[fod] _THE_ FoD event of the year!

[Marcus Gallagher <marcusg@itee.uq.edu.au>]

(First announcement and call for suggestions and expressions of
interest!)

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The 2002 CSSIP/FoD Workshop on Pattern Recognition, Classification and
Intelligent Systems.
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UQ Moreton Bay Marine Research Station
North Stradbroke Island, Queensland

4-6 October, 2002


The Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP),
together with the Festival of Doubt Interdisciplinary research group,
are organising a weekend workshop, to be held at the University of
Queensland's Moreton Bay Marine Research Station from the 4th - 6th
October 2002. 

The workshop will provide an opportunity for focussed presentations and
discussion of current research material, as well as promoting
interdisciplinary research directions in intelligent systems and pattern
recognition. While Pattern Recognition and Classification will be major
themes of the workshop, interested researchers involved in any aspect of
intelligent systems or related areas are warmly invited to attend and
contribute to the workshop program. 

Call for Expressions of Interest
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We are currently inviting members of the CSSIP/FoD communities to become
involved in the workshop. Most of the organizational details are still
to be sorted out, and we would welcome any offers to help or suggestions
for how to run things. Most importantly, we would like to see as many
people as possible come along, so if you think you might be able to
attend and/or present a talk, please send an email to either Marcus or
Dennis. 

Tentatively scheduled talks to date are as follows: 

Region Growing in Feature Space. Dennis Longstaff and Paul Jackway 
Gaussian Processes for Regression and Classification. Marcus Gallagher 
The Optimal Optimizer (aka The One True Way): Gaussian Processes for
Optimization. Marcus Frean 

Further details about the workshop will be posted on the web at
http://festivalofdoubt.uq.edu.au/wshop02.html 

Organizing Committee
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Prof Dennis Longstaff, CSSIP, UQ. 
Dr Marcus Gallagher, School of ITEE, UQ. 
A/Prof. Janet Wiles, School of ITEE, UQ. 
Prof. Tom Downs, School of ITEE, UQ. 

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