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              CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS
Neural Information Processing Systems, Natural and Synthetic
      Monday, December 8 - Saturday December 13, 2003
            Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
                    www.nips.cc
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Based on the success in 2002, the Neural Information
Processing Systems conference will once again include a
separate track for demonstrations.  The demonstrations will
take place in parallel with the poster sessions at the
NIPS*2003 conference.  Example areas of interest for the
demonstrations track include, but are by no means limited to
the following:

 o Analog and digital VLSI
 o Neuromorphic Engineering
 o Computational sensors and actuators
 o Robotics
 o bioMEMS (microelectromechanical systems)
 o Biomedical instrumentation
 o Neural prostheses
 o Photonics
 o Real-time multimedia systems
 o Large-scale neural emulators
 o Software demonstrations of novel algorithms

NIPS is an interdisciplinary conference, which attracts
cognitive scientists, computer scientists, engineers,
neuroscientists, physicists, statisticians, and
mathematicians interested in all aspects of neural and
statistical processing and computation.  The demonstration
track enables researchers to highlight scientific advances,
systems, and technologies in ways that go beyond conventional
poster presentations. It will provide a unique forum for
demonstrating advanced technologies (hardware and software),
and fostering the direct exchange of knowledge. We hope that
this track will stimulate interactions between researchers
from different fields (for example, roboticists and
neuromorphic engineers) and encourage new collaboration
between researchers in theoretical fields and those in more
applied fields.

Submissions accepted in the demonstrations track will be
published on the NIPS web site, but will not appear in
printed proceedings. However, submitting your work to the
demonstration track by no means precludes the submission of a
companion paper to the regular NIPS conference. In fact,
joint submissions are very much encouraged.  We also
encourage authors submitting demonstrations to consider
organizing a workshop at NIPS*2003. Note that the deadline
for paper submissions is June 6, 2003, and for demonstration
and workshop proposals the submission deadline is August 1,
2003. Please see http://nips.cc for further details.

There will be a separate room for these demonstrations and
participants will have access to power strips, tables and
poster boards.  VCRs and monitors will also be provided on
request. Participants are responsible for ensuring that their
demonstration is sufficiently portable; additional hardware
beyond that specified above will not be provided by NIPS but
might be provided at a cost if available.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: All proposals for demonstrations
will be reviewed by the Demonstrations Co-Chairs.  Interested
parties should submit a brief description of their proposed
demonstration via email by August 1, 2003.  Proposals should
include a title, description of the device or system to be
demonstrated, main results, novelty and significance of the
work, any related publications, and estimated space
requirements for the demonstration. Please include the name,
address, email address, phone and fax numbers for all
co-authors on the submitted work, and indicate whether a
related paper has also been submitted to NIPS*2003.

Proposals should be emailed to shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch, and
should be in plain ascii text, postscript or pdf.  Questions
may also be addressed to shih@ini.phys.ethz.ch.  Information
about the main conference and the workshop program can be
found at http://nips.cc.



Shih-Chii Liu and Tobi Delbrueck, Institute of
Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich, ETH Zurich
NIPS*2003 Demonstrations Co-Chairs

      PROPOSALS MUST BE RECEIVED BY AUGUST 1, 2003
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