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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b> U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium Series </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b> </b> March 11-13, 2019 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"> Duke University in Durham, NC</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b> <a href="http://us2ts.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://us2ts.org/</a> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b> <span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">Early Registration Deadline: January 22, 2019</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">The early registration deadline for the 2nd U.S Semantic Technologies Symposium is coming up on January 22, 2019! Register early to get the best registration rates:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><a href="http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/registration.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/<wbr>registration.html</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">We are also excited to announce two exceptional keynote speakers:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshendler/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Jim Hendler</a> (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenadeus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Helena
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">The program of the symposium is posted online:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><a href="http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/program.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/<wbr>program.html</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">The detailed program for each session will be published next week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">You still have a chance to make a contribution by submitting a lightning talk for one of the two plenary Lightning Talk sessions. The submission for Lightning Talks will be open next week
on the <a href="http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/cfp.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">US2TS Calls</a> webpage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">The goal of the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium series is to bring together the U.S. Semantic Web community and begin forming such a research network. We achieve this by supporting communication
across disciplinary, organizational, and geographical boundaries. The Symposium events provide a forum by which participants can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">develop
community standards, and advance their science and education through communication and the sharing of ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">To this end, the 2019 Symposium will be an informal gathering with plenty of time for discussion and breakout sessions. We encourage anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web, regardless
of field, to attend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">For all questions please contact the organizers at<span> </span><a href="mailto:contact-us2ts2019@googlegroups.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">contact-us2ts2019@<wbr>googlegroups.com</a>.</span></div>
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