[UAI] Second Call for the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest on Artificial Intelligence Technologies

2018-12-01 Thread Nicholas Mattei
[Apologies for Multiple Postings]

All,

This is the second call to announce the  2018 version of the ACM SIGAI
Essay Contest on on Artificial Intelligence Technologies!  You might think
about submitting your ideas to this opportunity!

Deadline: Jan 10, 2019.

Students are invited to write an essay discussing this year's topics for
consideration for prizes and publication in the ACM SIGAI Newsletter!
Please see the blog post or PDF call for full details.

Blog Post:
http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/2018/09/22/2018-acm-sigai-student-essay-contest-on-artificial-intelligence-technologies/

PDF Call:
https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/SIGAIEssay2018.pdf

Win one of several $500 prizes or a Skype conversation with a leading AI
researcher including Joanna Bryson, Murray Campbell, Eric Horvitz, Peter
Norvig, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, or Toby Walsh.  All winning entries
will be published in the SIGAI Newsletter archived in the ACM Digital
Library.

Thanks!
--Nick

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[UAI] Call for Participation: NeurIPS Expo Workshop on Common Model Infrastructure, Dec 2 8:00-12:30 at Room 511a

2018-12-01 Thread Huan,Jun
Dear Colleagues:
The rapidly increasing use of machine learning, data mining, and data analytics 
techniques across a broad range of applications provides opportunities for 
automated model construction, sharing and reuse of models, algorithms, and 
code, to help increase speed to solution and reduce duplication of effort. We 
are pleased to invite everyone to participate in the first NeurIPS Expo 
workshop decimated to the topic of common model infrastructure. The featured 
speakers are from Google, Microsoft, Baidu and XPrize with presentations, panel 
discussions, and life system demonstration.
Everyone is invited. The schedule for the workshop is listed below:
Schedule for the NIPS Expo Workshop: Common Model Infrastructure
8:00 am - 12:30 pm, Room 511a

8:00-8:05 Open Marks Luke Huan (Baidu)
8:05-8:35  Quentin de Laroussilhe (Google)
8:35- 9:05 Olivier Martin (Microsoft)
9:05- 9:35 Yanjun Ma (Baidu)
9:35-10:00 Luke Huan (Baidu)
10:00-10:30 Break
10:30 – 11:00 Amir Banifatemi (XPrize)
11:00-11:30 Panel Discussion with all Speakers
11:30-12:30 Life demonstration
EasyDL (Baidu)

Further Details regarding the schedule:
https://nips.cc/Conferences/2018/ExpoSchedule
https://nips.cc/Expo/Conferences/2018/Schedule?workshop_id=4
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Jun (Luke) Huan, Ph.D.
Head, Baidu Big Data Lab
Baidu Research
Tel: +86-10-56795216 (China)
Tel: +1-785-550-3189 (USA)
Web: http://research.baidu.com/People/index-view?id=112
Email: huan...@baidu.com









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