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Karen G. Haines, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

General Contact Information
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center
Galles Building ~ 1601 Central Avenue NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

Phone: (505) 277-8371
Fax: (505) 277-8235
Email: karen@eece.unm.edu
Web Site: http://www.ahpcc.unm.edu/~karen

Research Interests

Nonsynaptic Communication

Modeling Simple Visual Processing Systems

Neural Networks

Scientific Visualization

Publications

K. G. Haines, ``A Parallel Artificial Neural Network Model of the Lamina Ganglionaris of Musca domestica that Considers Electrical Nonsynaptic Communication'', Ph.D. Dissertation, University of New Mexico, December, 2000.
K. G. Haines, B. A. Pearlmutter, J. A. Moya, K. Edlund, T. P. Caudell, ``Visualizing Communication Between Neurons in the Lamina Ganglionaris of the Housefly'', Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , July 2000.
K. G. Haines, J. A. Moya, T. P. Caudell, ``Modeling Nonsynaptic Communication Between Neurons in the Lamina Ganglionaris of the Housefly'', Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , July 1999.
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K. G. Haines, P. Alsing, T. P. Caudell, ``Motet: A Paradigm for Integrating Message Passing Interface Routines Into Khoros On IBM SP Parallel Machines'', Proceedings of the 1997 Khoral Research Inc. Symposium, Albuquerque, NM, pp. 145-153, March 1997.
T. Brotherton, T. Pollard, K. G. Haines, ``Echocardiogram Structures and Tissue Classification using Hierarchial Neural Network'', Proceedings 1993 IEEE Conference on Engineering and Biology , IEEE Press, New York, 1993.
J. M. McInerney, K. G. Haines, S. Biafore, R. Hecht-Nielson, ``Backpropagation Error Surfaces Can Have Local Minima'', Proceedings of the IEEE 1990 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 2, pp 164, 1990.
J. M. McInerney, K. G. Haines, S. Biafore, R. Hecht-Nielson, ``Backpropagation Error Surfaces of Multi layer Networks Can Have Local Minima'', UCSD Dept of Computer Science Technical Report (CS89-157), October 1989.
K. G. Haines, R. Hecht-Nielson, ``A BAM with Increased Information Storage Capacity" Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 International Conference on Neural Networks, Vol. 1, pp. 181-190, 1988.