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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We are pleased to announce that INNS (the International Neural Network Society) is launching a Virtual Technical Event series that will feature workshops, seminars, tutorials, discussions and so on. These
technical events will occur throughout the year for a worldwide audience. We welcome proposals on challenging and controversial research topics and ones that provide new insights on biological learning. Through this series of virtual technical events, we would
like to serve the growing need for advanced education in a variety of fields that are linked together such as AI, machine learning, neural networks, cognitive science, robotics and so on. Further details on proposal submission are available at
<a href="https://www.inns.org/virtual-technical-events">https://www.inns.org/virtual-technical-events</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">We also welcome proposals from the industry and industry sponsorship of these events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FREE Inaugural Virtual Workshop on Explainable AI on November 6, 2020, Friday, 9 am to 1 pm EST<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This inaugural workshop focuses on Explainable AI (XAI), a topic that is highly important for us to widely deploy our AI/ML systems. We invited five prominent scholars to present their thoughts in this virtual
workshop. Further details are provided below including where to register for the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">WORKSHOP SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444"><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">Stephen Grossberg</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext"><a href="http://sites.bu.edu/steveg/">http://sites.bu.edu/steveg/</a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">Juergen Schmidhuber</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Scientific Director of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.idsia.ch/"><span style="background:white">IDSIA</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/">http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Jeff Krichmar</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma">http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Vladimir Cherkassky</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor of ECE, Univ. of Minnesota,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://ece.umn.edu/directory/cherkassky-vladimir/">https://ece.umn.edu/directory/cherkassky-vladimir/</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;vertical-align:baseline">
<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lee Giles</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor of Information Sciences, Pennsylvania State University,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/">https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MODERATORS</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Asim Roy</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor, Arizona State University (<a href="https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy">https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Daniel Levine</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor, University of Texas at Arlington (<a href="https://www.uta.edu/psychology/people/daniel-levine.php">https://www.uta.edu/psychology/people/daniel-levine.php</a>)
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">FORMAT</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">: Each speaker – 35 minute presentation + 10 mins Q&A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt">REGISTRATION</span></u></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> -
<a href="https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/explainable-ai-xai-virtual-workshop-registration-122938932657">
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/explainable-ai-xai-virtual-workshop-registration-122938932657</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">With regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Irwin King<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">INNS President, FIEEE, FHKIE, DMACM, BoG APNNS & INNS<br>
Chair, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering o +(852) 3943-8398<br>
The Chinese University of Hong Kong f +(852) 2603-5024<br>
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk_irwin.king&d=DwMFaQ&c=l45AxH-kUV29SRQusp9vYR0n1GycN4_2jInuKy6zbqQ&r=d9FCOJpcYDcXPu05rxOEEQFoq0r-F2IaLKJJPc-almk&m=eUgE1_aBcDGN5jLYIo5KXHNieOkP4xdDfYuoMZNDkt4&s=2pA5qdMzEuEcu7ebKHyY_JFJSPCURWEaqU4_jzwFOFQ&e=">http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king</a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Asim Roy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">VP, Industry Relations, INNS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Chair, Committee for Virtual Technical Events, INNS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor, Arizona State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a href="https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy">https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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