Dear LIS Professionals Greetings of Happy New Year for a safe & secure times ahead! LTC 2021 which started with pre-Conclave series of lectures beginning November last year is having two know-how rich pre-Conclave workshops this week on the following themes by two experts in the respective domains. This is an opportunity for LIS profession to get a leg up by learning and upgrading their knowledge as well as skill sets in the emerging technologies. Workshop 1 > 7th January 2021 > 10 AM – 1 PM * AI For eScience > Presented by: Dr. Mandar Mutalikdesai, AI Solutions & Practice Leader, IBM, Bangalore * 10 – 11:15 AM What is AI? - A Primer. · 11:45 AM – 1 PM Efficiency & Ethics: A balancing act with AI AI and Machine learning technologies are already being used to analyse digital collections and identify topics and entities, assign metadata and enable non-textual search and discovery in digital Libraries. This workshop presents an introductory view of Artificial Intelligence with potential applications in eScience. It will briefly introduce concepts of machine learning and neural networks and then look at a few applications of AI in various industries. Workshop 2 > 8th January 2021 > 3 – 6 PM * Semantic Search: The current Frontier of Search Technology > Presented by: Prof. Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Roux Institute for Experiential AI, North Eastern University at Silicon Valley, California, USA * 3 – 4:15 PM Semantic Search * 4:45 – 6 PM Query Analytics Semantic Search lies at the cross roads of information retrieval and natural language processing. This workshop will provide an overview of not only the steps and processing of building a semantically annotated index with the help of a knowledge base, but offers an understanding of the data science needed to use as relevance feedback, the usage log stream of the semantic search engine. These workshops are presented online and are free as part of LTC2021. Please visit LTC2021 site www.LTC2021.org<http://www.LTC2021.org> to register. Once again, our best wishes for a safe and happy New Year! N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman & Managing Director | Informatics India Ltd. | Bangalore 560004 |INDIA | | www.informaticsglobal.com<http://www.informaticsglobal.com> | -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.