Schedule

  • 7:30 V. Vapnik, AT& T Labs - Research
    “The SVM method of function approximation”

  • 8:00 G. Wahba, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    “Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces, Smoothing Spline ANOVA spaces, Support Vector Machines, and all that”

  • 8:30 L. Kaufman, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    “Solving the Quadratic Programming problem arising in support vector classification”

  • 8:45 C. Burges, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
    “Geometry of Support Vector Machines”

  • 9:00 B. Schölkopf, Max-Planck-Inst. Tübingen and GMD Berlin
    “Kernel Principal Component Analysis”

  • 9:15 D. Mattera and S. Haykin, McMaster University
    “Support Vector Machines for Dynamic Reconstruction of Chaotic Processes”

  • 9:40 K. Müller, GMD First, Berlin
    “Predicting Time Series with Support Vector Machines”

  • 10:00 A. Oren and D. Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign
    “Support Vectors in Natural Language Disambiguation Tasks”

  • 10:15 T. Joachims, Universität Dortmund
    “Support Vector Machines for Text Categorization”

  • 10:30 skiing

  • 16:00 F. Girosi, MIT, Cambridge
    “Support Vector Machines, Regularization Theory and Sparse Approximation”

  • 16:25 K. Bennett, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    “Combining Support Vector and Mathematical Programming Models for Induction”

  • 16:50 M. Stitson, Royal Holloway London
    “Support Vector ANOVA Decomposition”

  • 17:05 J. Weston, Royal Holloway London
    “Density Estimation using Support Vector Machines”

  • 17:20 A. Smola, GMD Berlin
    “General Cost Functions for Support Vector Regression”

  • 17:35 Y. Freund, AT& T Labs - Research
    “Adaboost as a procedure for margin maximization”

  • 18:00 J. Shawe-Taylor, Royal Holloway London
    “Data-sensitive PAC Analysis for SV and Other Machines”

  • 18:15 N. Cristianini, University of Bristol
    “Bayesian Voting Schemes and Large Margin Algorithms”

  • 18:30 D. Schuurmans, U. Pennsylvania & NEC Research
    “Improving and generalizing the basic maximum margin algorithm”

  • 18:45 open discussion

  • 19:00 end