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               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 669.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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                     Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu

   [1] From: Elli Mylonas <elli_mylonas_at_BROWN.EDU> (23)
         Subject: It's back! E-fest 2006-this week!

   [2] From: webir_at_yahoogroups.com (28)
         Subject: Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures

   [3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (73)
         Subject: Summer School: Neural Networks in Classification,
                 Regression and Data Mining

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         Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:16:47 +0000
         From: Elli Mylonas <elli_mylonas_at_BROWN.EDU>
         Subject: It's back! E-fest 2006-this week!

This is an annual event, and great fun to attend.

On March 22 and 23, the Brown University Literary Arts Program will
present E-Fest 2006, a celebration of new digital literary art. There
will be showbizz-style performances of new work each night, starting
promptly at 8 p.m., in the McCormack Family Theater at 70 Brown St.
(entrance off Fones Alley, across from the Literary Arts building),
and symposia all day Thursday in the McKinney Conference Room of the
Watson Institute for International Studies, 111 Thayer St. Among the
literary hypermedia artists performing are Stuart Moulthrop, Judd
Morrissey, Aya Karpinska, Rob Kendall, Scott Rettberg, Nick Montfort,
Jim Carpenter, Braxton Soderman, and others. Most of the performers
are also participating in the Thursday panels, along with Wendy Chun,
George Landow, Lutz Hamel, Gale Nelson, Edrex Fontanilla, and Mike
Magee. Symposia topics: 10 a.m. Memory and Real Time. 2 p.m. Noulipo:
Recombinant Poetics. 3:45 p.m.: The Game of Fiction. Visit the
website at http://www.arras.net/brown_efest_2006/. All events are
free and open to the public.

Robert Coover
Program in Literary Arts - Box 1923
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401.863.1152

For information about Brown's E-Fest 2006, 22-23 March, see:

http://www.arras.net/brown_efest_2006/

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         Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:19:06 +0000
         From: webir_at_yahoogroups.com
         Subject: Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures

[Forwarded from webir@yahoogroups.com, http://www.webir.org/]

Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:52:40 +0100
From: "Bernard Merialdo" <Bernard.Merialdo_at_eurecom.fr>
Paris, 4-5 May, 2006

                    Symposium on Digital Semantic Content across Cultures
                                  C2RMF, le Louvre, Paris, France
                                       4-5 May, 2006

Symposium Overview

The objective of the seminar is to discuss the digitalization, archiving,
and retrieval of our cultural heritage in all its forms, to deal with the
development of methods of compilation and indexation, and to present, in
the form of illustrative examples, cultural and recreational services
available to citizens (and consumers) including access to contents in
different languages from foreign cultures.

The symposium is intended for researchers, practioners, and students on
culture domains, museums, archives, libraries, and information and
communication technologies (ICT). In particular, research, applications,
and directions for future co-operation between French and Finnish cultural
organizations, research groups, and companies in the field of cultural
content and ICT will be discussed.

Programme

The symposium programme is available at the following address:

http://www.seco.tkk.fi/events/2006/2006-05-04-websemantique/ProgrammeWebSem2
006-03-13.pdf

Registration

The registration application is available at:
   https://www.seco.tkk.fi/events/2006/2006-05-04-websemantique/enrollment/

Registration is free, but seats are limited and will be allocated on a
first-come, first-serve basis.

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         Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:22:45 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Summer School: Neural Networks
in Classification, Regression and Data Mining

SUMMER SCHOOL NN2006
NEURAL NETWORKS in CLASSIFICATION, REGRESSION and DATA MINING
July 3-7, 2006, ISEP - Porto, Portugal

http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt email: nn-2006@isep.ipp.pt

GENERAL INFORMATION
The Summer School will be held at Porto, Portugal, jointly organized by
the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Porto (ISEP) and the Faculty of
Engineering, Porto University (FEUP).
Following last year experience, this year's edition also includes a
WORKSHOP SESSION providing a discussion forum where the participants can
obtain peer guidance for their projects.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (PROVISIONAL)
• Carlos Soares (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economy, University of
Porto, Portugal)
• Christopher Bishop (Professor, Assistant Director, Microsoft Research,
Cambridge, U.K.)
• Danilo Mandic (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, Imperial College, U.K.)
• Fernando Sereno (Adjunct Professor, School of Education, Porto
Polythecnic Institute, Portugal)
• Joaquim Marques de Sá (Associate Professor, Dept. Electr. and Comp.
Engineering, Fac. of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal)
• Luís Alexandre (Assistant Professor, Beira Interior University,
Portugal)
• Mark Embrecht (Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
RPI Troy, New York, U.S.A.)
• Noelia Sánchez Maroño (Assistant Professor, Coruna University, Spain)
• Paulo Cortez (Assistant Professor, University of Minho, Portugal)
• Robert Legenstein (Assistant Professor, Institute for Theoretical
Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Austria)
• Steve Gunn (Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, U.K.)

COURSE CONTENTS
Neural networks (NN) have become a very important tool in classification
and regression tasks. The applications are nowadays abundant, e.g. in the
engineering, economy and biology areas. The Summer School on NN is
dedicated to explain relevant NN paradigms, namely multilayer perceptrons
(MLP), radial basis function networks (RBF) and support vector machines
(SVM) used for classification and regression tasks, illustrated with
applications to real data. Specific topics are also presented, namely
Spiking Neural Networks, Recurrent Neural Networks, Modular Neural
Networks and Data Mining using NN.
Classes include practical sessions with appropriate software tools. The
trainee has, therefore, the opportunity to apply the taught concepts and
become conversant with a broad range of NN topics and applications. A
special workshop session will provide a discussion forum where the
participants can obtain peer guidance for their projects. Official
language is English.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
A preliminary programme and further information about the classes are
available at the school webpage (http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt)

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Early Registration: 15 May 2006
Hotel booking: 15 June 2006
Summer School: 3-7 July 2006
All participants are required to register prior to the start of the School
- until the June 15 - even if you choose to pay the late registration fee
at the registration desk.
Please note that only a LIMITED number of participants can be accepted.
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Received on Tue Mar 21 2006 - 02:49:08 EST