| | Scott Kirkpatrick (IBM) |
| | Scott Kirkpatrick |
| | Yair Weiss (UC Berkeley) |
| | Yair Weiss: "On the fixed points of the max-product algorithm" |
| | Daniel D. Lee (Bell Labs): "Hidden nonnegative Variable Models for Dynamic Data" |
| | Leon Bottou (AT&T), Andrew McCallum (CMU) and Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) |
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Fernando Pereira (AT&T), with Uri Lerner, Nir Friedman, Hagai Attias, Yair Weiss and Vladimir Pavlovic listening |
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Rich Zemel (Toronto) and Peter Bartlett |
| | Dan Lee (Bell Labs) |
| | David Heckerman (Microsoft) |
| | Daphne Koller (Stanford) |
| | Daphne Koller |
| | Olivier Chapelle (AT&T/U. Paris) |
| | John Lafferty (CMU) |
| | John Lafferty: "Learning Language Models for Information Retrieval" |
| | Leon Bottou (AT&T) |
| | Geoffrey Hinton (Toronto): "Training Products of Experts by Maximizing Contrastive Likelihood" |
| | Sun-Ichi Amari (Riken and U. Tokyo) |
| | Sun-Ichi Amari: "Information Geometry of Multilayer Perceptrons". |
| | Lyle Ungar (U. Penn) |
| | Eric Baum (NEC) |
| | Satinder Singh (AT&T) |
| | Yoshua Bengio (Montreal) and John Platt (Microsoft) |
| | John Platt |
| | Trevor Hastie |
| | Trevor Hastie |
| | Trevor Hastie (Stanford): "Gene Shaving: a new class of clustering methods for expression arrays" |
| | Rich Caruana (CMU) |
| | Eric Brill (Microsoft) |
| | Ehud Kalai (Northwestern) |
| | Ehud Kalai: "Rational Interactive Learning" |
| | Vladimir Pavlovic (Compaq) |
| | Klaus Obermayer (TU Berlin) |
| | Leon and Bottou and Sun-Ichi Amari at the banquet |
| | Leon and Bottou and Sun-Ichi Amari at the banquet |
| | Tables at the banquet |
| | Athinodoros Georghiades (Yale) |
| | Eric Winfree (Caltech) |
| | Deborah Gordon (Stanford): "The Organization of Work in Ant Colonies " |
