The 28th Annual Conference of the Japanese Neural Network Society (JNNS2018) will be held from October 24th to 27th at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST).

JNNS2018 aims to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, educators, and students to discuss the latest progress and future challenges in the field of neural information processing.

This year, JNNS aims to make the conference international with all the presentations in English and world-renowned keynote lecturers, Dr. Shun-ich Amari (RIKEN Center for Brain Science) and Dr. Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL). Travel support will be provided for selected student presenters.

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  Important Dates

• May 1st: Pre-registration start.
• June 30th => July 9th: Paper submission deadline.
• August 31st: Pre-registration end.
• October 18th: Regular registration end.
• October 24th to 27th: Conference.

  What’s New

• April 11th: Website is launched.
• June 29th: Paper submission deadline was extended.
• July 6th: The schedule (tentative) of the free shuttle bus was updated.
• August 30th: The 2nd keynote lecturer was changed from Dr. Poggio (MIT) to Dr. Sahani (UCL).
• August 31st: Explanation for "Visa to enter Japan" was added to the registration page.
• September 1st: Technical Programs are available.
• October 9th: Poster presentation guidelines are available.
• October 9th: Cancellation and refund policy was added to the registration page.
• October 9th: Satellite Workshop was added to the program page.
• October 24th: The materials for three tutorials are available: Tutorial1−1 (PDF 48.9MB), Tutorial1−2 (PDF 107MB), Tutorial2 (PDF 60.8MB), Tutorial3 (PDF 20.2MB).
• October 29th: The materials for two keynote lectures are available: KeynoteLecture1 (PDF 1.6MB), KeynoteLecture2 (PDF 4.7MB).

  Sponsors

Sponsor

• Japanese Neural Network Society

Co-sponsors

• Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
• KAKENHI Innovative Areas "Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science"

Cooperations

• The Japan Neuroscience Society
• The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
• The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers
• information Processing Society of Japan
• The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
• The Institute of Electorical Engineers of Japan
• The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers(IEICE)
• The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Acoustical Society of Japan
• The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
• The Japanese Psychonomic Society
• Vision Society of Japan
• The Society for Simulation Technology
• The Japanese Psychological Association
• Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory and Intelligent Informatics
• Japanese Cognitive Science Society
• The Virtual Reality Society of Japan
• The Robotics Society of Japan
• Human Interface Society
• Fuzzy Logic Systems Institute