Thanks for the kind reply. I said ICML, but NIPS would have been a better point of reference -- since it was originally conceived as a cross-disciplinary enter

Thanks for the kind reply. I said ICML, but NIPS would have been a better point of reference -- since it was originally conceived as a cross-disciplinary enterprise. The NIPS TOC looks like this: http://nips.djvuzone.org/nipsxx-toc.html http://nips.djvuzone.org/nipsxx-toc.html which indicates it's possible to have a selection of papers both technically sharp and interdisciplinary. We should all be so lucky to attract such a set of papers. I'm reminded of the 1958 editorial by Peter Elias in the IEEE Information Theory Transactions ("Two Famous Papers"): http://oikosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/elias1958ire-editorial.pdf http://oikosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/elias1958ire... I sincerely wish you, your conference, and your research enterprise the best.