 Good afternoon, everyone. Next to me is Professor Emile Aerts. I'm not going to introduce him because he's somewhat of a legend here. I'm going to use the time instead to ask him a few questions. So Emile, the first question is, what is TAISIG and why are these talks called TAISIG talks? Oh, thank you very much, Mary. The acronym TAISIG stands for Tilburg University Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group. And that is a very long sentence almost, so we abbreviated it to TAISIG. It's there now for one and a half year, and it is set up within the community of the university to combine all our activities in the domain of artificial intelligence. And the reason to do that is that obviously artificial intelligence is going to become a very important element within our research, within education, within the impact that we as a university will generate within society. And so this calls for action and TAISIG is the answer to it. Thank you. So what about the TAISIG talks? What is the idea behind the TAISIG talks? The first part of TAISIG as an objective is to build a scientific community of practice. And we are all, let's say, scientific practitioners in a way. We love to speak about our research. We love to learn from others. So the best way to do this is to set up a series, a lecture series, and that is called the TAISIG talks. And we all know the format because the public and the audience has already attended a few items before, at least that's what we hope. But again, the formula is simple. We have one hour, as Miriam explained, and there are three contributions of persons that speak about their scientific work. So you talked about forming a community. Sometimes we hear from students at Tilburg University that they would also like to participate somehow in TAISIG, particularly if they're interested in artificial intelligence from either legal perspective, societal perspective, or maybe a technical perspective. What can we do for our students? How can they participate? And what we have done, because we indeed have seen that this is an important unmet need of the students. So both the students at master level, bachelor level on the one hand side, but even the PhD students who are in a different stage of their personal development, we have set up a kind of collaboration with them, and we have invited them to join the TAISIG talks board. So as of, let's say this autumn, we will program the TAISIG talks jointly, and then we hope to see back in the beginning of 2022 the influence of the students and the PG students on the program of the TAISIG talks. Okay, thank you. So for everyone in the audience, please spread the word about the involvement of students starting this semester. Now I know that for the past couple of months, the TAISIG steering group has been working on a document called TAISIG manifest. Can you tell us something about this document? Yes. Another way of positioning TAISIG is that we are a kind of movement. So a community with a certain view on what artificial intelligence means to them and how they would like to advocate it and communicate it with the external world. And well, as is already a tradition for a very long time, movements produce their manifesto. So this TAISIG manifesto is a means to write up a classical channel, you could say, but we have chosen deliberately for that to, let's say, tell the community what we think for the time being is the positioning of the work of artificial intelligence within our Tilburg University community for two reasons to have a joint view on what this positioning is. And secondly, to communicate it with the outside world, so the world outside Tilburg University, because a lot is happening there. And the first thing, the first question that we are confronted with whenever we engage with the external world is the question, what the hell is Tilburg University doing in the domain of artificial intelligence? Well, then we first hand over the manifesto and then we start a talk about what we are from a personal perspective, and that is different for every other practitioner. The title manifesto somehow suggests that there is an innovative aspect in the program. What do you think is innovative in the approach that Tilburg University researchers take towards artificial intelligence? I don't know if it is so much innovative, that it is a unique selling point or something like that, but it is in the heart of our profile, and that suffices to make your point to the external world. And an important element of our positioning is that it is a truly interdisciplinary approach, so not multidisciplinary, but interdisciplinary, so we view it as a new way of conducting scientific research and the corresponding education, of course. And what is then new is that the elements of the methods and the algorithms and the data as well as the ethical, legal and societal aspects are integrated into one view, and that's what we then apply in the applications that we work on in the domain of artificial intelligence. Thank you. Then I have one more question because I know that you're involved in many national initiatives on artificial intelligence, you sit in a lot of committees so you can actually observe what's happening in the Netherlands as a whole. How does Tilburg University fit into these developments and what are these developments? In the sequence that you asked the question, we perfectly fit in, but to judge that on its true merits, maybe a few words on what it is. So, almost two years ago, the government in the Netherlands launched a platform that they call the Dutch AI coalition, basically for the simple reason to let's say get our act together within the Netherlands to be able to let's say work together in the European and also the global frameworks of work in artificial intelligence. So the good news is that this coalition has developed its own, let's say governance and its views. And I would like to recall at this point in time, again, a Tijsig activity in event that we had in July this year, where Inno Larendijk, who is one of the persons who is in the steering board of this community that is at the national level, presented to us the views of the Dutch coalition. So what is important for Tilburg is that there are a number of instruments under development and also the funding of those instruments has been realized already from the perspective of the Dutch National Growth Fund. And the good news is that earlier this summer, there was a first call announced by NWO with an amount of money ranging between 10 and 15 million euros to set up ELSA labs, and also Tilburg University is very strongly involved. And I know that there are several applications and four of those contain also contributions from Tilburg University. And there is even one submission from the Zero Hunger Lab that is featured today. Not by accident, but by design I would be inclined to say, and they are the first applicant even. So we are doing quite well, but we have to wait until November of this year before we will learn the outcome of the submission and application process. And the good news is that even if in this first call, the initiative for Tilburg University would not succeed. There are two additional calls that are programmed for next year with the same amount of money. We are working even on two additional calls, which means then that by the end of 2023, there will be some 60, so 60 million euros spent in the Netherlands on building up a network of ELSA labs. Okay, fantastic opportunities for researchers. That's what we tend to believe, Marie. And that's about something a little bit different. And so Tilburg University has as a slogan, understanding society. I heard an anecdote about you that at some point it was your intention to change this into another slogan, namely advancing society. Yes, is that correct. That's correct. Why does that not happen. Well, you know, mathematicians always look at the world in terms of limit cases. So the limit case that occurred to me was the one where someone would or we as a university would be for 100% successful in understanding society. We would know it all, but we would fail to turn this into action. And that I couldn't grasp. So we then, more or less, but it was not an intention we even tried Marie to change it. And we had some fierce discussions with some people at the university and the impact program even launched a notion advancing society for that matter. And it's interesting that you mentioned it because every now and then there is a scientist who approaches me, and then he tells me this idea about advancing society. I live by it, even after you are gone as a recta. And that's that. Well, that makes me feel good. Thank you.