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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>=== COGNITIVE COMPUTATION SYMPOSIUM: THINKING BEYOND DEEP LEARNING (CoCoSym) ===<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Location: City, University  of London<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Date: February 27, 2018<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Website: <a href="http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCoSym2018/index.html">http://www.neural-symbolic.org/CoCoSym2018/index.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Registration: <span class=MsoHyperlink><a href="http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific-events/cognitive-computation-symposium-thinking-beyond-deep-learning">http://estore.city.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conference-events/school-specific-events/cognitive-computation-symposium-thinking-beyond-deep-learning</a></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>### THE BIG QUESTIONS ###<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Is Deep Learning the ultimate solution to the problem(s) of Artificial Intelligence?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- If it isn’t, how could and/or should AI and ML continue once the hype breaks?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- What is going to be “the next big thing” after Deep Learning?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>### THE PEOPLE ###<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Host/Chair: Tarek R. Besold (City, University of London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'>Co-Convenors: Artur d’Avila Garcez (City, University of London), Michael Spranger (Sony CSL), Michael Witbrock (IBM Research AI).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: 2;widows: 2;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;text-decoration-style: initial;text-decoration-color: initial;word-spacing:0px'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Confirmed speakers include: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Eduardo Alonso (City, University of London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Antoine Bordes (Facebook AI Research)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Edward Grefenstette (DeepMind)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Barbara Hammer (Bielefeld University)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Kristian Kersting (TU Darmstadt)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial College London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Luciano Serafini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Francesca Toni (Imperial College London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Volker Tresp (LMU Munich & Siemens)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Frank van Harmelen (VU Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Geraint Wiggins (Queen Mary, University of London)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Michael Wooldridge (University of Oxford)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Willem Zuidema (University of Amsterdam)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>---<br><br>Tarek R. Besold, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>WWW: <a href="http://www.cat-ai.org/">http://www.cat-ai.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Twitter: @jeublanc<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tarekbesold/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>