LEARNING 2008 Hilton Clearwater Beach Resort, Clearwater, Florida, April 13-16, 2009 http://snowbird.djvuzone.org Dear Colleague: The Computational and Biological Learning Society and the NIPS foundation invite you to attend the 2008 Learning Workshop. Like two years ago, the workshop will be co-located with AISTATS and take place under the sun (Florida this time) instead of Snowbird, Utah. It will immediately preceed the AISTATS conference. The workshop is the continuation of the highly succesfull "Neural Networks for Computing", and "Machines that Learn" workshop series held every year at Snowbird since 1986. The Learning workshop seeks to bring together leading researchers in computer science, statistics, physics, neuroscience, and related fields with a common interest in learning and adaptation, natural and artificial. Attendence is by invitation only through recommendations from the program committee. The Learning workshop is the premier forum for researchers in machine learning, statistics, physics, pattern recognition, vision, graphical models, neural nets, neuroscience, adaptive control, speech recognition, and cognitive science, who are interested in natural and synthetic learning. Attendees are strongly encouraged to contribute a one or two page abstract for an oral or poster presentation. The abstract should include a title, the author names as well as electronic and physical addresses. Please indicate which of the authors will present the paper at the conference. A sample abstract is available on the workshop web site. Please follow its format as closely as possible. The abstracts will be reviewed and selected by the program committee in February 2008. To aid in the refereeing and scheduling of papers, please choose a category for your abstract from the list below, and include it at the bottom of the first page of your abstract. Below the category, indicate your preference for oral or poster presentation. Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the website in PostScript. An abstract booklet will be distributed at the meeting and published on the web site around the time of the workshop. Detailed information about the meeting (sample abstract, reservation information,...) is available at http://snowbird.djvuzone.org. *** The deadline for registering and submitting *** *** an abstract is January 19th, 2009. *** CATEGORIES FOR ABSTRACTS: learning algorithms, learning theory, graphical models, learning in biological systems, visual processing and pattern recognition, speech and auditory processing, estimation, prediction, and sequence modeling, control, data mining. REGISTRATION: Although this is an invitation-only meeting, the Learning workshop is entirely self-funded and has no funds to cover attendee expenses. All is not lost, as the registration fee includes breakfasts and dinners. Registration instructions will be provided on the website. For questions or problems, please contact Karen Smith (learning2008@comcast.net). Please include the word "snowbird" in the subject line of all email messages. Workshop Administrator: Karen Smith Learning c/o NEC Labs America 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA tel: (609)951-2651 fax: (609)951-2482 email: learning2008@comcast.net