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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" class="">Julia C Keller <<a href="mailto:jckeller@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">jckeller@mit.edu</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, November 9, 2018 at 9:12 AM<br class="">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-style: normal;" class="">Please share this call for posters with your relevant undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. Headlines and 100-word
abstracts are due on Sunday.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-style: normal;" class="">Cheers,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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Julia C. Keller<br class="">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 17.600000381469727px;" class=""> </span><b class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">From:</span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"> MIT Quest for Intelligence </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, November 08, 2018 7:26 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fern D Keniston <<a href="mailto:fernd@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">fernd@mit.edu</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>MIT Quest for Intelligence <<a href="mailto:quest@mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">quest@mit.edu</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CALL FOR POSTERS! Deadline Nov. 11. Quest Symposium on Robust, Interpretable AI, Tues. Nov. 20</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 38.400001525878906px; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">Quest Symposium on Robust, Interpretable Deep Learning Systems</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">To advance further, deep learning systems need to become more transparent. They will have to prove they are reliable, can withstand malicious attacks, and explain the reasoning behind their
decisions, especially in safety-critical applications like self-driving cars.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">We invite MIT undergraduates, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to submit current research abstracts to the</span><u class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" class=""><a href="https://ridl.csail.mit.edu/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" class="">Quest
Symposium on Robust, Interpretable Deep Learning Systems</span></a></span></b></span></span></u><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">to be held on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class=""><u class="">Nov. 20, 2018</u></b>.
We welcome submissions on attack and defense methods for deep neural networks, visualizations, interpretable modeling, and other methods for revealing deep network behavior, structure, sensitivities, and biases.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">The event will feature faculty talks, an afternoon poster session and refreshments.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 28.799999237060547px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Call for Posters<br class="">
</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">Please submit a headline and 100-word abstract.<br class="">
Deadline: <b class="">Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018</b><br class="">
Submission link: </span><b class=""><u class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-style: normal;" class=""><a href="http://ridl.csail.mit.edu/submit" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" class="">ridl.csail.mit.edu/submit</span></a></span></u></b><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<b class=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 28.799999237060547px; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Schedule</span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class="">
</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">When: <b class="">Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 20, 2018<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><br class="">
Where: <b class="">Building 46 Atrium and Singleton Auditorium<br class="">
</b>Speakers and poster sessions, TBD. Refreshments will be served.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Shibani Santurkar, Aleksander Madry, Antonio Torralba, Fern Keniston</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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<b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class="">Website:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-style: normal;" class=""><a href="mailto:ridl.csail.mit.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" class="">ridl.csail.mit.edu</span></a></span></b><b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal;" class=""><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Questions: </span></b><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""><span style="font-family: Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); font-style: normal;" class=""><a href="mailto:ridl@csail.mit.edu" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 176, 80);" class="">ridl@csail.mit.edu</span></a></span></b></span></p>
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