ContinualAI Important Updates [23-09-2021]

[Vincenzo Lomonaco]

Dear Continual Learners,

I hope you had a great summer break and you are ready to start this new academic year!  At ContinualAI we have a lot of new exciting ideas for this year to connect the CL community and work better together! I hope you'll help us in this endeavor! For now, let me share a couple of news from ContinualAI:

• First of all, we are soon going to re-start the new season of the Weekly Reading Groups. However, they will be moved to every Thursday at 5.30 CEST and they will be streamed LIVE on YouTube. We hope this will make them even more accessible to anyone even outside the organization. This activity will be re-branded as "Continual Learning Seminars"! 

• The next seminar is going to be on "Continual Learning with Echo State Networks" with @andcos next Thursday! @Keiland will share the invite link soon! Stay tuned!

• Are you interested in Continual Learning for Autonomous Driving? Check out the great competition organized by @mattdl, @Eli Verwimp and colleagues! Baselines based on Avalanche are already available for you to submit your first solution in a matter of minutes! 

• Thanks to @andcos and @Bogdan efforts our collectively maintained papers repository hosted on Zotero and searchable on our web interface is now also available as a plain list on GitHub! Add your paper too simply opening an issue!

• I'm also very excited about the new blog posts we are publishing on our ContinualAI Medium Publication, thanks @Jeremy Forest for leading the effort and @Romain Mouret for your recent story! Ping @Jeremy Forest if you want to publish your next blog post with us! 

• As always, the ContinualAI Lab collaborative team is always looking for contributors to the many open-source projects we have under development. Right now we are looking for motivated people willing to contribute to avalanche and maybe also become lead maintainers?  Send me a PM!
  
  

Best regards,

ContinualAI President
Vincenzo Lomonaco