<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello, </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">As a reminder, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdXpuOmDlpV79nmWMwLxKtFrFygLqSOBAmDH3O4q98-5ptTKw/viewform">registration</a> is currently open for the <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/multimodal-ai-ttic-2024/home" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">TTIC Summer Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence</span></a>. The registration deadline has been extended to Tuesday, July 30th. Please find more details below. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you,</div><div dir="ltr">Alicia</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif"><b>Alicia McClarin </b><font size="1">(she/her)</font></font></div><div><b><font color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif"><i>Senior Events & Projects Manager</i></font></b></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:georgia,serif">Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif">6045 S. Kenwood Ave.</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font face="georgia, serif">Chicago, IL 60637</font></span></div></div><div><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank"><font color="#0b5394" face="georgia, serif">www.ttic.edu</font></a><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 16, 2024 at 4:20 PM Alicia McClarin <<a href="mailto:amcclarin@ttic.edu" target="_blank">amcclarin@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_8687583970770672829m_8023609582398719919gmail-docs-internal-guid-614436cb-7fff-418b-fe2c-9a7bb0771422"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hello everyone, </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We are excited to invite you to the two-day event dedicated to exploring every facet of multimodal AI, a field gaining significant traction by integrating diverse information streams like language, images, audio, and robotics. Notable recent examples include OpenAI Sora/GPT-4V/o, Google Gemini, and Apple MM1, etc. as well as open-source model developments such as LLaVa. We aim to bring researchers and practitioners at various stages together to exchange insights, discuss recent advancements and future trends, and encourage interactions and collaborations across disciplines such as natural language processing, computer vision, speech processing, and robotics.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/multimodal-ai-ttic-2024/home" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">TTIC Summer Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence</span></a>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dates:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Aug 7 - Aug 8, 2024</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Location:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><a href="https://www.ttic.edu/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">TTIC</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, Chicago</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Registration:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Simply register </span><a href="https://forms.gle/CSh1C2C9fhtAQgvu9" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> by July 26. Registration is free to the community, but we encourage you to sign up early for our planning of food and space, etc.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Call for Poster Presentations:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> We invite published work or work in progress for poster (or potential short oral) presentations. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your work, share insights, and foster collaborations in the interaction of language, vision, speech, robotics, etc. We welcome all topics in any of the areas. Please consider submitting the abstract of your work </span><a href="https://openreview.net/group?id=TTIC.edu/2024/Workshop/Multimodal_AI" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">here</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> by July 24 to be considered for presentations.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">=========================</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;marg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