Recently added articles from AI Magazine:
The information ecology of social media and online communities.
Sep 22, 2008; ... Web-based social media systems such as blogs, wikis, media-sharing sites, and message forums have become an important new way to transmit information, engage in discussions, and form communities on the Internet. Their reach and impact is significant, with tens of millions of people ...
Reports of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia.
Sep 22, 2008; ... The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) was pleased to present the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium Series, held Wednesday through Friday, March 26-28, 2008, at Stanford University, California. The titles of the eight symposia were as follows: * AI Meets ...
AI magazine poster: the AI landscape.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AI's first half-century produced great accomplishments, but many of the field's successes have remained unsung beyond the AI community. AI's integration into the fabric of everyday life has had tremendous impact, but the public may not recognize its many ...
AAAI annual business meeting.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... The annual business meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence will ...
AAAI-08 / IAAI-08.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... We hope you are planning to join us for AAAI-08 and IAAI-08 in Chicago, Illinois, July 13-17, 2008. The AAAI-08 program will feature Eric Horvitz's AAAI presidential address, as well as five outstanding invited talks. The invited speakers include Alexei A. Efros (Carnegie Mellon ...
The Fourth Annual Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-08).(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Please join us for AIIDE-08, to be held October 22-24, 2008 at Stanford University in Stanford, California. AIIDE is the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic and industrial AI researchers. Sponsored by AAAI, the conference ...
Join us for IJCAI-09 in Pasadena, California!(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Please mark your calendars now for the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09) and the Twenty-First Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAl-09)! The conferences will be held July 11-17, at the Pasadena Convention Center ...
Save the date! July 11-15, 2010.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... AAAI comes to Atlanta, Georgia in 2010! The Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) and the Twenty-Second Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence ...
Executive council nominations.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Every two years, the AAAI membership elects an individual to serve a two-year term as President-Elect, followed by two years as President, and, finally, two years as immediate Past President. In addition, every year four new councilors are elected to serve three-year terms on the AAAI ...
2008 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... The 2008 AAAI Fall Symposium Series will be held Friday through Sunday, November 7-9, at the Westin Arlington Gateway, Arlington, Virginia, adjacent to Washington, DC. The titles of the seven symposia are: * Adaptive Agents in Cultural Contexts, Alex Davis, Cochair (Stottler ...
AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium Series.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
Jun 22, 2008 ... The 2009 Spring Symposium Series will be held March 23-25, 2009 at Stanford University. The call for participation will be available in August on the AAAI web site (www.aaai.org/ Symposia/Spring/sss09.php). Submissions will be due to the organizers on October 2, 2008. For more information, ...
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)(Association for Computing Machinery)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... AAAI is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2007 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award. The award is presented annually to an individual whose career contributions display breadth within computer science, or bridge computer science and other disciplines. This year, Leonidas J. Guibas, Professor ...
Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame inducts four robots.(AAAI News: Summer News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... Carnegie Mellon University inducted four robots into the Robot Hall of Fame earlier this spring, and announced the Carnegie Science Center as the new home of the Hall of Fame beginning in spring 2009. The ceremony, featuring actors Anthony Daniels, who played C-3PO in all six Star Wars ...
Barbara Grosz named dean of Radcliffe Institute.(AAAI Member News)
Jun 22, 2008 ... We congratulate Barbara J. Grosz, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences in Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and past president of AAAI, on her appointment as the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Grosz has served as interim dean of the Radcliffe ...
Judea Pearl receives Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.(AAAI Member News)(Brief article)
Jun 22, 2008 ... AAAI Fellow Judea Pearl, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles has been awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for creating the first general algorithms for computing and ...
Congratulations to the 2008 AAAI fellows!(AAAI News)(Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence )
Jun 22, 2008 ... Each year a small number of fellows are recognized for their unusual distinction in the profession and for their sustained contributions to the field for a decade or more. An official dinner and ceremony will be held in their honor during AAAI-08 in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Advancing AI research and applications by learning from what went wrong and why.(Editorial)
Jun 22, 2008; ... I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. (1) --Thomas Alva Edison Insight often begins with unexpected results. In this view, problems are signposts, not roadblocks, which guide us towards better solutions. Bugs, surprises, and anomalies also ...
The Voice of the turtle: whatever happened to AI?
Jun 22, 2008; ... We're now well past 2001; where is HAL? When Marvin Minsky advised Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, 40 years ago, it seemed that achieving a full HAL-like AI by 2001 was every bit as likely as, well, commercial Pan Am flights to the moon by 2001. (1) As Bill Rawley said, the future is ...
Electric Elves: what went wrong and why.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The topic of software personal assistants, particularly for office environments, is of continued and growing research interest (Scerri, Pynadath, and Tambe 2002; Maheswaran et al. 2004; Modi and Veloso 2005; Pynadath and Tambe 2003). (1) The goal is to provide software agent assistants for ...
Beyond the Elves: making intelligent agents intelligent.(Report)
Jun 22, 2008; ... The goal of the Electric Elves project (Chalupsky et al. 2001, 2002) at the University of Southern California (USC) was to develop software agents to support human organizations. The project was quite successful with impressive prototypes and many papers on the research. In fact, DARPA, ...