The thirty-eighth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) will take place in Vancouver, Canada, from Tuesday 10 December to Sunday 15 December. There is a bumper programme of events, including invited talks, orals, posters, tutorials, workshops, and socials, not to mention AIhub's session on science communication. There are seven invited talks this year: Alison Gopnik – The Golem vs. stone soup: Understanding how children learn can help us understand and improve AI Sepp Hochreiter – Toward industrial artificial intelligence Fei-Fei Li – From seeing to doing: Ascending the ladder of visual intelligence Lidong Zhou – A match made in silicon: The co-evolution of systems and AI Arnaud Doucet – From diffusion models to Schrödinger bridges Danica Kragic – Learning for interaction and interaction for learning Rosalind Picard – How to optimize what matters most? We (AIhub) will be running a short course on science communication on Tuesday 10 December. There will be a total of 14 tutorials this year.

We're pleased to announce that we will be giving an introduction to science communication for AI researchers at NeurIPS this year. This will be held on Tuesday 10 December from 14:00. If you are attending the conference and fancy finding out how you can communicate your research to a general audience in different formats, then please do join us. Following an hour-long introductory talk, there will be an optional, open, drop-in session where you can try out some of the things you learnt in the course, ask any sci-comm questions, and chat about your ideas and stories. It helps demystify AI for a broad range of people including policy makers, business leaders, and the public. As a researcher, mastering this skill can not only enhance your communication abilities but also expand your network and increase the visibility and impact of your work.