other activities

• Recent:
  • Object recognition and categorization: some lessons from psychophysics, neurobiology and computation (invited talk at the Workshop on Generic Object Recognition and Categorization @ CVPR 2004, June 27, 2004, Washington, DC)
  • Unsupervised learning in vision: computational principles, biological evidence (invited talk at the Workshop on Statistical Learning in Computer Vision @ ECCV 2004, May 15, 2004, Prague)
  • Language Universals — the spring symposium of the Cornell Cognitive Studies Program (May 1 and 2, 2004, Ithaca, NY).
  • Syntax, Semantics and Statistics — a NIPS'03 workshop (Whistler, BC, Dec. 2003)
• Ongoing:
  • Cornell Cognitive Studies Program.
  • Cornell Program in Information Science.
• Past:
  • The CUSS (Cornell University Social Sciences) faculty seminar in which I participated in 2000-2001.
  • The workshop I co-organized with Nathan Intrator at NIPS'2000: Representing the Structure of Visual Objects.
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach - the winter symposium of the Cornell Cognitive Studies program (Jan. 19, 2001).
  • From Signals to Structured Communication - the spring symposium of the Cornell Cognitive Studies program (May 4 and 5, 2001)
  • Cornell Cognitive Studies winter symposium (Jan. 25, 2002): Consciousness.
  • Cornell Cognitive Studies spring symposium (May 2-4, 2003): Empirical Methods in Cognitive Linguistics (EMCL) Workshop.