{"id":11332,"date":"2018-11-23T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=11332"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:41","slug":"symposium-celebrates-30-years-of-artificial-intelligence-at-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/23\/symposium-celebrates-30-years-of-artificial-intelligence-at-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium celebrates 30 years of Artificial Intelligence at Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11335\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11335\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11335\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-e1544670010717.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keynote speaker and U-M alumnus Scott Huffman. (CSE)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Michigan AI Lab\u00a0celebrated 30 years of leading research with its <a href=\"https:\/\/eecs.umich.edu\/eecs\/about\/articles\/2018\/ai-symposium.html\">first AI Symposium<\/a>,\u00a0AI for Society, which took place on November 10. The event welcomed 250 participants from U-M and around the country for a day of presentations, panel discussions, and poster sessions. Presenters gave a broad picture of AI\u2019s applications in the modern world, from finance to health, art to data science.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium, open to the public, aimed to bring together participants from both academia and industry with an interest in the foundations or real-life applications of artificial intelligence. Leading the research talks and panel sessions were several faculty from the lab\u2019s nineteen core members.<\/p>\n<p>The event featured U-M alumnus Scott Huffman (CSE MSE 1990, Ph.D. 1994) as keynote speaker, who spoke about how to build real-world AI products. Huffman is VP of engineering for Google Assistant, Google&#8217;s conversational AI that interactively helps people find answers on speakers, smart displays, smartphones, and vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Michigan AI Lab\u00a0celebrated 30 years of leading research with its first AI Symposium,\u00a0AI for Society, which took place on November 10. The event welcomed 250 participants from U-M and around the country for a day of presentations, panel discussions, and poster sessions. Presenters gave a broad picture of AI\u2019s applications in the modern world, from finance to health,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/23\/symposium-celebrates-30-years-of-artificial-intelligence-at-michigan\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,130,20],"class_list":["post-11332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-ai","tag-research","tag-symposium"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-e1544670010717.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-e1544670010717.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-e1544670010717.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/huffman-e1544670010717.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The\u00a0Michigan AI Lab\u00a0celebrated 30 years of leading research with its first AI Symposium,\u00a0AI for Society, which took place on November 10. The event welcomed 250 participants from U-M and around the country for a day of presentations, panel discussions, and poster sessions. 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