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The Human Language Technology Conference/North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (HLT-NAACL) 2006 annual meeting will be held from June 4-9, 2006 at theNew York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, New York. More information is available here.

AAAI-06 will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, July 16-20, 2006. The schedule of key deadlines is included below. Please note the addition of several new programs, including Senior Member Papers, AAAI Nectar Papers, two special tracks on Integrated Intelligent Capabilities and Artificial Intelligence and the Web, and Member Abstracts and Posters.

For complete information about these and all AAAI-06 programs, please refer to the conference website at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2006/aaai06.html or http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2006/iaai06.html for IAAI-06.

This mail is to announce that the book entitled:

'Visual Computing: Geometry, Graphics, and Vision' is freshly out!

(Hard cover, 560 pp., color insert. Published by Charles River Media / Thomson Delmar Learning, ISBN: 1584504277)

The 11th Meeting of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2006) will be held from April 3rd - 7th 2006 in Trento, Italy. General information is available here and the call for papers is here.

Our 3rd son, Archer Gray Pangburn, was born on Monday, July 25, 2005 at 6:47am. He was 7lbs 1.7oz and 19.5" long.

Both mom and baby are at home and all are doing well.

A few pictures follow below...

Slashdot has coverage of this Cornell University news article comparing mental processing to computer processing.

From the article, "The theory that the mind works like a computer, in a series of distinct stages, was an important steppingstone in cognitive science, but it has outlived its usefulness, concludes a new Cornell University study. Instead, the mind should be thought of more as working the way biological organisms do: as a dynamic continuum, cascading through shades of grey."

After more than a year, I've finally gotten around to releasing a new version of EBLA. This version contains a handful of bug fixes and enhancements. A summary follows below:

The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) will be held in IIT, Kanpur, India during 18-20 December, 2005. The conference series is intended to act as a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing in India and abroad.

More information is available here.

Both KurzweilAI and Slashdot have links this morning to this New Scientist article entitled " Mission to build a simulated brain begins".

The International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP-2005) will be held from September 21-23, 2005 in Borovets, Bulgaria. More information is available here.