Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

The NIPS conference stands for Neural Information Processing Systems. It has recently become the trendy place for bayesian Artificial Intelligience though is described by some as the latest 'AI bandwagon'. Will it revolutionise AI or will it go the same way as previous AI bandwagons? Only time will tell.

NIPS is charaterised by a very dry, mathematical approach to AI, as championed by Chris Bishop, Michael Jordan and Microsoft's AI research team. Traditional links to philosophy, cognitive science and psychology are being severed and replaced by statistical approaches. In many ways the 'Neural' in NIPS's own acroynm is now a historical relic.