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REMINDER The second in the series of free 'AI accelerator' events organised by the BCS Women Specialist Group and SGAI, the BCS Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence will be held on Thursday July 20th from 6 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. at the BCS London Office. 6pm: Door Opening 6.30pm: Start and Introduction by Nadia Abouayoub 1h Session run by Professor Max Bramer Q&A and Conclusion: run by Nadia Abouayoub The topic will be 'An *Artificial Intelligence: How did we get here and where are we going?'*, presented by Prof. Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth. Abstract: Professor Bramer joined the small Artificial Intelligence (AI) research community in Britain as a part-time PhD student in the early 1970s, just in time to see the field virtually wiped out in this country following a very hostile report to the main national funding agency. AI techniques have become near-ubiquitous in recent years, often under other names such as Recommendation Systems, Intelligent Robotics, Conversational Agents or Big Data. It is now possible to discuss the idea of a machine possibly becoming intelligent in respectable circles and AI has gone from being dismissed as of no value 40 years ago to being denounced today as a possible threat to the survival of our species. In this talk Professor Bramer will give a personal and highly selective view of the history of this important field and he will look at some of the ways in which AI is now in everyday use and some recent high-level applications, together with the issues of legal liability some of them raise. Finally he will consider some alternative possible AI futures and to what extent the warnings that are now being made about AI by some prominent people are justified. More information and an online registration form is available at http://www.bcs-sgai.org/?section=accelerator2 -- Professor Max Bramer Vice-President, International Federation for Information Processing Emeritus Professor, School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, UK Chair, British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence http://www.maxbramer.org