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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EL link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Dear AI professional, student, enthusiast,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>AI Science and Engineering </span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>is un upcoming scientific discipline that can fuse AI, brain and mind studies and social engineering in a new scientific discipline. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>It has huge impact on both our society and environment. The new book <b>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society”</b> consists of four volumes (parts) debating <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>all technical and social grand challenges of AI Science and Engineering in an understandable and scientifically accurate manner. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>They are published in Amazon/Kindle.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The first volume <b>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part A: Introduction to AI Science and Information Technology“ <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860">https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156460?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</a></span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>overviews the entire new domain of <b>AI Science/Engineering and Information Technology (IT)</b>. It presents various hot AI and IT disciplines, e.g., <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Deep Learning, Symbolic AI, Signals and Systems, Computer Vision, Robotics and Autonomy, Networks and Social media, Security and Blockchain (partial list). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>It requires no mathematical/scientific background. Yet it is scientifically precise and clarifies many misunderstandings and wrong concepts that can be routinely found in the related literature. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Here is just an indicative list of few of the debated topics and grand AI challenges:<o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Is AI Science and Technology a scientific discipline in its own right?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>What is the difference between data, information, and knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How can we quantify knowledge?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>What is the relation of Machine learning, AI and metadata, semantics and concepts?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Can Virtual Reality truly empower meta-societies or is it just a hype? <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Can AI-powered human-centred computing surpass human intelligence?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Why swarm intelligence is so powerful?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How networks analytics and epidemiology explain the propagation of ideas in social media?<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>How can we protect digital documents from tampering?<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Part A Table of contents (276 pages)</span></b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>: Data</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Signals</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Systems</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Mathematics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Acquisition, Processing and Analysis</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Storage and Search</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computer Vision</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Data Visualization</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computer Graphics and Animation</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Virtual and Augmented Reality</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Audio, Speech, and Text Analysis</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Machine Learning. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Pattern Recognition</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Deep Learning</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Information</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Metadata, Semantics, Concepts</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Symbolic Artificial Intelligence</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Knowledge</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Anthropocentric Computing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Robotics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Autonomy</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Networks and the Internet</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The World Wide Web</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Social Media</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Network analytics</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Swarm Intelligence</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Software</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Computing</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Communications</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Security</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>, </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Blockchain</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Part A provides the scientific background to understand the other three book parts: </span><span lang=EN-GB> </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>AI Science, brain, mind, and humans (Part B), AI and its impact on society, including AI Ethics (Part C) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>and the impact of AI and Information Science on the environment (Part D). <o:p></o:p></span></p><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=disc><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part B: AI Science, Mind and Humans“ (276 pages) </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156479?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a></span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part C: AI Science and Society“ (335 pages) </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156487?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a></span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>“Artificial Intelligence Science and Society Part D: AI Science and the Environment“ (177 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></b></li><ul style='margin-top:0in' type=circle><li class=MsoListParagraphCxSpLast style='margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;text-align:justify;mso-list:l3 level2 lfo6'><b><span lang=EN-US><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>https://www.amazon.com/dp/9609156495?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860</span></a></span></b><b><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Barlow Light"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></li></ul></ul><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>The four book volumes debate and try to forecast the future of AI Science and Engineering, as well as the upcoming Mind and Social Science and Engineering.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>About the author: This book is a result of a two-year effort by <b>Prof. Ioannis. Pitas (IEEE fellow, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP fellow)</b> and was influenced by his being <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>principal investigator of 75+ R&D projects on Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Digital Media and chairing the International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Prof. I. Pitas is Director of the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (AIIA) lab at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>He was chair and initiator of the IEEE Autonomous Systems Initiative (ASI). He has (co-)authored 15 books, 45 book chapters and over 950 papers in the above topics. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>He has 34500+ citations to his work and h-index 87+. He is ranked 319 worldwide and first in Greece in the field of Computer Science (2022).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Barlow Light"'>Prof. Ioannis. Pitas<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>