Date: December 12, 2017 (2 pm-6 pm; dinner at 6:30 pm)

Location: Banquet Room, Ground Floor, Sheraton Sunnyvale Hotel, 1100 N Mathilda Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

Program

• 2 pm – 2:10 pm, Opening Remarks
• 2:10 pm – 2:35 pm, The Future of AI Research: Will Machines Soon Rule the World? Jianbo Shi, UPenn
• 2:35 pm – 3 pm, Deep Learning: from Theory to Applications, Pierre Baldi, UCI
• 3 pm – 3:15 pm, Coffee Break
• 3:15 pm – 3:40 pm, Semantic technology to enable “open science” and the enhanced management and reuse of experimental datasets, Mark Musen, Stanford
• 3:40 pm – 4:05 pm, Building and Interacting with Domain-Specific Knowledge Bases, Yunyao Li, IBM Almaden
• 4:05 pm – 4:30 pm, Architecture Innovations in AI Era, Yuan Xie, UCSB
• 4:30 pm – 4:55 pm, The social and policy dimensions of AI: A comparative perspective, Hong Shen, CMU
• 5 pm – 6 pm, Panel Discussion
  • The current limitations of AI/DL
  • Views on related technologies and applications: big data, IoT, cloud, health, security, finance, education, industry
  • What are the next big things?
  • The timeline for general AI
  • Impacts, Implications, and Risks of AI
• 6 pm – 6:30 pm, Break
• 6:30 pm, Dinner

Organizing Committee

• Workshop Co-Chair, Dejing Dou, University of Oregon
• Workshop Co-Chair, Xiaolin Andy Li, University of Florida
• Local Arrangement Chair, Kaikai Liu, San Jose State University