The Twentieth International Conference
on Machine Learning (ICML-2003)

August 21-24, 2003
Washington, DC USA

The Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2003) was held in Washington, DC on August 21-24, 2003, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. ICML was co-located with KDD and COLT.

Organization

Program Chairs:	Tom Fawcett (HP Labs) and Nina Mishra (HP Labs/Stanford)
Local Arrangements Chair:	Tim Oates (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Workshops and Tutorials Chair:	Dunja Mladenic (Jozef Stefan Institute)
Funding Chair:	Andrew McCallum (University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
Proceedings Chair:	Terran Lane (University of New Mexico)
Treasurer:	Stephen D. Scott (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
Banker:	Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University)
Student Paper Awards Chair:	Robert Holte (University of Alberta)
Registration Chair:	Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

Advisory Committee, Area Chairs and Program Committee

Conference statistics

Here are the viewgraphs we used at the business meeting. These contain various statistics, issues, problems, etc. raised there. The proceedings foreword has some basic statistics about the conference submissions, but these viewgraphs go further and give some historical perspective.

Conference schedules

Basic conference schedule (3 pages)
Complete conference schedule: (20 pages) Postscript (compressed) or PDF.

The complete conference schedule is more up-to-date and definitive. The basic schedule is useful for giving a high-level overview.

Proceedings

The proceedings of ICML-2003 can be ordered on-line from this web page (AAAI Press). Use the order form link to the left of the picture.

All accepted papers are now available on-line (alphabetical list by first author).

Two ICML technical papers won a student paper award this year:

Yaakov Engel
Hebrew University
Title: Bayes meets Bellman: The Gaussian Process Approach to Temporal Difference Learning
Authors: Yaakov Engel, Shie Mannor and Ron Meir

Risi Kondor
Columbia University
Title: A Kernel Between Sets of Vectors
Authors: Risi Kondor and Tony Jebara

Congratulations, Yaakov and Risi! And thanks to the Machine Learning journal for sponsoring the student paper awards.

Invited talks

Talk viewgraphs now on-line.

Michael Kearns, Computational Learning Theory: A Retrospective
Daphne Koller, Statistical Learning from Relational Data (joint with KDD)
Foster Provost, The Role of Applications in the Science of Machine Learning
[Viewgraphs]

Workshops

ICML-2003 hosted the following workshops:

Machine Learning Technologies for Autonomous Space Applications
Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
The Continuum from Labeled to Unlabeled Data in Machine Learning and Data Mining
Learning from Imbalanced Data Sets II

For more information, please see the ICML-2003 Workshops page.

Tutorials

ICML-2003 hosted the following tutorials:

Mining Time Series Data, by Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
The State of the Art in Language Modeling, by Joshua Goodman, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.
Practical Sample Complexity, by John Langford, IBM, TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA.
Machine Learning and Genetic Microarrays, by Jude Shavlik and David Page, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA.

For more information, please see the ICML-2003 Tutorials page.

ICML-2003 also featured a tutorial for students by Marie desJardins, Rob Holte and Rob Schapire.

Important dates

~~17 Jan 2003 --- Workshop proposals due~~ (past)
~~15 Feb 2003 --- Tutorial proposals due~~ (past)
~~21 Feb 2003 --- Papers due~~ (past)
~~early May 2003 --- Authors notified of decisions.~~ (past)
10 June 2003 --- Camera Ready deadline. (past)
~~17 June 2003, 17:00 MDT --- Permission-to-publish forms due to Terran Lane~~ (past)
27 July 2003 --- Early registration deadline (past)