ITSL'08: July 14, 2008 Schedule

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6:30am - 5:00pm:  Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)


08:30 - 08:45am:  WORLDCOMP'08 Opening Remarks
                  Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
                  University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:35am:  Keynote Lecture 1:
                  The Parallel Computing Landscape: A Berkeley View 2.0
                  Prof. David A. Patterson
                  Pardee Prof. of CS; Director, RAD Lab & Par Lab; Past
                  President, ACM; Member, National Academy of Engineering;
                  Member, National Academy of Sciences; Fellow of IEEE, ACM,
                  & AAAS; University of California at Berkeley.
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:40 - 10:25am:  Keynote Lecture 2:
                  Searching in the "Real World"
                  Prof. Ophir Frieder
                  The Royden B. Davis, SJ, Chair in Interdisciplinary
                  Studies at Georgetown University; IITRI Chair Professor
                  of CS at Illinois Institute of Technology; Director,
                  Information Retrieval lab; Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:30 - 11:15am:  Keynote Lecture 3:
                  Achieving your Dreams
                  Anousheh Ansari
                  CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Prodea Systems, Inc., USA;
                  Space Ambassador
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:15a - 12:00p:  Keynote Lecture 4:
                  Dimensions in Reconfigurable Computing: A New Wave in
                  Electronic System Designs
                  Chris Phillips
                  Vice President of Engineering at ElementCXI, USA
                  (LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:00 - 01:20pm:  LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 03:20pm:  During this period, ITSL'08 attendees are encouraged to participate
                  in sessions belonging to ICAI'08, MLMTA'08, IPCV'08, SWWS'08,
                  SAM'08, DMIN'08, IKE'08, FECS'08, or FCS'08.  These sessions
                  discuss topics that overlap the scope of ITSL'08.


SESSION 1-ITSL:   INFORMATION THEORETIC LEARNING + CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS (Chair: TBA)
                  July 14, 2008 (Monday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
                  (LOCATION: Titanium Room)

03:20 - 03:40pm:  A Model of the Distribution of the Distances of Alike
                  Elements in Dialogical Communication
                  Alexander Mehler
                  Bielefeld University, Germany

03:40 - 04:00pm:  Information Geometry of Contrastive Divergence
                  Shotaro Akaho
                  Neuroscience Research Institute, Japan

04:00 - 04:20pm:  Clustering on a Subspace of Exponential Family Using
                  Variational Bayes Method
                  Kazuho Watanabe
                  University of Tokyo, Japan

04:20 - 04:40pm:  On the Multinomial Stochastic Complexity and its
                  Connection to the Birthday Problem
                  Tommi Mononen
                  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland

04:40 - 05:00pm:  A Randomized Complexity-Theoretic Model of Bio-Inspired
                  Mobile Epidemics via Close Contact
                  Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong and Mario Gerla
                  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm:  The Advantage of Robust Measure for Mining Multivariate Outliers
                  Dyah Erny Herwindiati
                  Tarumanagara University, Jakarta, Indonesia

05:20 - 05:40pm:  A Diagnostic of Influential Cases Based on the Information
                  Complexity Criteria in Mixed Models
                  Junfeng Shang
                  Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm:  An Empirical Comparison of NML Clustering Algorithms
                  Petri Kontkanen, Petri Myllymaki
                  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland


06:00 - 09:00pm:  Tutorials (please see the list of tutorials)

09:10 - 11:30pm:  CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER & BANQUET KEYNOTE - July 14 (Monday)
                  High Performance Computing and Computational Intelligence: Link
                  to the Translational Medicine and Personalized Healthcare
                  Dr. Jack Y. Yang and Dr. Mary Qu Yang
                  Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA and
                  National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
                  (LOCATION: Ballrooms 1-5)

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