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Agronomic Institute at Chania (M.A.I.Ch.)</em></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Arial"><em>GREECE</em></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="4" face="Arial"><em>5-16 July 1999</em></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr> <td nowrap valign="top"><font size="4"><strong>ACAI-99 Web site:<br> ACAI-99 email:</strong></font></td> <td nowrap><font size="4"><a href="http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99">http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/acai99</a><br> <a href="mailto:acai99@iit.demokritos.gr">acai99@iit.demokritos.gr</a></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><h3 align="center"><a href="Whats_New.htm" target="_self" style="color: rgb(128,0,0); text-decoration: none"><blink>What's new (25/11/1999)</blink></a></h3> <p> </p> <p align="justify">The ECCAI Advanced Course on Artificial Intelligence for 1999 (ACAI-99) is organised by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (ÅÅÔÍ) on a Greek island. The goal of ACAI-99 is to present the current state of the art in Machine Learning, as well as to show the potential of Machine Learning in a variety of problems. Towards this goal, the course is structured as a multimodal event, containing plenary sessions from distinguished lecturers, workshops on machine learning applications, student sessions and panel discussions on the success of ML so far and its future directions.</p> <p align="justify">ACAI-99 will be of benefit to professionals, who are interested in using machine learning techniques, as well as researchers and postgraduate students, who work or are thinking of working in this exciting field.</p> <hr> <h3>Sponsors</h3> <div align="center"><center><table border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.eccai.org/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/ECCAISmall.gif" border="0" width="142" height="40"></a><br> <font size="1">(European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence)</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/skel/eetn/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/EETN.gif" alt="EETN Home Page" border="0" width="204" height="67"></a></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.demokritos.gr" target="_parent"><img src="Images/Demokritos.gif" alt="Demokritos" border="0" width="85" height="71"></a><br> <font size="1">(National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos")</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.cti.gr" target="_parent"><img src="Images/CTI.jpg" alt="CTI" border="0" width="104" height="133"></a><br> <font size="1">(Computer Technology Institute)</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.dolnet.gr" target="_parent"><img src="Images/DOL.gif" border="0" width="142" height="142"></a><br> <font size="1">(Lambrakis Press)</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.gmd.de/ml-archive/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/euro-sterne.gif" alt="MLnet" border="0" width="113" height="52"></a><br> <font size="1">(Machine Learning Network of Excellence)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.hp.com" target="_parent"><img src="Images/HPlogo.gif" border="0" width="140" height="52"></a><br> <font size="1">(Hewlett - Packard Hellas)</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.ypepth.gr/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/ypepthlogo.gif" alt="Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs " border="0" width="143" height="83"></a><br> <font size="1">(Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs )</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/coil/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/COIL.jpg" width="113" height="52" alt="COIL" border="0"></a> <p><font size="1">(Computer Intelligence and Learning Cluster)</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.sun.com/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/sunlogo.gif" alt="sunlogo.gif (1966 bytes)" width="149" height="72"></a><br> <font size="1">(Sun Microsystems - Greece)</font></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"></td> <td valign="middle" align="center" nowrap width="33%"><a href="http://www.tuc.gr/" target="_parent"><img src="Images/tuclogo.gif" alt="Technical Univercity of Crete" border="0" width="100" height="146"></a><br> <font size="1">(Technical Univercity of Crete)</font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div><h3>Acknowledgment for promotion of ACAI '99</h3> <p><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/COLI">Computational Linguistics</a> (MIT Press)</p> <p><a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/NECO">Neural Computation</a> (MIT Press)</td> </tr> </table> </center></div><p align="center"> </p> </body>