This volume constitutes the twenty-first IJCAI conference. The locations and times of all twenty-one IJCAI conferences are as follows: 21 IJCAI-09: Pasadena, California, USA (July 11–17) 20 IJCAI-07: Hyderabad, India (January 6–12) 19 IJCAI-05: Edinburgh, Scotland (July 30–August 5) 18 IJCAI-03: Acapulco, Mexico (August 9–15) 17 IJCAI-01: Seattle, Washington, USA (August 4–10) 16 IJCAI-99: Stoc...

The latest in a series of natural language processing system evaluations was concluded in October 1995 and was the topic of the Sixth Message Understanding Conference (MUC-6) in November, co-chaired by Ralph Grishman (NYU) and Beth Sundheim (NRaD). Participants were invited to enter their systems in as many as four different task-oriented evaluations. The Named Entity and Coreference tasks enta...

The Division of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis, invites applications for an ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY (pending budgetary approval). This is a tenure-track position in the Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology within the Division, which could include an appointment in the Agricultural Experiment Station. This position reflects the Section’s o...

During the organization of a conference and moreover during the conference a cooperation between different organizations is necessary to deliver optimal services for the conference participants. In the m>Forvm project we apply techniques developed for virtual enterprises in the MOVE project. m>Forvm addresses optimized communication to participants as well as to supporting organizations. The in...

A position is available immediately to study neurogenesis and programmed cell death during neural development, using mouse olfactory epithelium as a model tissue. Techniques employed include cell and molecular biology and generation of transgenic mice. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in neurobiology, cell or developmental biology, molecular biology, or a related field. Salary is commensurate wit...