| TUESDAY April 10th | |
| 4:00 | Registration - outside Ballroom 1 |
| 5:30 | Dinner - Golden Cliff |
| 7:00 | Oral Session 1 - Ballroom 1 |
| * 7:00 | M. Hasselmo (Boston University) Modeling the role of the hippocampus in goal-directed spatial navigation. |
| 0:40 | Michael Kearns Michael Littman Satinder Singh (AT&T Labs) Graphical Models for Game Theory |
| 8:00 | Break |
| 8:20 | John Lafferty, Andrew McCallum, Fernando Pereira (Whizbang! Labs, CMU, U. Penn.) Conditional Random Fields: Probabilistic Models for Segmenting and Labeling Sequence Data |
| 8:40 | Simon Tong, Daphne Koller (Stanford) Active Learning for Structure in Bayesian Networks |
| 9:00 | Leslie Pack Kaelbling (MIT AI Lab) The Role of Deictic Representation in Learning |
| WEDNESDAY April 11th | |
| 7:00 | Breakfast - Golden Cliff |
| 8:00 | Oral Session 1 - Ballroom 1 |
| * 8:00 | Martin A. Nowak (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Evolution of language |
| 8:40 | Yoshua Bengio, Pascal Vincent, Florence d'AlcheBuc (U. Montreal and U. P. and M. Curie, Paris) Learning a Distributed Representation for Statistical Language Modeling and Information Retrieval |
| 9:00 | Petros Faloutsos, Michiel van de Panne, and Demetri Terzopoulos (U. Toronto) Learning Controller Preconditions for Physics-Based Character Animation |
| 9:20 | Break |
| * 9:40 | Jon Kleinberg Decentralized Network Algorithms: SmallWorld Phenomena and the Dynamics of Information |
| 10:20 | Eugene Agichtein, Steve Lawrence (U. Columbia, NEC) Learning to Find Answers to Questions |
| 10:40 | Ben Taskar, Eran Segal, Daphne Koller (Stanford) Probabilistic Clustering and Transduction in Relational Data |
| 11:00 | Gary William Flake, Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis, Steve Lawrence (NEC and Princeton) Minimum Cut Clustering |
| 11:20 | Lunch - Golden Cliff |
| 5:30 | Dinner - Golden Cliff |
| 7:00 | Poster Session A |
| 8:00 | Poster Session B |
| THURSDAY April 12th | |
| 7:00 | Breakfast - Golden Cliff |
| 8:00 | Oral Session 1 - Ballroom 1 |
| * 8:00 | Daniel M. Wolpert (University College, London) Computational human sensorimotor control |
| 8:40 | Sebastian Thrun, Yufeng Liu, Rosemary Emery, and Deepayan Chakrabarti (CMU) Learning 3D Environment Models with Mobile Robots |
| 9:00 | Ronan Collobert, Samy Bengio, Yoshua Bengio (IDIAP, Universite de Montreal) A Parallel Mixture of SVMs for Very Large Scale Problems |
| 9:20 | Break |
| * 9:40 | Hugh Durrant-Whyte, Eduardo Nebot, Gamini Dissanayake (U. Sydney) Autonomous Localisation and Map building in Large-Scale Unstructured Environments |
| 10:20 | Mikio L. Braun, Joachim Buhmann (Institute for Computer Science, Bonn) On Approximate Optimization and Robustness |
| 10:40 | Wenxin Jiang (Northwestern University) Boosting for Regression and Classification: Some Views from Analogy |
| 11:00 | Lawrence K. Saul (AT&T Labs), and Sam T. Roweis (Gatsby Unit, UCL) Unsupervised learning of nonlinear manifolds |
| 11:20 | Lunch - Golden Cliff |
| 5:30 | Dinner - Golden Cliff |
| 7:00 | Poster Session C |
| 8:00 | Poster Session D |
| FRIDAY April 13th | |
| 7:00 | Breakfast - Golden Cliff |
| 8:00 | Oral Session 1 - Ballroom 1 |
| * 8:00 | Gary Blasdel, Niall P. McLaughlin (Harvard) Interactions Between Retinotopy, Ocular Dominance, and Orientation in Monkey V1 |
| 8:40 | A. Angelucci, J.B. Levitt, J.M. Hupe, E.J.S Walton, J. Bullier, J.S. Lund (University of Utah) Anatomical Circuits for Local and Global Integration of Visual Information: Intrinsic and Feedback Connections in Macaque Visual Cortical Area V1 |
| 9:00 | Peter Stone and Richard Sutton (AT&T Labs) Scaling Reinforcement Learning toward RoboCup Soccer |
| 9:20 | Break |
| * 9:40 | Jean Ponce (U. Illinois) Issues in 3D object recognition |
| 10:20 | Cordelia Schmid (INRIA/GRAVIR-CNRS Montbonnot) Automatic construction of visual models |
| 10:40 | Paul Viola and Michael Jones (Compaq) Realtime Face Detection using AdaBoost, Feature Selection and the Integral Image |
| 11:00 | Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland (MIT Media Lab) Latent Discriminative Learning |
| 11:20 | Lunch - Golden Cliff |
| 5:30 | Banquet - Golden Cliff |
| 7:30 | Oral Session 1 - Ballroom 1 |
| 7:30 | Stefanos Damianakis, Dan Gindikin, Kirk Kanzelberger, and Peter N. Yianilos (LikeIt) The LikeIt Inexact String Retrieval System |
| 7:50 | Eric Cosatto and Hans-Peter Graf (AT&T Labs) Synthetic Talking Heads with Sample-Based Graphics |
| 8:10 | Break |
| 8:30 | Michael Kearns, Charles Isbell, Satinder Singh, Diane Litman, Jessica Howe (AT&T Labs) CobotDS: A Spoken Dialogue System for Chat |
| 8:50 | Deb Roy (MIT Media Laboratory) Language Learning from Sensory-Motor Experience |
| 9:10 | Yann LeCun and Jeffery Triggs (AT&T Labs Research) The NIPS Online Project Closing Remarks |
| 9:20 | Adjourn |