[open-science] Call for Papers - Future Technologies Conference 2017 - 29-30 Nov - Vancouver, Canada

[Supriya Kapoor]

Dear Colleague,

We'd like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for
the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2017 to be held from
*29-30 November 2017* in *Vancouver, BC, Canada*.

FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top
companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around
the world in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security &
Communications. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC
members or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into
account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic
impact, and presentation.

*Early Bird Submission (Opportunity to save $100)*
Paper Submission Due : 1 March 2017
Acceptance Notification : 1 April 2017
Author Registration : 1 May 2017
Camera Ready Submission : 1 June 2017

*Regular Submission*
Paper Submission Due : 1 April 2017
Acceptance Notification : 1 May 2017
Author Registration : 1 June 2017
Camera Ready Submission : 1 July 2017

Complete details are available on the conference website :
http://saiconference.com/FTC2017

*Previous Edition (2016):* Three hundred of some of the world’s top minds
in technology and computing convened in San Francisco at the first Future
Technologies Conference (FTC) 2016. The conference showcased deliberations
from reputed researchers and technology leaders including a keynote by
Laura Haas, an *IBM Fellow and Director of IBM Research's Accelerated
Discovery Lab*. Proceedings were published in IEEE Xplore.

Other speakers included James Loudermilk - Senior Level Technologist
at the *Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) *Science and Technology Branch, Ruzena
Bajcsy, Professor at the *University of California, Berkeley*, Ella Atkins
Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the *University of Michigan*, Bin He
- Director of Institute for Engineering in Medicine, *University of
Minnesota*. Watch the keynote presentations and interviews from 2016
<https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS161HmXR6Jj4SaA2khqCzBrTgFdoTBAr>

All FTC 2017 presented papers will be published in the conference
proceedings and submitted for indexing to Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar
and more.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to interested colleagues.

Regards,
Professor Kohei Arai
Program Chair
Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2017
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