This love - He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

“The Greek construction puts some emphasis on the actuality of the gift: it is not “God loved enough to give,” but “God loved so that he gave.” His love is not a vague, sentimental feeling, but a love that costs. God gave what was most dear to him [His one and only Son].” (NICNT, 203).

God’s love is not picky. It’s not about being good or bad. God sent His one and only Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, to die for the sin of the world so that the world could be forgiven. God does not want anyone to perish for He wants us to be forgiven and to have life with Him now and forever. It doesn’t matter who - every person needs this love. God’s love is not blind. His love sees us just as we are - and every secret that those closest to us don’t even know. God’s love is purposeful beyond our imagination because it is about His story. This love says that we don’t have to wonder and wander through life because this love has the best plan for us. This love wounds our hearts and challenges, “who has your heart?” (Romans 12) because we were designed to worship and to love.

Today, do you know this saving love whose wound brings the eternal healing that we really need? Spend time today in prayer as you consider that God so loved, that He gave his one and only son.

-GK

The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) seeks a part-time Temporary Communications Specialist to promote the Museum’s exhibitions, programs, and events to media and digital audiences from August through December 31, 2017. The position will report to the Senior Director of Communications & Marketing and will collaborate with many other BMA colleagues to produce compelling content for a variety of audiences and platforms.

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The BMA is seeking a Corporate and Foundation Relations Manager who will play an integral role in a fast-paced Development office. The full-time, exempt position, which reports to the Deputy Director for Development, is responsible for directing the corporate and foundation Annual Fund and sponsorship programs. The position also manages the activities of the Board’s Corporate Committee.

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Computer Agents that Interact Proficiently with People

Prof. Sarit Kraus
Deptartment of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University
Ramat-Gan, 52900 Israel

12:00-1:00pm Friday, 4 August 2017, ITE ITE 217B, UMBC

Automated agents that interact proficiently with people can be useful in supporting, training or replacing people in complex tasks. The inclusion of people presents novel problems for the design of automated agents strategies. People do not necessarily adhere to the optimal, monolithic strategies that can be derived analytically. Their behavior is affected by a multitude of social and psychological factors. In this talk I will show how combining machine learning techniques for human modeling, human behavioral models, formal decision-making and game theory approaches enables agents to interact well with people. Applications include intelligent agents that help drivers reduce energy consumption, agents that support rehabilitation, employer-employee negotiation and agents that support a human operator in managing a team of low-cost mobile robots in search and rescue task

Sarit Kraus (Ph.D. Computer Science, Hebrew University, 1989) is a Professor and is the Department Chair of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. Her research is focused on intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (including people and robots). In particular, she studies the development of intelligent agents that can interact proficiently with people. She studies both cooperative and conflicting scenarios. She considers modeling human behavior and predicting their decisions necessary for facing these challenges as well as the development of formal models for the agent’s decision making. She has also contributed to the research on agent optimization, homeland security, adversarial patrolling, social networks and nonmonotonic reasoning.

For her pioneer work she received many prestigious awards. She was awarded the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, the ACM SIGART Agents Research award, the EMET prize and was twice the winner of the IFAAMAS influential paper award. She is an ACM, AAAI and ECCAI fellow and a recipient of the advanced ERC grant. She also received a special commendation from the city of Los Angeles, together with Prof. Tambe, Prof. Ordonez and their USC students, for the creation of the ARMOR security scheduling system. She has published over 350 papers in leading journals and major conferences. She is the author of the book “Strategic Negotiation in Multiagent Environments” (2001) and a co-author of the books “Heterogeneous Active Agents” (2000) and “Principles of Automated Negotiation” (2014). Kraus is a senior associate editor of the Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence Journal and an associate editor of the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems and of JAIR. She is a member of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Multi-agent Systems (IFAAMAS).

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