Conference paper deadline: ICONIP 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP) 2011 is June 1, 2011. This conference will be held in Shanghai, China, November 14-17, 2011.

Associate Professor Mark Laws

I returned home from holiday yesterday to the heart-breaking news that Associate Professor Mark Laws had drowned. He leaves behind his wife, three daughters and five grandchildren.

Mark was a gifted researcher, a loving and devoted husband and father, and my friend.

Mark and I did our PhDs together in the old Knowledge Engineering Lab at the University of Otago. For years we shared an office, worked together, and partied together. With a handful of others from the lab, he made my time as a post-grad not only bearable, but fun.

He was devoted to his family - I still remember how proud he was of his daughters achievements, and how happy he was when his first grand-child was born. It's for them that I feel the most.

Over the last few years we hadn't seen each other as much as we would have liked, but every time I saw him, he had a big smile and welcoming hug for me. I learned so much from him and I'm immensely grateful to have had him in my life.

I still can't believe that he's gone.

Conference paper deadline: ICOMLAI 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Conference on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (ICOMLAI) 2011 is February 1st, 2011. This conference will be held in Penang, Malaysia, June 1-2 2011.

Conference paper deadline: IWANN 2011

The paper submission deadline for the International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks 2011 (IWANN 2011) is 21 January 2011. This workshop will be held in Torremolinos, Spain, 8-10 June, 2011.