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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ava Soleimany <asolei@mit.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Introduction to Deep Learning IAP Course (6.S191)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good afternoon, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6.S191 Introduction to Deep Learning is a course we are organizing for this IAP, which may be of interest to the students in your department. We would sincerely appreciate it if you could forward the course registration information and
flyer (both attached below) to your undergraduate and graduate student mailing lists.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you so much!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ava, on behalf of the 6.S191 Team<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">MIT Introduction to Deep Learning (6.S191) will be running this IAP (January 2018). This is a great opportunity for those interested in machine learning and/or in gaining practical experience
implementing deep learning architectures and algorithms. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The class is a combination of content-based lectures on neural networks (basics, different architectures and their applications, new frontiers of deep learning research) and practical labs, which
will guide students through implementing these algorithms in the popular framework Tensorflow.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> The course will conclude with a series of guest lectures, including Aaron Courville (author of the "Deep Learning"
textbook) as well as leading researchers from Google, NVIDIA, IBM, and Tencent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121">Information:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121"> <a href="http://introtodeeplearning.com/" target="_blank">http://introtodeeplearning.com</a> </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121">Dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121"> Monday January 29 - Friday February 2</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121">10:30am - 1:30pm</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121">Location:</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#212121"> 32-123</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">To pre-register:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/prereg_info_iap.html" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/registrar/reg/prereg_info_iap.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">To register after pre-registration closes (Jan 12):</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> Contact us and submit an <a href="https://studentformsandpetitions.mit.edu/sfp/student/myForms.htm" target="_blank">add-drop
form</a> through WEBSIS. Seats are limited so register soon! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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