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The Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) on Thursday, June 18th, 2020 hosted a webinar on Artificial Intelligence: The Potential for Food, Agriculture, and Natural Resources. The two webinars were for agricultural practitioners who want a better conceptual understanding of AI and for information scientists curious about about food and agriculture, where the possible applications for AI are huge.There was a morning and an afternoon session.
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1) Defining Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Foundational Presentation for the Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resources Community:
Morning Session (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT)
- Robin Lougee, Member of the National Academies’ Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources (BANR) and past Chair of the Steering Committee for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Platform for Big Data in Agriculture
2) AI Applications in Agriculture and Natural Resources:
Afternoon Session (1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT)
- SongLin Fei, Ph.D., Professor & University Faculty Scholar, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University
- Maren Wellenreuther, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Aukland University, NZ
- George Kantor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
- Phani Chavali, Bayer Crop Science Analytics and Pipeline Design Team, Glencoe, MS
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