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The 8th International Workshop on
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics

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The Proceedings of AISTATS 2001 are now available.

January 3 - 6, 2001
Key West, Florida, USA

The 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics was held in Key West, Florida, USA from Wednesday, 3 January 2001 to Saturday, 6 January 2001 at the The Hyatt Hotel.

This webpage acts as a record of the program and talks given.

Since its inception in 1985, AISTATS has been an interdisciplinary gathering of researchers at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics, and related areas.

• Tutorials (January 4)
  • David Edwards (Novo Pharmaceutical Company)
    "Graphical models for mixed data : an introduction to the theory and practice"
  • Yoav Freund    (AT&T Research)
    "Predicting More -- Assuming Less, new methodologies in statistical inference"
  • David MacKay  (University of Cambridge)
    "Error correcting codes and belief propagation"
• Main program (January 5-7)
• On-line repository of workshop papers
• Registration (early registration deadline was December 1)
• Hotel information/reservations The workshop participants will receive a substantially reduced rate.

Information for authors (final papers were due November 10)

Call for papers

Program Chairs

• Thomas Richardson, University of Washington
• Tommi Jaakkola, MIT