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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Ahhhh. That works!!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Friam [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 10, 2018 4:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: TOMORROW in New York: Talk by the NOBEL PRIZE winner Richard J. Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Let's try it this way:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'>This is happening TOMORROW: please join us for the talk of a Nobel Prize winner Sir Richard J. Roberts at NYU Tandon!</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:purple'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='background:#57068C;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/templates/57/electricalcompeng_header.png" alt="electricalcompeng_header.png"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/newsletters/4165/ai-series-email-header.jpg" alt="AI Seminar Series"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>ECE Seminar Series on Modern Artificial Intelligence:</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><br><strong>The Path to the Nobel Prize</strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:577.5pt;table-layout:auto!important'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><img border=0 width=150 height=146 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/newsletters/4165/richard-roberts.jpg" alt="Richard J. Roberts"></b><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><br><strong>Time & Location:</strong><br></b>Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018<br>11:00am EST<br>370 Jay Street<br>Room 1201 <b><br><br><strong>Contact:</strong><br><strong><a href="mailto:ac5455@nyu.edu"><span style='color:#4285F4'>Anna Choromanska</span></a></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Richard J. Roberts</span></strong><b><br></b>Dr. Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and then moved as a postdoctoral fellow to Harvard.<br><br>From 1972 to 1992, he worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, eventually becoming Assistant Director for Research under Dr. J.D. Watson. He began work on the newly discovered Type II restriction enzymes in 1972 and these enzymes have been a major research theme. Studies of transcription in Adenovirus-2 led to the discovery of split genes and mRNA splicing in 1977, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993. During the sequencing of the Adenovirus-2 genome computational tools became essential and his laboratory pioneered the application of computers in this area. DNA methyltransferases, as components of restriction-modification systems are also of active interest and the first crystal structures for the HhaI methyltransferase led to the discovery of base flipping. Bioinformatic studies of microbial genomes to find new restriction systems are a major research focus as is the elucidation of DNA methyltransferase recognition sequences using SMRT sequencing and a new approach to m5C containing recognition sequences.<br><br><strong>The Path to the Nobel Prize</strong><br>I will briefly describe how I became interested in science and how I almost became a professional billiards player. Following my early interests in chemistry, and my pursuit of a Ph.D. in chemistry I became fascinated with biology and read a book, “The Thread of Life” by John Kendrew that led to my becoming a molecular biologist. I will describe the research that led to the discovery of RNA splicing, which turned out to be a temporary diversion from my real interests in DNA restriction and modification. With a keen interest in sequencing DNA I became heavily involved in using computers and was a pioneer in what is now called bioinformatics. In the RM field many discoveries have been made including, most recently, some exciting findings on bacterial methylomes.<br><br>My career has spanned traditional academic research to more commercially inspired ventures. Since I now work at New England Biolabs, a for-profit company, I will describe its origins, its philosophy towards business and life, and how commercial success can fund innovative research. One theme running through my career has been a lack of respect for dogma and a keen sense of questioning everything that people tell me they already know.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 4:04 PM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Hmm. Outlook provides me with no such opportunity. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>n</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nicholas S. Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clark University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Frank Wimberly [mailto:<a href="mailto:wimberly3@gmail.com" target="_blank">wimberly3@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 10, 2018 12:20 PM<br><b>To:</b> Thompson, Nicholas <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" target="_blank">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: TOMORROW in New York: Talk by the NOBEL PRIZE winner Richard J. Roberts</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I have to click on "Show quoted text".<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 11:39 AM Nick Thompson <<a href="mailto:nickthompson@earthlink.net" target="_blank">nickthompson@earthlink.net</a> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Frank, </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Something about this message felt Spoofish.? For one thing, it appeared to have no content. Is you you?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>n</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nicholas S. Thompson</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clark University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/" target="_blank"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Friam [mailto:<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Frank Wimberly<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 10, 2018 11:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] Fwd: TOMORROW in New York: Talk by the NOBEL PRIZE winner Richard J. Roberts</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-----------------------------------<br>Frank Wimberly<br><br>My memoir:<br><a href="https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly</a><br><br>My scientific publications:<br><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2</a><br><br>Phone (505) 670-9918<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong>Sharon Cavlovich</strong> <<a href="mailto:sharonw@andrew.cmu.edu" target="_blank">sharonw@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>Date: Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 7:26 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: TOMORROW in New York: Talk by the NOBEL PRIZE winner Richard J. Roberts<br>To: <<a href="mailto:ml-seminar@cs.cmu.edu" target="_blank">ml-seminar@cs.cmu.edu</a>><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>This may be of interest to some of you and you can attend remotely!<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>This is happening TOMORROW: please join us for the talk of a Nobel Prize winner Sir Richard J. Roberts at NYU Tandon! <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td style='background:#57068C;padding:11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt 11.