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CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS: Neural Information
Processing Systems - NIPS 2005
December 5-8 Vancouver, BC
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www.nips.cc
Deadline for Demonstration Proposals: * Sunday,
September 25, 2005 *
Application:
<http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/current/CFP/DemoForm.php>
Would you like to interactively demonstrate your novel
hardware,
software, or wetware technology, your robot, or your
chip to people
at the NIPS 2005 Conference?
The Neural Information Processing Systems Conference
has a
Demonstration track that will run in parallel with the
popular
evening Poster Sessions.
Demonstrators will have a chance to show their
interactive demos in
the areas of hardware technology, neuromorphic and
biologically-inspired systems, robotics, and software
systems. The
only hard rules are that the demo must show novel
technology and must
be LIVE and INTERACTIVE! (It is not a back-door
Poster Session.)
Submitting a Demonstration proposal is online and very
easy, see:
*Demonstration Application Form
<http://www.nips.cc/Conferences/current/CFP/DemoForm.php>*
Act quickly because our final deadline is Sunday
September 25, 2005.
Demonstrations proposers will be notified of
acceptance by the first
week of October.
*NIPS 2005 Demonstrations Co-Chairs: *Timmer Horiuchi,
Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Institute for
Systems Research
and the Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program,
University of
Maryland and Alan Stocker, Center for Neural Science,
New York
University. Questions should be directed to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
*Deadline for Demonstration Proposals: September 25,
2005*
NIPS is a continually-evolving interdisciplinary
Conference, which
attracts cognitive scientists, computer scientists,
engineers,
neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and
mathematicians
interested in all aspects of neural and statistical
processing and
computation. The Demonstration Track enables
researchers to highlight
scientific advances, systems, and technologies in ways
that go beyond
conventional poster presentations. It will provide a
unique forum for
demonstrating advanced technologies (hardware and
software), and
fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. We hope
that this track
will stimulate interactions between researchers from
different fields
or approaches.
*Key requirements for Demonstrations* is that they be
LIVE and
INTERACTIVE and that they present a compelling view of
an emerging
technology. Past Demonstrations have covered a very
wide range.
Areas of interest for the Demonstrations track have
previously
included the following: analog and digital VLSI,
neuromorphic
engineering, computational sensors and actuators,
robotics, bioMEMS
(microelectromechanical systems), biomedical
instrumentation, neural
prostheses, RNA-computation, photonics, real-time
multimedia systems,
large-scale neural emulators, online learning
algorithms, and
open-source software toolboxes.
*Submissions* accepted in the Demonstrations track
will be published
on the NIPS web site, but will not appear in printed
proceedings.
However, submitting your work to the Demonstration
track does not
preclude the submission of a companion paper to the
regular NIPS
Conference; joint submissions are very much
encouraged. We also
encourage authors submitting Demonstrations to
consider organizing a
Workshop at NIPS 2005.
*NIPS will provide: * There will be a separate room
for these
Demonstrations and participants will have access to
power strips,
tables and poster boards. Monitors will also be
provided on request
at their rental cost. Participants are responsible for
ensuring that
their Demonstration is sufficiently portable;
additional hardware
beyond that specified above might be provided at cost,
if readily
available.
Proposals for Demonstrations will be reviewed by the
Demonstrations
Co-Chairs. Demonstration proposals should be
submitted via the web
form:
Demonstrators will be asked to enter information about
the nature of
the Demonstration, in particular they will be asked to
describe first
the user experience and then the underlying
technology. Proposals
that are simply papers in disguise will be rejected,
this session is
for live, interactive experiences that compellingly
demonstrate new
technology. Proposers will also be asked about the
present state of
their Demonstration in order that the co-chairs may
judge whether the
Demonstration can actually be made functional. Past
experience has
shown that simpler Demonstrations that make one point
are usually
more interesting to attendees. Complex Demonstrations
involving
multiple technologies and partners have not been as effective.
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