We have THREE postdoctoral openings in the field of Robotics and Animation, with an emphasis on Machine Learning techniques for adaptive representation, dynamic planning and motion synthesis in high dimensional, anthropomorphic robotic systems and articulated full-physics animation. We are looking for highly motivated individuals with a strong publication record and solid background in the fundamentals of machine learning, planning and control in robots and/or experience with physically based graphics and animation.

University College London has an opening for a Reader/Professorship in
Computational/Systems Biology.

Please see the following link for more information:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACF512/reader-professorship-in-computational-s...

Dear Pascal researchers,

we are proud to announce mldata, the machine learning data set
repository at http://mldata.org.

mldata is a community website aimed at exchanging data sets. Compared
to existing sites, the emphasis lies on community. That means that
anyone can upload data, comment on existing data sets, contribute
solutions to existing data sets, discuss topics in the forum, and in
general easily interact with other users.

mldata is organized into four main types of objects:

* Data - just raw data
* Task - learning tasks defined on data sets

Featured BMI Workshop
IEEE SMC 2011: 3rd Annual Workshop on Brain-Machine Interfaces

Anchorage, Alaska
October 10-11, 2011

This workshop is co-sponsored jointly by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC), Circuits and Systems Society (CAS), and the Engineering, Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

Important Dates
April 1, 2011: Deadline for submission of full-length papers

June 1, 2011: Acceptance/Rejection notification

July 5, 2011: Final camera-ready papers due in electronic form

For more details:
http://www.smc2011.org/technical-program/bmi-workshop

1st International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition

28-30 September, 2011
Venice, Italy

http://www.dsi.unive.it/~simbad

MOTIVATIONS AND OBJECTIVES

Traditional pattern recognition techniques are intimately linked to
the notion of "feature spaces." Adopting this view, each object is
described in terms of a vector of numerical attributes and is
therefore mapped to a point in a Euclidean (geometric) vector space so
that the distances between the points reflect the observed
(dis)similarities between the respective objects. This kind of

In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers working on inference problems
in computer vision and pattern recognition, in which the specific 'structures' that arise in
real applications allow for reduced complexity or increased accuracy.

Well-known examples include submodularity, sparsity, and convexity.
However, there are numerous lesser-known yet important results:
exploiting shared potentials; choosing message-passing schemes based on specific
inputs; exploiting potential functions that are 'truncated'; exploiting topology in

19th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks,
Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning

Bruges (Belgium) - April 27-28-20, 2011

Preliminary program
The preliminary program of the ESANN 2011 conference is now available on the Web:

http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

For those of you who maintain WWW pages including lists of related machine learning and artificial neural networks sites: we would appreciate if you could add the above URL to your list; thank you very much!

This PhD will investigate links between neuroscience, social insect collective behaviour, and decision theory. Theories of optimal decision-making have successfully been applied to individual-level decisions, both in explaining data from experimental subjects, and in analysing the optimal performance of neurobiologically realistic models. A key feature of many such models is that sensory evidence is compared against some internal threshold in determining what choice to make.

2 PhD Research Studentships
Personalised Summary Generation
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACE550/phd-research-studentship-personalised-s...
Machine Learning Methods for User Modelling and Personalised Summarisation
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACE552/phd-research-studentship-machine-learni...
Natural Language Processing Research Group, University of Sheffield - Department of Computer Science

Applications are invited for two fully funded PhD studentships on the topics stated above.

Call For Papers: Social Web Mining, co-located with IJCAI, Barcelona, Spain, 18 July 2011
WWW: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~sguo/swm.html

Introduction: