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From: Dianne Nguyen <dianne.nguyen@monash.edu>
Date: November 10, 2011 2:55:55 AM EST
To: FIT Solomonoff85thmemorial <solomonoff85thmemorial@monash.edu>
Subject: [Comp-neuro] Solomonoff Memorial Conf, Melbourne, Nov/Dec 2011, Call for Participation
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Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference
Dear Colleague
The Solomonoff Organising Committee cordially invites you to participate at the upcoming Solomonoff 85th Memorial Conference to be held at Monash University, Clayton Campus, between Wedn 30 November and Fri 2 December 2011.
To take advantage of the Early Bird Registration fee we encourage you to register as soon as possible.
The Conference is being held in honour and memory of Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009).
Solomonoff was the father of algorithmic information theory (before Kolmogorov and Chaitin), perhaps the first to advocate probabilistic artificial intelligence, and (in 1985) one of the first to write on the technological singularity.
Solomonoff is also mentioned in the recent "New Scientist" magazine article of Sat 10/Sept/2011 (pp42-45) for having the pioneering ideas in the 1960s of modern theories of intelligence. His January 2010 New York Times obituary is linked to from www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html#rjs.
Keynote Speakers
The Conference program includes three distinguished guest speakers:
Prof. Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA - famous for (e.g.) the Cook-Levin theorem of NP-Completeness, the computable Kt complexity approximation to (uncomputable) Kolmogorov complexity, the universal Levin search, etc.
Prof. Ming Li, University of Waterloo, Canada - widely known for the Li & Vitanyi "An introduction to Kolmogorov complexity and its Applications" book and for current research in bioinformatics.
Grace Solomonoff, USA
Program Committee (includes 2 Turing Award winners)
Andrew Barron, Statistics, Yale University, USA
Greg Chaitin, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
Fouad Chedid, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Bertrand Clarke, Medical Statistics, University of Miami, USA
A. Phil Dawid, Statistics, Cambridge University, UK
Peter Gacs, Boston University, USA
Alex Gammerman, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
John Goldsmith, Linguistics, University of Chicago, USA
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University, Australia
Leonid Levin, Boston University, USA
Ming Li, Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
John McCarthy, Stanford University, USA (Turing Award winner)
Marvin Minsky, MIT, USA (Turing Award winner)
Kee Siong Ng, ANU & EMC Corp, Australia
David Paganin, Physics, Monash University, Australia
Teemu Roos, University of Helsinki, Finland
Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA, Switzerland
William Uther, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia
Farshid Vahid, Econometrics, Monash University, Australia
Paul Vitanyi, CWI, The Netherlands
Vladimir Vovk, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Theme/Topics
This is a multi-disciplinary conference based on the wide range of applications of work related to or inspired by that of Ray Solomonoff. The contributions sought for this conference include, but are not restricted to, the following:-
Statistical inference and prediction, Econometrics (including time series and panel data), in Principle proofs of financial market inefficiency, Theories of (quantifying) intelligence and new forms of (universal) intelligence test (for robotic, terrestrial and extra-terrestrial life), the Singularity (or infinity point, when machine intelligence surpasses that of humans), the future of science, Philosophy of science, the Problem of induction, Evolutionary (tree) models in biology and linguistics, Geography, Climate modelling and bush-fire detection, Environmental science, Image processing, Spectral analysis, Engineering, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Statistics and Philosophy, Mathematics, Linguistics, Computer science, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Computational intelligence, Computational science, Life sciences, Physics, Knowledge discovery, Ethics, Computational biology, Computational linguistics, Collective intelligence, structure and computing connectivity of random nets, effect of Heisenberg's principle on channel capacity, Arguments that entropy is not the arrow of time, and etc.
Accepted Papers
A list of accepted papers is available at the following link:
http://www.solomonoff85thmemorial.infotech.monash.edu/accepted_papers.html
Registration
For information on registration and payment, please visit:
http://www.Solomonoff85thMemorial.monash.edu/registration.html
Please feel at liberty to forward announcement to interested staff and students.
I look forward to receiving your registration and participation at the Conference.
Kind regards
Dr Dianne Q. Nguyen (Co-ordinator) and (chairman) A/Prof. David L. Dowe.
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