<div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9pt" ><div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:9pt" ><div dir="ltr" ><div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" >Hi All,</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" > </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" >Submission is now open for AAAI Fall Symposium Series.<span> </span><span style="outline: none; font-size: 1.167em;" ><strong style="outline: none;" >Deadline is July 20th.</strong></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" > </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" >Please consider submitting your work to </div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" ><h3 style="outline: none;" ><a name="fs05" rel="noopener" style="outline: none; position: relative; color: rgb(102, 153, 204); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" >GATHERING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NATURAL SYSTEMS</a></h3>
<p style="outline: none;" >Nature provides hundreds of millions of years of R&D by virtue of genetic variation, adaptation and speciation. Technology inspired by nature has the potential to be revolutionary while saving energy, resources and time. Several such inventions already proved the creativity and efficiency of designs inspired by nature. For example, researchers have been able to create antibacterial surfaces inspired by cicada’s wings and gecko’s skin; the shape of the engine of the Shinkansen Bullet train is said to have been inspired by the kingfisher beak. While these examples are exciting, they are not as numerous as they could be. Biomimicry — the art of innovation inspired by nature — happens due to serendipity. We believe that artificial intelligence could help get serendipity out of the loop.</p>
<p style="outline: none;" >The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers from academe, government, and industry to collaborate at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biomimicry.</p>
<h5 style="outline: none;" >Topics</h5>
<p style="outline: none;" >We welcome submissions on topics including (but not limited to) the following:</p>
<ul style="outline: none;" > <li style="outline: none;" >Nature-inspired algorithms for AI</li> <li style="outline: none;" >AI-enabled biomimetic technology</li> <li style="outline: none;" >Data curation and data sets for biomimicry</li> <li style="outline: none;" >Computational creativity for biomimicry</li> <li style="outline: none;" >Ontologies and taxonomies for knowledge transfer between engineering and biology</li> <li style="outline: none;" >Computational tools and methods for biomimicry</li> <li style="outline: none;" >Applications supporting bioinspired design and innovation</li></ul></div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" >For more information:</div>
<div dir="ltr" style="outline: none; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" ><a href="https://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss18symposia.php#fs05" rel="noopener" style="outline: none; position: relative; color: rgb(65, 120, 190);" target="_blank" >https://aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/fss18symposia.php#fs05</a></div></div></div></div><BR>