NEURAL NETWORK WORKSHOP
Richard Mammone, Chairman
Sponsored by
FAA Technical Center
Hosted by
the Center for
Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity (CAIP)
PROGRAM
TUESDAY - THURSDAY
27 - 29 OCTOBER, 1992
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THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY
RUTGERS
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Center for Computer Aids for Industrial
Productivity (CAIP)
Frelinghuysen Road - P.O. Box 1390 - Piscataway -New Jersey 08855-1390
Tel: 908/932-4208 - FAX: 908/932-4775
A New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Center
Tuesday, 27 October 1992
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8:30 a.m. _____________________Registration;Coffee____________________
8:45 a.m. Opening Remarks
Leo T. Powell, Jr., FAA Technical Center
Richard Mammone - Workshop Chairman,Rutgers University
8: 55 a.m. Neural Networks for Speech Processing and Language
Session Chairman, Allen Gorin, - AT&T Bell Laboratories
9:00 a.m. Neural Networks in the Acquisition of Speech by Machine
Frank Fallside, Cambridge University, U.K.
9:30 a.m. The Nervous System: Fantasy and Reality
Nelson Kiang - Massachusetts Eye and Ear
10:10 a.m. ________________________Coffee Break________________________
10:30 a.m. Processing of Speech Segments in the Auditory Periphery
Oded Ghitza - AT&T Bell Labs
10:50 a.m. Is There a Role for Neural Networks in Speech Recognition?
John Bridle - Dragon
11:10 a.m. Some Relationships Between Artificial Neural Nets and Hidden
Markov Models
Arthur Nadas - IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
11:30 p.m. _____________________________Lunch_______________________
1:30 p.m. The Neurophysiology of Word Reading: A Connectionist Approach
David Plaut - Carnegie Mellon University
1:50 p.m. States Versus Stacks: Representing Grammatical Structure in a
Recurrent Neural Network
Jeffrey Elman - UCSD
2:10 p.m. Connections and Associations in Language Acquisition
Naftali Tishby - Hebrew University, Israel
2:30 p.m. Recurrent Neural Networks and Sequential Machines
Lee Giles - NEC
2:50 p.m. _________________________Coffee Break_______________________
3:10 p.m. A Self-Learning Neural Tree Network for Phoneme Classification
Mazin Rahim - CAIP Center, Rutgers University
3:30 p.m. Decision Feedback Learning of Neural Networks
Fred Juang - AT&T Bell Laboratories
3:50 p.m. An Experiment in Spoken Language Acquisition
Allen Gorin, Session Chairman - AT&T Bell Laboratories
4:10 p.m. Visual Focus of Attention in Language Acquisition
Ananth Sankar - AT&T Bell Laboratories
4:30 p.m. Integrating Segmental Neural Nets with Hidden Markov Models
for Continuous Speech Recognition
John Makhoul, George Zaualiagkos, Richard Schwartz,
Steve Austin - BBN Systems and Technologies, Cambridge, MA
4:50 p.m. Panel Discussion - The Future of Neural Nets for Speech
Processing
Steve Levinson, Chairman; John Makhoul, Esther Levin,
Naftali Tishby, John Bridle
5:40 p.m. Decision Making Using Conventional Calculations Versus Neural
Nets for Advanced Explosive Detection Systems
Thomas Miller - Tensor Tech. Assoc.
6:10 p.m. _____________________________Dinner________________________
7:30 p.m. Break Out Groups
Room 1: What Are the Most Successful Applications of Neural Networks?
Chris Scofield (Moderator) - Nestor, Philip Gouin - Nestor,
Larry Jackel - AT&T Bell Labs, Eric Schwartz - NY Univ.
Medical School, Ed DeRouin - Thought Processes Inc.
Room 2: What Are Interesting Mathematical Results Specific to Neural
Networks?
Eduardo Sontag (Moderator) - Rutgers University, Georg
Schnitger - Penn State Univ., Federico Girosi - MIT AI Lab,
Santosh Venkatesh - Univ. of Penn., Stephen Judd - Siemens,
Jeff Vitter - Brown Univ., Wolfgang Maass - Graz Austria,
Charles Fefferman - Princeton Univ., Kurt Hornik - Wien Austria
George Cybenko - Dartmouth College
Room 3: What Is the Impact of Government Support on the Development of
Networks?
