PRESIDENT AMARI: WCNN Announcement (Return to ICNN97 Homepage)
In the last few years, many members of INNS have expressed dissatisfaction with the existence of two major, competing neural network meetings in North America. A number of months ago, IEEE and INNS began informal discussions about the possibility of reinstituting cooperation. This week, we had further contacts with IEEE, and the INNS Board Members have made a strong decision to proceed to reinstitute the tradition of joint meetings, perhaps as early as 1997.
There are certain details which need to be worked out, and decisions which need to be approved. In the spirit of cooperation, the INNS Board has elected to replace the planned 1997 INNS meeting in Boston by supporting the meeting in Houston next June, let this time by IEEE, by offering a strong INNS technical involvement.
WE REMIND YOU THE PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR THE HOUSTON MEETING IS SET AT NOVEMBER 1 (NOV. 15 FOR INNS MEMBERS ONLY).
We trust that we will later be able to follow a pattern of alternating the lead roles, as we did with IJCNNs in the past. We urge all of you to plan to join with us in Houston, to help support this effort to reunite the neural network community.
SHUN-ICHI AMARI