NIPS 2006

Indicates the beginning of a session

Time	Regency E	Regency F
Mon Dec 04, 2006
09:30 AM (Tutorials)	Advances in Gaussian Processes	Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing: New Developments and Challenges
01:00 PM (Tutorials)		The Role of Computational Methods in Creating a Systems Level View from Biological Data
01:02 PM (Tutorials)	Bayesian Models of Human Learning and Inference
03:30 PM (Tutorials)	Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Fiber Tracking of Human Brain Pathways	Energy-Based Models: Structured Learning Beyond Likelihoods

Time	Sutcliffe B	Alpine A-B	Callaghan	Nordic	Black Tusk	Mt. Currie North	Mt. Currier South	Cheakamus	Alpine C-E	Emerald A	Diamondhead	Sutcliffe A	Emerald Ballroom and Hallway	Aubergine Grille
Fri Dec 08, 2006
12:00 AM (Workshops)	Towards a New Reinforcement Learning?	Grounding Perception, Knowledge and Cognition in Sensori-Motor Experience	Continuous Attractor Neural Networks	User Adaptive Systems	Revealing Hidden Elements of Dynamical Systems	Learning to Compare Examples	Causality and feature selection	EHuM: Evaluation of Articulated Human Motion and Pose Estimation	New directions on decoding mental states from fMRI data	New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology	On-line Trading of Exploration and Exploitation	Testing of Deployable Learning & Decision Systems
06:30 AM (Breaks)														Breakfast
06:30 PM (Breaks)													Reception and Registration

Time	Sutcliffe B	Alpine A-B	Callaghan	Nordic	Black Tusk	Mt. Currie North	Cheakamus	Alpine C-E	Emerald A	Diamondhead	Sutcliffe A	Mt. Currie South	Emerald Ballroom	Aubergine Grille
Sat Dec 09, 2006
12:00 AM (Workshops)	Novel Applications of Dimensionality Reduction	Advances in Models for Acoustic Processing	Multi-level Inference Workshop and Model Selection Game	Learning when test and training inputs have different distributions	Echo State Networks and Liquid State Machines	The First Annual Reinforcement Learning Competition	Machine Learning for Multilingual Information Access	Current Trends in Brain-Computer Interfacing	Learning Applied to Ground Robots: Sensing and Locomotion	Decoding the neural code	Workshop On Machine Learning Open Source Software	Dynamical Systems, Stochastic Processes and Bayesian Inference
06:30 AM (Breaks)														Breakfast
07:30 PM (Breaks)													Closing Banquet