Wagih Makky (Moderator) - FAA Tech. Ctr., Shiu Cheung - FAA
Tech. Ctr., Richard Ricart - Booz Allen & Hamilton, John
Cozzens - NSF, Steve Suddarth - Air Force
Wednesday, 28 October 1992
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8:55 a.m. Neural Network Applications in Vision
Session Chairman, Chris Scofield, - Nestor
9:00 a.m. Integrated Segmentation and Recognition of Handprinted
Characters
James Keeler - MCC
9:20 a.m. Neural Net Image Analysis for Postal Applications: From
Locating Address Blocks to Determining Zip Codes
Larry Jackel - AT&T Bell Laboratories
9:40 a.m. Space Invariant Active Vision
Ben Bederson - Bellcore, Eric Schwartz - NY Univ. Medical
School, Brain Research
10:00 a.m. _________________________Coffee Break_______________________
10:30 a.m. Engineering Document Processing with Neural Networks
Philip Gouin - Nestor, Inc.
10:50 a.m. Goal - Oriented Training of Neural Networks
Ed DeRouin - Thought Processes, Inc.
11:10 a.m. Hybrid Neural Networks and Image Restoration
V. K. Prasad - CalTech
11:30 a.m. Neural Networks for Vision Session
V. K. Prasad, Session Chairman - CalTech
11:30 a.m. A Discrete Radon Transform Method for Invariant Image Analysis
Using Artificial Neural Networks
John Doherty - Iowa State University
11:50 a.m. Face Recognition Using an NTN
Joseph Wilder, CAIP Center
12:10 p.m. _____________________________Lunch________________________
1:30 p.m. Improving Network Performance:Using Averaging to Construct
Hybrid Networks.
Michael Perrone and Leon Cooper - Brown University
1:50 p.m. Dynamic Systems and Perception
Alexander Pentland - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:10 p.m. Deterministic Annealing for Optimization
Alan Yuille - Harvard University
2:30 p.m. Neural Networks in Vision
Yehoshua Zeevi - Technion Israel
2:50 p.m. A Neural Chip Set for Supervised Learning and CAM
Josh Alspector - Bellcore
3:10 p.m. Cortical Dynamics of Feature Binding & Reset: Control of
Visual Persistence
Ennio Mingolla, Gregory Francis, Stephen Grossberg
3:30 p.m. _________________________Coffee Break_______________________
3:50 p.m. Neural Networks for Identification and Control of Nonlinear
Systems
Session Chairman, Eduardo Sontag - Rutgers University
4:10 p.m. Bounds for the Computational Power and Learning Complexity of
Analog Neural Nets
Wolfgang Maass - Graz, Austria
4:30 p.m. Computational Issues in Neural Networks
George Cybenko - Dartmouth University
4:50 p.m. Noisy Linear Networks
Kurt Hornik - Wein University, Austria
5:10 p.m. Technical Discussions
6:00 p.m. Dinner and Celebration in Honor of Jim Flanagan for Receiving
The Marconi International Fellowship Award
7:30 p.m. The Future Role of Research
Arno Penzias - V.P. of Research, Bell Labs
Thursday, 29 October 1992
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8:45 a.m. Recurrent Network Sessions
Session Chairman, Richard Ricart-Booz Allen
8:50 a.m. Prediction-Based Networks with ECG Application
S. Y. Kung - Princeton
9:10 a.m. Comparison of Feedforward and Recurrent Sensitivity
Gary Kuhn - Siemens
9:30 a.m. Short Term Memory Mechanisms for Recurrent Neural Networks
Bert DeVries, John Pearson - David Sarnoff Research Center
9:50 a.m. Recurrent Neural Networks for Speaker Recognition
Richard Ricart-Booz Allen
10:10 a.m. Processing of Complex Stimuli in the Mammalian Cochlear Nucleus
Eric Young - Johns Hopkins
10:30 a.m. _________________________Coffee Break_______________________
10:50 a.m. Applications of Neural Networks
Session Chairman, Richard Mammone - Rutgers University
10:50 a.m. Neural Networks for the Detection of Plastic Explosives in
Airline Baggage
Richard Mammone
11:10 Rates of Convergence of Approximation
Federico Girosi - MIT AI Lab
11:30 a.m. Non-Literal Transfer of Information Among Inductive Learners
Lorien Pratt - Colorado School of Mines
11:50 p.m. _____________________________Lunch________________________
