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      Dear colleagues,
      <p>*Apologies for cross-postings*</p>
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          Roman"">In its 8th installment, the IEEE SMC
          Brain-Machine Interface Workshop will take place in Miyazaki,
          Japan, from Oct. 7-10, 2018. The theme for this year is
          "Innovations in Systems, (Hu)Man, and Cybernetics, and their
          Interplay as the Driving Forces for Next-Generation BMI
          Systems"<br>
          <br>
          We invite contributions reporting the latest advances,
          innovations, and applications in the field of BMI, including
          affective BMIs, hybrid BMIs, deep learning for BMIs,
          BMI-controlled robots, neurorehabilitation, and BMI for VR/AR
          applications. These and other topics represent both challenges
          to the field and a tremendous opportunity for collaborative
          and multidisciplinary research, involving not only peers with
          expertise in the field of BMI, but also those with expertise
          in systems engineering, human-machine systems, cybernetics,
          neuroscience, medicine, robotics, amongst other disciplines.
          The four-day workshop will feature tutorials, panels, a
          brain-computer interface hackathon (with over $4k in prizes),
          a number of prominent invited speakers, and presentations of
          contributed papers. All presented papers appear on IEEExplore!<br>
          <br>
          More details can be found at: <a
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          Roman"">If you are interested in proposing a Special
          Session, please let me know and we can work together on
          putting one together.<br>
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          Roman"">I look forward to seeing your contributions and
          would appreciate if you could help spread the word! <br>
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      <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Tiago H. Falk
Associate Professor, INRS-EMT
Director, MuSAE Lab
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