====== Papers Accepted to NIPS2008... ======

[[http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008//|{{  :nips_logo.conference.jpg?280|NIPS 2008}}]]  September, 2008.  Two papers from our group have been accepted to [[http://nips.cc/Conferences/2008/|NIPS 2008]] to be held from 8-11 of December in Vancouver, Canada.  NIPS 2008 is competitive as usual and the acceptance rate is about 24% (250/1022).  A special congratulations to Dr. Haixuan Yang, whose paper was selected as Spotlight Poster which has an acceptance rate of 12% (123/1022).

  - <bibtex>
@InProceedings{nips2008-xu,
  author =	 {Xu, Zenglin and Jin, Rong and King, Irwin and Lyu,
                  Michael},
  title =	 {An Extended Level Method for Efficient Multiple
                  Kernel Learning},
  booktitle =	 {Advances in Neural Information Processing System 21
                  (NIPS2008)},
  pages =	 {},
  year =	 {2008},
  editor =	 {},
  address =	 {Cambridge, MA},
  month =	 {December,},
  publisher =	 {MIT Press},
  annote =	 {#143, Poster 250/1022=24%},
  url =		 {}
}
</bibtex>
  - <bibtex>
@InProceedings{nips2008-yang,
  author =	 {Yang, Haixuan and King, Irwin and Lyu, Michael},
  title =	 {Learning with Consistency between Inductive
                  Functions and Kernels},
  booktitle =	 {Advances in Neural Information Processing System 21
                  (NIPS2008)},
  pages =	 {},
  year =	 {2008},
  editor =	 {},
  address =	 {Cambridge, MA},
  month =	 {December, },
  publisher =	 {MIT Press},
  annote =	 {#644, Spotlight Poster 123/1022=12%},
  url =		 {}
}
</bibtex>

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