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><img border=0 id="m_570914768543281471m_6342178812176213231m_-5031549572355568866_x005f_x0000_i1025" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/templates/57/electricalcompeng_header.png" alt="electricalcompeng_header.png"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><img border=0 id="m_570914768543281471m_6342178812176213231m_-5031549572355568866_x005f_x0000_i1026" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/newsletters/4165/ai-series-email-header.jpg" alt="AI Seminar Series"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr><td style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>ECE </span></strong><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-il"><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Seminar</span></b></span><strong><span style='font-size:18.0pt'> Series on Modern Artificial Intelligence:</span></strong><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><br><strong>The Path to the Nobel Prize</strong></span></b><o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=0 style='width:577.5pt'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><img border=0 width=150 height=146 id="m_570914768543281471m_6342178812176213231m_-5031549572355568866_x005f_x0000_i1027" src="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/admin/temp/newsletters/4165/richard-roberts.jpg" alt="Richard J. Roberts"></b><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b><br><strong>Time & Location:</strong><br></b><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-m2729625684482171590gmail-m-4851848458332656883date-display-single">Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018</span><br><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-m2729625684482171590gmail-m-4851848458332656883date-display-start">11:00am</span><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-m2729625684482171590gmail-m-4851848458332656883date-display-single"> EST</span><br><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-m2729625684482171590gmail-m-4851848458332656883date-display-single">370 Jay Street</span><br><span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-m2729625684482171590gmail-m-4851848458332656883date-display-single">Room 1201 </span><b><br><br><strong>Contact:</strong><br><strong><a href="mailto:ac5455@nyu.edu" target="_blank">Anna Choromanska</a></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p></td><td style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Richard J. Roberts</span></strong><b><br></b>Dr. Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Beverly, Massachusetts. He received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry in 1968 from Sheffield University and then moved as a postdoctoral fellow to Harvard.<br><br>From 1972 to 1992, he worked at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, eventually becoming Assistant Director for Research under Dr. J.D. Watson. He began work on the newly discovered Type II restriction enzymes in 1972 and these enzymes have been a major research theme. Studies of transcription in Adenovirus-2 led to the discovery of split genes and mRNA splicing in 1977, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1993. During the sequencing of the Adenovirus-2 genome computational tools became essential and his laboratory pioneered the application of computers in this area. DNA methyltransferases, as components of restriction-modification systems are also of active interest and the first crystal structures for the HhaI methyltransferase led to the discovery of base flipping. Bioinformatic studies of microbial genomes to find new restriction systems are a major research focus as is the elucidation of DNA methyltransferase recognition sequences using SMRT sequencing and a new approach to m5C containing recognition sequences.<br><br><strong>The Path to the Nobel Prize</strong><br>I will briefly describe how I became interested in science and how I almost became a professional billiards player. Following my early interests in chemistry, and my pursuit of a Ph.D. in chemistry I became fascinated with biology and read a book, “The Thread of Life” by John Kendrew that led to my becoming a molecular biologist. I will describe the research that led to the discovery of RNA splicing, which turned out to be a temporary diversion from my real interests in DNA restriction and modification. With a keen interest in sequencing DNA I became heavily involved in using computers and was a pioneer in what is now called bioinformatics. In the RM field many discoveries have been made including, most recently, some exciting findings on bacterial methylomes.<br><br>My career has spanned traditional academic research to more commercially inspired ventures. Since I now work at New England Biolabs, a for-profit company, I will describe its origins, its philosophy towards business and life, and how commercial success can fund innovative research. One theme running through my career has been a lack of respect for dogma and a keen sense of questioning everything that people tell me they already know.<o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br><em>This event is </em><strong>Free and open to the public. </strong><em><a href="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/link.php?M=1549351&N=4771&L=15596&F=H" target="_blank">Sign up to attend.</a></em></span></i><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/link.php?M=1549351&N=4771&L=13120&F=H" target="_blank"><br></a></span><strong>Tune in via live-stream at: </strong><strong><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="http://emm.engineering.nyu.edu/link.php?M=1549351&N=4771&L=14974&F=H" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>engineering.nyu.edu/modern-ai</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br></span></a></span></strong><br>The <span class="m570914768543281471m6342178812176213231m-5031549572355568866m-7542800674318920517gmail-m-3819014776879121013gmail-il">Seminar</span> Series in Modern Artificial Intelligence begins a new tradition at New York University. The series will be held at NYU Tandon School of Engineering and is hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Organized by Professor Anna Choromanska, the series aims to bring together faculty and students to discuss the most important research trends in the world of AI. The speakers include world-renowned experts whose research is making an immense impact on the development of new machine learning techniques and technologies and helping to build a better, smarter, more-connected world.<o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p>If you are <b><i>not</i></b> a member of the NYU Tandon community and wish to be removed from this mailing list, please email <a href="mailto:engineering.webteam@nyu.edu" target="_blank">engineering.webteam@nyu.edu</a>. <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Anna Choromanska<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Assistant Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>NYU Tandon School of Engineering</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>New York University</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>Room LC266D</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>5 Metrotech Center</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'>New York, NY 11201, USA</span><o:p></o:p></p><p>Office phone: 646.997.0269<o:p></o:p></p><p>ac5455 at nyu dot edu<o:p></o:p></p><p>achoroma at gmail dot com<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;font-stretch:normal'><u><span style='color:blue'><a href="http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/anna-choromanska" target="_blank">http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/anna-choromanska</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;font-stretch:normal'><a href="http://www.columbia.edu/~aec2163/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:9.5pt'>http://cims.nyu.edu/~achoroma</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></body></html>