NIPS student best paper award

At NIPS 2008, Lars Buesing received the NIPS student best paper award for our paper "On Computational Power and the Order-Chaos Phase Transition in Reservoir Computing". Woot!! Four out of the 1000 submissions got a student best paper award, which consist of a cash price and an invitation to send an extended version to the Journal of Machine Learning. Congrats Lars, you did a wonderful job on the paper.

NIPS was BTW quite stunning this year, an incredible improvement since last year! Finally NIPS again deserves the "Neural" in its name. For once not all paper were on Graphical Models, SVMs and Gibbs Sampling...