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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><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://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.inns.org/virtual-technical-events__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH24TrgfD$">https://www.inns.org/virtual-technical-events</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">We also welcome proposals from the
industry and industry sponsorship of these events.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><b><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">FREE Inaugural Virtual Workshop on
Explainable AI on November 6, 2020, Friday, 9 am to 1 pm EST</span></u></b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">This inaugural workshop focuses on
Explainable AI (XAI), a topic that is highly important for us to
widely deploy our AI/ML systems. We invited five prominent
scholars to present their thoughts in this virtual workshop.
Further details are provided below including where to register
for the event. <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">WORKSHOP SPEAKERS</span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">Stephen
Grossberg</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444">,
</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;background:white">Wang
Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext"><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/sites.bu.edu/steveg/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH-V_ASqS$">http://sites.bu.edu/steveg/</a></span><span
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<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="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.idsia.ch/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH4YuDoYy$"><span
style="background:white">IDSIA</span></a>,
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/people.idsia.ch/*juergen/__;fg!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH-iJoF11$">http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/</a></span></li>
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<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,
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.socsci.uci.edu/*jkrichma__;fg!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsHykeyBRe$">http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma</a></span></li>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:-.25in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Vladimir Cherkassky</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor of ECE, Univ. of
Minnesota,
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ece.umn.edu/directory/cherkassky-vladimir/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsHxGY1LLP$">https://ece.umn.edu/directory/cherkassky-vladimir/</a></span><span
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style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"></span></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Lee Giles</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor of Information Sciences,
Pennsylvania State University,
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/clgiles.ist.psu.edu/__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH0wngY17$">https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/</a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#444444"> </span>
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</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">MODERATORS</span></u></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Asim Roy</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">, Professor, Arizona State University (<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH1_pfQS-$">https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy</a>)</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://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.uta.edu/psychology/people/daniel-levine.php__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsHxfNIP8q$">https://www.uta.edu/psychology/people/daniel-levine.php</a>)</span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">FORMAT</span></u></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">: Each speaker – 35 minute presentation
+ 10 mins Q&A</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><u><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">REGISTRATION</span></u></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"> -
<a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.eventbrite.hk/e/explainable-ai-xai-virtual-workshop-registration-122938932657__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH7hLGSbG$">https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/explainable-ai-xai-virtual-workshop-registration-122938932657</a></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">With regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Irwin King</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"></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Asim Roy</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">VP, Industry Relations, INNS</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Chair, Committee for Virtual
Technical Events, INNS</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor, Arizona State University</span><br>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><a
href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!Mvb9e7f-jx4nY56X5OgMBh4zbDMpDsob3zF0zWGe-xoIUbCLkU2TU2Hsg1YsH1_pfQS-$">https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy</a><br>
<br>
Danilo Mandic<br>
VP, Public Relationships, INNS<br>
Imperial College London, UK<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic">www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic</a><br>
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