The symposium will take place at the CSIRO Campus in Sydney (Marsfield), Australia.

The exponentially increasing demand for computing power as well as physical and economic limitations has contributed to a proliferation of distributed and parallel computer architectures. To make better use of current and future high-performance computing, and to fully benefit from these massive amounts of data, we must discover, understand and exploit the available parallelism in machine learning. Simultaneously, we have to model data in an adequate manner while keeping the models as simple as possible, by making use of a sparse representation of the data or sparse modelling of the respective underlying problem.

The invited speakers are:

Samy Bengio (Google Research, CA, USA)
Barbara Hammer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Yann LeCun (New York University, NY, USA)
Michael Mahoney (Stanford University, CA, USA)

Call for Papers / Extended Abstracts

Through a combination of invited talks, contributed presentations, discussions and posters, we hope to gain a better understanding of available algorithms and best practices, as well as their inherent limitations.
We are looking for submissions of short papers / extended abstracts (at most 4 pages in NIPS format), in one or more of the following areas:

- Distributed, Multicore and Cluster based Learning Techniques
- Machine Learning on Alternative Hardware (GPUs, Robots, Sensor Networks, Mobile Phones, Cell Processors …)
- Sparsity in Machine Learning and Statistics
- Learning results and techniques on Massive Datasets
- Dimensionality Reduction, Sparse Matrix, Large Scale Kernel Methods
- Fast Online Algorithms for Large Scale Data
- Parallel Computing Tools and Libraries

Selected submissions will be considered for a special issue of a journal or a collected volume on the topic of the symposium. A separate call for papers will then be issued after the event for the special issue/collected volume. Please refer to the web page for further details.

Attendance to DMMD 2011 is free, but limited to approx. 50 participants (first in, best dressed – please register by email).

We can not provide travel support, but for a limited (small) number of interstate/overseas students, we will organise free accommodation. Priority will be given to students with an accepted paper. If you would like to be considered for this, please send an email to apply (deadline 1 November 2010).

Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 November, 2010
Registration deadline: 31 December, 2010
Symposium: 18-20 January, 2011

Program Committee

Samy Bengio (Google Research, CA, USA)
Joschka Boedecker (Osaka University, Japan)
Stephan Chalup (University of Newcastle, Newcastle)
Tim Cornwell (CSIRO CASS, Sydney)
Ying Guo (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Barbara Hammer (University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Yann LeCun (New York University, NY, USA)
Simon Lucey (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Michael Mahoney (Stanford University, CA, USA)
N. Michael Mayer (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)
Scott Sanner (NICTA & ANU, Canberra)
John A. Taylor (CSIRO CMIS, Canberra)
Rosalind Wang (CSIRO ICT Centre, Sydney)

The workshop is comprised of a group of researchers with diverse yet related interests, overlapping in the area of self-organizing systems and methods for characterizing those systems in ways that may ultimately allow them to be guided toward prespecified goals. Information theory and graph theory are core to many of these methods; quantifying complexity and its sources a common theme.

If interested in participating, send an extended abstract to the email addresses on the workshop web site.  Selected works from the workshop will likely be published in a special journal issue (as has been the case in the past).  More information on the GSO-2010 web site.

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The name “cyber-physical system” (CPS) was chosen by the NSF and other United States federal agencies for systems that coherently combine computational and physical elements.

The CPS field builds up on knowledge and practical experiences of embedded systems, sensor networks, multi-robot teams, modular/swarm robotics, amorphous computing, programmable materials, evolvable/adaptive hardware, etc., and yet promise to form a unique field.

This Workshop will focus on distributed computation in CPS – the computation processes that integrate multiple data streams, compress and structure high-dimensional information, synchronise the distributed dynamics, adapt to topological changes within networks, optimise multiple sensorimotor loops, etc.

Several prominent invited speakers from Australia, Spain and USA will present different aspects of this rapidly developing research field.

Anyone interested in participating in the workshop is encouraged to submit a two-page extended abstract by May 16, 2010. Notifications will be sent by June 11, 2010 to all those who will be invited to the workshop. All accepted submissions will be allocated an oral presentation slot. See the Workshop Web Page for details.

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Also in Italy, there is the Bertinoro International Summer School of Natural Computation – BNC 2008. It is to be held at the University Residential Center – Bertinoro (Forlì-Cesena), Italy, September 20-27, 2008. See the webpage at http://www.dmi.unict.it/~bnc/index.html for details.

Finally, in Porto, there is NN2008, the 2008 summer school on neural networks in classification, regression and data mining. July 7-11, Porto, Portugal. http://www.nn.isep.ipp.pt.

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This summer school sets out to survey the state of the art in several highly important subareas of the above research domains. The lectures and tutorials will be held by top speakers from academia and industry.

August 18-22, 2008, Castle Ebernburg, Germany. For details, see http://www.gkmm.de/summerschool.

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