These photos are taken from video camera (DV) in 720 x 560 pixel resolution, but here they are reduced to 50 % (email me for full photos).
Como - the city of Alessandro Volta! Can we imagine the world without electricity ?
The city of Como lies at the northen end of the Lago di Como; we've spend Sunday on the ship visiting Bellagio, Varrena and Menaggio. Grand Hotel di Como was in Cernobbio, seen here from one of the hills.
IJCNN'2000 opening ceremony; Mariagiovanna Sami and Eros Pasero, conference organizers, listing to Shun-ichi Amari giving the first plenary talk.
Let's party! The evening reception: Marco Gori (program chairperson - Italians are politically correct) optimizing the wine selection (muscat won); Marco with Deliang and Norbert Jankowski enjoying his selection.
Bruno Apolloni, Mariagiovanna Sami and some participants.
John Taylor, his wife and Norbert Jankowski; Deliang, Erki Oja and Norbert
Lai Wan Chan and Wlodek Duch; Deliang Wang and Dan Levine
Experts start training their neural networks quite early although solving real problems is NP-hard; father Thomas Trappenberg watching his childperson (this is politically correct, I hope).