<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues (sorry for cross-post),<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div> Some of you may not know but during BRICS-CCI & CBIC 2013</div><div>next September in Brazil, we will hold a <b>Theses & Dissertations Competition </b></div>
<div>on all AI / CI Topics. That is why I am writing now, to ask for you to encourage </div><div>your best students (who have completed their PG work between <strong style="font-size:13px;outline:0px;color:rgb(87,87,87);font-family:Arial;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">1st June of 2010 </strong></div>
<div><strong style="font-size:13px;outline:0px;color:rgb(87,87,87);font-family:Arial;line-height:20px;background-color:rgb(245,245,245)">until 20th May of 2013)</strong> to take part in this very exciting competition. </div>
<div><br></div><div> All details are at: <a href="http://brics-cci.org/theses-and-dissertations-competition/" target="_blank">http://brics-cci.org/theses-and-dissertations-competition/</a> </div><div>The pre-selection phase of the competition needs almost no work. Finalists will </div>
<div>have to travel for "vivas" that will be held during the Congress at the not-so-ugly </div><div>beach Village of 'Porto de Galinhas' (top beach of Brazil for 10 years), more at </div><div><a href="http://brics-cci.org/location-2/" target="_blank">http://brics-cci.org/location-2/</a>. It would be really nice if the supervisors of the </div>
<div>contestants could be present as well. Notice that it is our plan to promote lively </div><div>discussion on all topics presented-defended during competition (and congress) in </div><div>one of the four panels of specialists (including in an unusual one: "the trial of AI" </div>
<div><a href="http://brics-cci.org/the-trial-of-a-i-team/" target="_blank">http://brics-cci.org/the-trial-of-a-i-team/</a>). </div><div><br></div><div> Next week we will be informing you about <i>another competition</i> that will be </div>
<div>held during our Congress: <b>AI/CI Algorithms Competition</b>. </div><div><br></div><div> -Please, spread the word and "let the games begin"! </div><div> (Attached you have the 2nd CFP)</div>
<div><br></div><div> All the best, Fernando Buarque - General Join-Chair of BRICS-CCI & CBIC2013</div><div>(on the behalf of Profs. Ildar Batyrshin and Emilio Hernandez - Competition Chairs)</div><div> </div>
<div> BRICS-CCI => <a href="http://brics-cci.org" target="_blank">brics-cci.org</a> .OR. CBIC => <a href="http://cbic2013.org" target="_blank">cbic2013.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>PS: ...and still for the ones who are not faint-hearted, please check the out-doors </div>
<div>and sports page of the congress <a href="http://brics-cci.org/social-sport-familyprogram/" target="_blank">http://brics-cci.org/social-sport-familyprogram/</a> </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><a href="http://fbln.pro.br/images/FBLN_Footer.jpg" target="_blank"></a> </div>
<div><a href="http://fbln.pro.br/images/FBLN_Footer.jpg" target="_blank">Prof. Fernando Buarque</a>, <font size="1">BSc MSc DIC PhD, Senior Member IEEE, PQ-2 CNPq</font><br><div style="text-align:left"><div style="text-align:-webkit-auto">
<div style="text-align:left"><font size="1">Professor Associado - </font><span style="font-size:x-small">Escola Politécnica/</span><font size="1">Universidade de Pernambuco </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">POLI</a><span style="font-size:x-small">/</span><a href="http://www.poli.br/" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">UPE</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span></div>
</div><div><font size="1">Coordenador do Mestrado de Engenharia de Computação da UPE (<a href="http://mestrado.ecomp.poli.br/" target="_blank">PPG-EC</a>)</font></div><div><font size="1">Docente do Mestrado de Engenharia de Sistemas da UPE (<a href="http://ppges.poli.br/" target="_blank">PPG-ES</a>) </font></div>
<div style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small">Docente da Graduação de Engenharia de Computação da UPE </span><span style="font-size:x-small">(</span><a href="http://www.ecomp.poli.br/" style="font-size:x-small" target="_blank">E-Comp</a><span style="font-size:x-small">)</span><span style="font-size:x-small"> </span></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:x-small">Pesquisador </span><font size="1">Líder do Grupo de Inteligência Computacional da UPE (<a href="http://www.cirg.ecomp.upe.br/" target="_blank">CIRG@UPE</a>)</font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font size="1">Coordenador Técnico do Núcleo de Telemedicina da UPE (<a href="http://www.nutes.upe.br/" target="_blank">NUTES@UPE</a>)</font></div></div><div><font size="1">Visiting Professor - University of Johannesburg, South Africa (<a href="http://virtualtour.co.za/clients/University/index.html" target="_blank">Kingsway Campus</a>)</font></div>
<div><font size="1">Graduate Faculty - Computer Science/Florida Institute of Technology, USA (<a href="http://coe.fit.edu/cs/" target="_blank">CS@FIT</a>) </font></div></div></div><div><img src="http://brics-cci.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/bricsNovo.jpg" width="420" height="153"><br>
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