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<H3>Program Committee</H3>

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    <td>Yasemin Altun</td>
    <td>Brown University</td>
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    <td width="199">Hagai Attias            </td>
    <td width="268">Golden Metallic, Inc.</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Francis Bach</td>
    <td>University of California, Berkeley</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Matthew Beal</td>
    <td>SUNY Buffalo</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Yoshua Bengio</td>
    <td>University of Montreal </td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Christopher Bishop</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>David Blei</td>
    <td>University of California, Berkeley</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Olivier Bousquet</td>
    <td>Pertinence</td>
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  <tr>
    <td>Wray Buntine</td>
    <td>Helsinki Institute for Information Technology</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Olivier Chapelle</td>
    <td>Max Planck Institute</td>
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    <td>Guido Consonni</td>
    <td>University of Pavia</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Greg Cooper</td>
    <td>University of Pittsburgh</td>
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    <td>Adrian Corduneanu</td>
    <td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td>
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    <td>Denver Dash</td>
    <td>Intel Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Phil Dawid</td>
    <td>University College London</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Nando de Freitas</td>
    <td>University of British Columbia</td>
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    <td>Vanessa Didelez</td>
    <td>University College London</td>
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    <td>Michael Duff</td>
    <td>Trinity College</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Nir Friedman</td>
    <td>Hebrew University of Jerusalem</td>
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    <td height="26">Dan Geiger</td>
    <td>Technion - Israel Institute of Technology</td>
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    <td>Lise Getoor</td>
    <td>University of Maryland</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Paolo Giudici</td>
    <td>University of Pavia</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Tom Griffiths</td>
    <td>Stanford University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Peter Grunwald</td>
    <td>CWI, Netherlands</td>
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    <td>Carlos Guestrin</td>
    <td>Carnegie Mellon University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>David Heckerman</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Ralf Herbrich</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Tom Heskes</td>
    <td>University of Nijmegen</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Thomas Hofmann</td>
    <td>Brown University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Chris Holmes</td>
    <td>University of Oxford</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Tommi Jaakkola</td>
    <td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Nebojsa Jojic</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Anitha Kannan </td>
    <td>University of Toronto</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Uffe Kjærulff</td>
    <td>Aalborg University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>John Lafferty</td>
    <td>Carnegie Mellon University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>John Langford</td>
    <td>TTI - Chicago</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Neil Lawrence</td>
    <td>University of Sheffield</td>
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    <td>Guy Lebanon</td>
    <td>Carnegie Mellon University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Juan Lin</td>
    <td>Rutgers University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>David Madigan</td>
    <td>Rutgers University</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Chris Meek</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Marina Meila</td>
    <td>University of Washington</td>
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    <td>Tom Minka</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Quaid Morris</td>
    <td>University of Toronto</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Iain Murray</td>
    <td>Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Kevin Murphy</td>
    <td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</td>
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    <td>Petri Myllymäki</td>
    <td>University of Helsinki</td>
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    <td>Nuria Oliver</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
  </tr>
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    <td>Manfred Opper</td>
    <td>University of Southampton</td>
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    <td>Fernando Perez-Cruz</td>
    <td>Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit</td>
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    <td>John Platt</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
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    <td>Thomas Richardson</td>
    <td>University of Washington</td>
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    <td>Imre Risi Kondor</td>
    <td>Columbia University</td>
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    <td>Michal Rosen-Zvi</td>
    <td>University of California, Irvine</td>
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    <td>Sam Roweis</td>
    <td>University of Toronto</td>
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    <td>Lawrence Saul</td>
    <td>University of Pennsylvania</td>
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    <td>Dale Schuurmans</td>
    <td>University of Alberta</td>
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    <td>Paola Sebastiani</td>
    <td>Boston University</td>
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    <td>Matthias Seeger</td>
    <td>University of California, Berkeley</td>
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    <td>Prakash Shenoy</td>
    <td>University of Kansas</td>
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    <td>Yoram Singer</td>
    <td>Hebrew University of Jerusalem</td>
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    <td>Jim Smith</td>
    <td>University of Warwick</td>
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    <td>Alex Smola</td>
    <td>Australian National University</td>
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    <td>Bo Thiesson</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
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    <td>Henry Tirri</td>
    <td>University of Helsinki</td>
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    <td>Volker Tresp</td>
    <td>Siemens Research</td>
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    <td>Linda van der Gaag</td>
    <td>University of Utrecht</td>
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    <td>Vladimir Vovk</td>
    <td>Royal Holloway University of London</td>
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    <td>Martin Wainwright</td>
    <td>University of California, Berkeley</td>
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    <td>Max Welling</td>
    <td>University of California, Irvine</td>
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    <td>Jason Weston</td>
    <td>NEC Labs America</td>
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    <td>Joe Whittaker</td>
    <td>Lancaster University</td>
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    <td>Yee Whye Teh</td>
    <td>University of California, Berkeley</td>
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    <td>Chris Williams</td>
    <td>University of Edinburgh</td>
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    <td>John Winn</td>
    <td>Microsoft Research</td>
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    <td>Eric Xing</td>
    <td>Carnegie Mellon University</td>
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    <td>Xiaojin Zhu</td>
    <td>Carnegie Mellon University</td>
  </tr>
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