<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Dear AI/CS/ECE student</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,0,80)">/</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">scientist/engineer/enthusiast,</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">the Artificial Intelligence and Information Analysis (</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://aiia.csd.auth.gr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AIIA</span></a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">) Lab of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) in cooperation with </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://tema-project.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">TEMA</span></a> </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">R&D project, the International AI Doctoral Academy (</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AIDA</span></a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">), is excited to invite you to register and attend the upcoming short e-course:</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/short-e-course-on-cloud-edge-computing-for-deep-learning-and-big-data-analytics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Cloud/Edge Computing for Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics</span></a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">offered by esteemed lecturers.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This course consists of six lectures, covering some of the most popular tools necessary for distributed systems: Docker, Kubernetes, Orion Context Broker and Apache Airflow. Decentralized DNN applications will also be presented. </span></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"> </p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Host Institution</span></b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">19 March 2024, 08:30 - 18:30 CET</span></b></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Online participation</span></b><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"> via <a href="https://authgr.zoom.us/j/92826225947?pwd=alh2S3YzbTNpNTJKV0I1bDEvSFNrQT09" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="https://authgr.zoom.us/j/92826225947?pwd=alh2S3YzbTNpNTJKV0I1bDEvSFNrQT09" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">ZOOM</a></span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Meeting ID: 928 2622 5947</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Passcode: 405011</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"> </p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Register in advance in this course<b> for free </b>through the above-mentioned short course</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(166,77,121)"> </span><u><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://icarus.csd.auth.gr/short-e-course-on-cloud-edge-computing-for-deep-learning-and-big-data-analytics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">www.page</span></a></span></u><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(166,77,121)">.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Students/Scientists, Engineers from other scientific disciplines having the necessary mathematical background are also welcomed to register.</span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This short e-course is <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">technically sponsored</span></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">by </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://tema-project.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">TEMA</span></a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">, </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://tema-project.eu/projects-cluster" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AI. BIG cluster</span></a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;verti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"color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece</span></p></div>