetch the ones you want with GET. (The exact
- FTP commands you use depend on your local FTP program.) Remember
- to use the binary transfer mode for compressed files.
-
- The som_pak program package includes the following files:
-
- - Documentation:
- README short description of the package
- and installation instructions
- som_doc.ps documentation in (c) PostScript format
- som_doc.ps.Z same as above but compressed
- som_doc.txt documentation in ASCII format
-
- - Source file archives (which contain the documentation, too):
- som_p1r2.exe Self-extracting MS-DOS archive file
- som_pak-1.2.tar UNIX tape archive file
- som_pak-1.2.tar.Z same as above but compressed
-
-
- An example of FTP access is given below
-
- unix> ftp cochlea.hut.fi (or 130.233.168.48)
- Name: anonymous
- Password: <your email address>
- ftp> cd /pub/som_pak
- ftp> binary
- ftp> get som_pak-1.2.tar.Z
- ftp> quit
- unix> uncompress som_pak-1.2.tar.Z
- unix> tar xvfo som_pak-1.2.tar
-
- See file README for further installation instructions.
-
- All comments concerning this package should be
- addressed to som@cochlea.hut.fi.
-
- ************************************************************************
-
-
-
-
- ------------------------------
-
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