Best Paper Awards of ANNIE '96

ANNIE 96 - Theoretical Developments in Techniques Award

Best Paper

Noisy Recurrent Neural Networks

Oluseyi Olurotimi
and
Soumitra Das

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia

First Runner-Up

Evolving and Optimizing Braitenberg Vehiches

Ralf Solomon

AI Lab, Computer Science Department
University of Zurich, Zurich Switzerland

Second Runner-Up

Control of a Nonlinear Multivariable System with Adaptive Critic Designs

Nikita A. Visnevski
and
Danil V. Prokhorov

Applied Computational Intelligence Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

ANNIE '96 - Novel Engineering Application Award

Best Paper

Neural Network for Control of Stimulation of Peripheral Motor Nuerons to Allow Patient Responsive Ambulation

Daniel Graupe
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Hubert Kordylewski
Department of Bioengineering
University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

First Runner-Up

Coding a Conceptual Model Into a Neural Network in Modeling of Ice-Correction

Markus Huttunen
Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Bertel Vehvilainen
Finnish Environment Institute, Finland

Esko Ukkonen
Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki

Second Runners-Up

Neural Networks for Accelerating the Transistor Design Process

Ryan Ferguson
and
David J. Roulston
Silicon Devices and Integrated Circuits Laboratory
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

AND

A Preliminary Investigation of Selection of EEG and Psychophysiological Features for Classifying Pilot Workload

Kelly A. Greene and Kenneth W. Bauer
Department of Operational Sciences, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio

Matthew Kabrisky and Steven K. Rogers
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio

Christopher A. Russell and Glenn F. Wilson
Performance Assesment Branch, Armstrong Laboratories, Dayton, Ohio