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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">The early registration deadline for the 2nd U.S Semantic Technologies Symposium is coming up on January 22, 2019! Register early to get
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class=""><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshendler/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">Jim
Hendler</a> (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenadeus/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">Helena
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">The program of the symposium is posted online:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">The detailed program for each session will be published next week.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">You still have a chance to make a contribution by submitting a lightning talk for one of the two plenary Lightning Talk sessions. The
submission for Lightning Talks will be open next week on the <a href="http://us2ts.org/2019/posts/cfp.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 17, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="">US2TS
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">The goal of the U.S. Semantic Technologies Symposium series is to bring together the U.S. Semantic Web community and begin forming such
a research network. We achieve this by supporting communication across disciplinary, organizational, and geographical boundaries. The Symposium events provide a forum by which participants can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research
activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">develop community standards, and advance their science and education through
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<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;" class="">To this end, the 2019 Symposium will be an informal gathering with plenty of time for discussion and breakout sessions. We encourage
anyone with an interest in the Semantic Web, regardless of field, to attend.</span></div>
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