Connectionists: Reminder: Explainable AI, a free Inaugural Workshop by the International Neural Networks, Society, Friday, 6 November, 2020

[Danilo Mandic]

Dear Colleagues,

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 https://www.inns.org/virtual-technical-events 
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We also welcome proposals from the industry and industry sponsorship of 
these events.

*_FREE Inaugural Virtual Workshop on Explainable AI on November 6, 2020, 
Friday, 9 am to 1 pm EST_*

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.

*_WORKSHOP SPEAKERS_*

 1. *Stephen Grossberg*, Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural Systems,
    Boston University, http://sites.bu.edu/steveg/
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 2. *Juergen Schmidhuber*, Scientific Director of IDSIA
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    http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/
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 3. *Jeff Krichmar*, Professor of Cognitive Sciences, University of
    California, Irvine, http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~jkrichma
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 4. *Vladimir Cherkassky*, Professor of ECE, Univ. of Minnesota,
    https://ece.umn.edu/directory/cherkassky-vladimir/
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 5. *Lee Giles*, Professor of Information Sciences, Pennsylvania State
    University, https://clgiles.ist.psu.edu/
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*_MODERATORS_*:

*Asim Roy*, Professor, Arizona State University 
(https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.asim.roy 
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*Daniel Levine*, Professor, University of Texas at Arlington 
(https://www.uta.edu/psychology/people/daniel-levine.php 
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*_FORMAT_*: Each speaker – 35 minute presentation + 10 mins Q&A

*_REGISTRATION_*- 
https://www.eventbrite.hk/e/explainable-ai-xai-virtual-workshop-registration-122938932657 
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With regards,

Irwin King

INNS President, FIEEE, FHKIE, DMACM, BoG APNNS & INNS
Chair, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering  o +(852) 3943-8398
The Chinese University of Hong Kong             f +(852) 2603-5024
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/irwin.king 
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Asim Roy
VP, Industry Relations, INNS
Chair, Committee for Virtual Technical Events, INNS
Professor, Arizona State University
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Danilo Mandic
VP, Public Relationships, INNS
Imperial College London, UK
www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mandic
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