EWLR-8 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots     
               to be held at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland 
                       Saturday 18th September

            Travel Grants Available for MLNet Members

We are please to announce that 5 travel grants for members of MLNet
are available to attend EWLR-8. Each travel grant will cover basic
travel costs and also subsistence to a maximum of 400 ECU.

EWLR-8 is the principal European venue for presentation of work on
Robot Learning. Details of the workshop, including a programme of
speakers can be found at

         http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~jlw/ewlr/

Applications should be sent to Jeremy Wyatt (jlw@cs.bham.ac.uk) or Maarten
van Someren (maarten@swi.psy.uva.nl), by 23rd July 1999. 

A condition of the grant is that a report is sent to MLNet describing
recent developments and prospects in robot learning as discussed at
the workshop. It envisaged that this report will be written
collaboratively with the Workshop Organizers.