NIPS08

use this free template

Preview this template

Dear NIPS attendees,

After noticing the possible spread of a cold at NIPS, with many colleagues complaining about various symptoms, we thought it would be useful to explore if any large scale epidemiological phenomena could be uncovered from the conference and/or workshops. After all, it never hurts to have another data set of possible correlations and causalities! We hope you can spend a minute or two filling out the following questions.

Conference Participation

Which portions of NIPS did you attend? (check one or both)

Vancouver

Whistler

Which events did you attend in Vancouver

Tutorials (Dec 8th)

Opening Banquet (Dec 8th)

Evening Session (Dec 8th)

Day Session (Dec 9th)

Day Session (Dec 10th)

Morning Session (Dec 11th)

Mini Symposia - Algebraic Methods in Machine Learning (Dec 11th)

Mini Symposia - Computational Photography (Dec 11th)

Mini Symposia - Machine Learning in Computational Biology (Dec 11th)

Mini Symposia - Principled Theoretical Frameworks for the Perception-Action Cycle (Dec 11th)

Which Friday events did you attend in Whistler? (select all that apply)

Algebraic and Combinatorial Methods in Machine Learning

Analyzing Graphs: Theory and Applications

Beyond Search: Computational Intelligence for the Web (day 1)

Machine Learning in Computational Biology

Machine Learning Meets Human Learning

Machine Learning Open Source Software

New Challenges in Theoretical Machine Learning: Data Dependent Concept Spaces

Optimization for Machine Learning

Principled Theoretical Frameworks for the Perception-Action Cycle

Speech and Language: Learning-based Methods and Systems

Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Response Dependencies in Neural Populations (day 1)

Structured Input - Structured Output

Causality: objectives and assessment

Cost Sensitive Learning

Which Saturday events did you attend in Whistler? (select all that apply)

Beyond Search: Computational Intelligence for the Web (day 2)

Kernel Learning: Automatic Selection of Optimal Kernels

Learning from Multiple Sources

Model Uncertainty and Risk in Reinforcement Learning

Parallel Implementations of Learning Algorithms: What have you done for me lately?

Probabilistic Programming: Universal Languages, Systems and Applications

Speech and Language: Unsupervised Latent-Variable Models

Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Response Dependencies in Neural Populations (day 2)

Stochastic Models of Behaviour

Approximate inference - how far have we come?

Cortical Microcircuits and their Computational Functions

New Directions in Statistical Learning for Meaningful and Reproducible fMRI Analysis

Accommodations

Vancouver Hotel

Hyatt

Other

Whistler hotel

Westin

Hilton

Other

Illness

If you were sick during the window Dec 8th - Dec 20th, please indicate the approximate date you felt sick. I first felt sick:

Before the conference/workshop	During the conference/workshop	After the conference/workshop	I was not sick
Before the conference/workshop	During the conference/workshop	After the conference/workshop	I was not sick

If you were sick, which symptoms did you have? (please select all that apply)

Congestion

Headache

Nausea

Upset Stomach

Other

Attendee Information

Because we'd like to correlate potential outbreak patterns with the NIPS author network, we'd be grateful if you would volunteer the following information (even partial information is useful):

Name

Institution

State/Province/Region

Country

use this free template

NIPS08

Conference Participation

Accommodations

Illness

Attendee Information

Related templates and questionnaires

QuestionPro in your language

Awards & certificates

The Experience Journal