<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks to those who responded to my email.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you haven’t, could you please give me an idea of your availability. I’m planning to hold a meeting mid-June.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gopal</div><div class=""><br class="">
<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 21 May 2018, at 17:20, Sarvapali Ramchurn <<a href="mailto:cmihog@soton.ac.uk" class="">cmihog@soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Dear members of the CMI steering committee</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">It’s been a busy four months since we started the Centre for Machine Intelligence. During that time we’ve organised a number of events and engaged in a number of community building initiatives. These include:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><ol class=""><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Setting up of the CMI website: <a href="http://www.cmi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/" class="">www.cmi.ecs.soton.ac.uk</a></li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Launch event on AI and Blockchain: over 100 attendees, with £700 sponsorship by Oxford Innovation. Half the attendees were from Industry as well as half the speakers.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">PhD evening event on AI and MAchine Learning: over 30 attendees with many follow up meetings and resulting Phd applications by UK/Eu students.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Evening on AI and Ethics: three guest speakers from Ordnance Survey, Dundee University, and MoD. Over 60 attendees.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Evening on Robots and their use in Warfare: over 80 attendees (with 140 signed up), mostly from across the university. Speakers included Prof. Enemark (International Relations) and Dr. Rauxloh (Law), and Dr. Munafo (NOC).</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Proposal for joint GDPs with FEE: this is being actively pushed by the Dean and Prof. Scanlan from FEE.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Proposal for modifications to AI and Computer Science UG/PGT courses: to be discussed soon at the Education committee (led by JSH2)</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Received £15K from the Faculty to support our activities.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">CMI Promotional Video produced by an ex BBC producer (see link here: <a href="https://vimeo.com/user2051960/review/267428993/7d4c0d68b1" class=""><span class="" style="color: rgb(228, 175, 10);">https://vimeo.com/user2051960/review/267428993/7d4c0d68b1</span></a>, password: ims). </li></ol><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">We now need your help and advice on the following:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><ol class=""><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Feedback (however minimal) on the video.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Ideas on the following:</li><ol class=""><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">We are proposing to organise a showcase event on AI and Machine Learning at the end of September. The plan is to have our best work promoted through lectures, poster session, demos, over the course of a day in Garden Court.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">We are proposing to develop a membership programme that will charge Industry actors for access to our students and researchers (e.g., 1 or two speaking spots during our events to promote their internships or job opportunities or to advertise positions on the CMI website).</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">We are proposing to organise a sandpit event that will tap into existing projects’ funding to develop new cross-cutting ideas from different faculties and departments (e.g., health, law, engineering, etc..) to generate closer collaborations across research groups going beyond the faculty and spark off new grant applications.</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Collect all AI and Machine Learning/Robotics relevant project descriptions under the CMI website or newsletter and to do so in a sustainable way.</li></ol></ol><div class=""><font color="#454545" face="Helvetica Neue" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">It would also be great if you could let me know if you have any availability over the coming weeks (w/c 21st or 28th or even later) for a meeting with all of you of no more than an hour to get everyone's views and for you to meet our board. I’ll then send a doodle that covers your availability.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Kind regards,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69); min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; color: rgb(69, 69, 69);">Gopal</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">—<br class="">Dr. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn<br class="">Associate Professor<br class="">Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence,<br class="">Electronics and Computer Science,<br class="">University of Southampton, UK.<br class="">t: +44 (0) 2380599309<br class="">w: <a href="http://www.sramchurn.com/" class="">http://www.sramchurn.com</a><br class="">l: Rm 4021, B32, University Road, Southampton.</div>
</div>
<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>