<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Colleagues,</div><div><br></div><div>We at CBI are delighted to announce this free virtual lecture of CBI Tomash Fellow Aaron Mendon-Plasek (ABD, History, Columbia University). We very much hope you will join us for this CBI event on May 5th (1-2 pm Central; 2-3 E; 11-noon P). Registration is required and will close several days prior to the event day (please register now/soon).</div><div><br></div><div>Best, Jeff</div><div><br></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td align="center" valign="top" id="gmail-m_-1034903057532231229gmail-m_4710570291055801308m_-1059754408193636952m_8642994993662286218templateHeader" style="background-image:none;background-position:50% 50%;background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:45px;padding-bottom:45px"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:600px"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="background:none 50% 50%/cover no-repeat rgb(247,247,247);border-top:0px;border-bottom:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px"><table align="left" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding:0px;text-align:center"><a href="http://umn.edu/" title="" target="_blank"><img align="center" alt="" src="https://mcusercontent.com/ac86934aa6cefdac2c4dcaa2e/images/b92b6d1b-53d9-462e-88b0-1cb0d3010615.jpg" width="600" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="max-width: 797px; 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However, as Newell observed retrospectively in 1983, by 1955 machine learning researchers had already splintered off from what "became the AI community.” If early machine learning wasn’t artificial intelligence, what was it? This talk provides an answer. (Full abstract is on the event page on the CBI Website.)</span></span></span><br> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="min-width:100%;border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:9px 18px"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border:10px double rgb(255,210,73);border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font-family:Helvetica;padding:18px;color:rgb(242,242,242);font-size:14px;text-align:center;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px"><div style="text-align:left"><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:18px">Bio</strong><br><br><font color="#000000" face="verdana, geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">Aaron Mendon-Plasek is a historian of science and U.S. history and a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. 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