Cross-Cutting Research Workshops on Intelligent Information Systems

约翰霍普金斯大学正在组织一系列关于智能信息系统的年度研究研讨会，重点是语音、语言和视觉技术的机器学习，以汇集不同的？梦团队?领先的专业人士，研究生和本科生，在一个真正的合作，密集和实质性的努力，以推动科学的状态。提议的研讨会系列的主要目标是开发适用于广泛智能系统的机器学习原理，吸引学生到该领域，并通过让他们在高度协作的环境中与高级研究人员一起研究令人兴奋的问题，为研究做好准备。建立研究基础设施和持久合作是次要目标。每年向全球IIS社区的研究人员公开征集研讨会项目建议。收到的提案将在互动式同行评审会议上进行竞争性评估和合作改进，项目支持者、政府代表和相关领域的专家将在会上评估其科学价值、可行性和潜在影响。参加研讨会的研究生熟悉该领域，并根据他们的表现进行选择。本科毕业生为初入本领域并在学术上有突出表现的大四学生；他们是通过全国搜索选出的。本科生参与这些研究项目，鼓励有才华的青年学者到IIS攻读研究生课程。到这个为期3年的系列研讨会结束时（从2010年开始），将有100多人进行深入的合作研究：大约30名学术和行业研究人员，20名政府和国家实验室的研究人员，30名研究生和20名本科生。讲习班的其他好处将是为国际信息系统研究收集或创造和传播有价值的工具和数据，建立富有成效和持久的合作，以及参与者之间的思想交流。

A series of annual research workshops on Intelligent Information Systems, centered on machine learning for speech, language and vision technologies, are being organized at Johns Hopkins University to bring together diverse ?dream teams? of leading professionals, graduate students, and undergraduates, in a truly cooperative, intensive, and substantive effort to advance the state of the science.The primary goals of the proposed workshop series are to develop machine learning principles applicable to a broad spectrum of intelligent systems, to attract students to the field and to prepare them for research by putting them to work on exciting problems alongside senior researchers in a highly collaborative environment. Creation of research infrastructure and lasting collaborations are secondary goals.An open call for workshop project proposals is being issued each year to researchers in the worldwide IIS community. Received proposals are competitively evaluated and cooperatively refined at interactive peer review meetings, where project proponents, government representatives, and experts from related fields meet to assess their scientific merit, viability and potential impact. The graduate students attending the workshop are familiar with the field and are selected in accordance with their demonstrated performance. The undergraduates are entering seniors who are new to the field and who have shown outstanding academic promise; they are selected through a national search. The participation of undergraduates in these research programs encourages talented young scholars to pursue graduate studies in IIS.By the end of this 3-year workshop series (beginning 2010), more than a hundred individuals will have conducted intensive collaborative research: about 30 academic and industry researchers, 20 researchers from government and national laboratories, 30 graduate students, and 20 undergraduates. Additional benefits of the workshops will be the collection or creation, and dissemination of valuable tools and data for IIS research, the establishment of fruitful and long-lasting collaborations, and the cross-fertilization of ideas among the participants.