AI Magazine back issues from September 2002:
Editorial.
Sep 22, 2002; ... This issue marks an important transition for AI Magazine book reviews. After outstanding service as Book Review Editor, B. Chandrasekaran has completed his term. His energetic guidance of the book reviews section brought the magazine a rich set of reviews that were always eagerly ...
2002 AAAI Award winners. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... Bruce Buchanan, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, presented the AAAI Awards recently at AAAI-02 in Edmonton, Canada. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2,500. The 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential ...
AAAI Intel ISEF Special Awards. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).(American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(International Science and Engineering Fair )
Sep 22, 2002 ... Now in its fourth year, the AAAI Special Awards program at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) consists of up to fifteen awards to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of intelligent computation and robotics. The awards are intended for the best ...
IJCAI-03 and IAAI-03. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... The Eighteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held August 9-15, 2003 at the Acapulco Convention Center in Acapulco, Mexico. AAAI is a cosponsor of this conference. There will be no AAAI conference in 2003. The Fifteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of ...
Student Scholar and Volunteer program. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AAAI is pleased to announce the continuation of its Student Scholar and Volunteer programs. The Student Scholar Program provides partial travel support for students who are full-time undergraduate or graduate students at colleges and universities; are members of AAAI; submit papers to the ...
AAAI 2002 Fall Symposia. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... The American Association for Artificial Intelligence's 2002 Fall Symposium Series will be held Friday through Sunday, November 15-17, Sea Crest Conference Center in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. The titles of the five symposia are: * Chance Discovery: The Discovery and ...
Fall Symposium Series for 2003 cancelled. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... We regret to announce that AAAI has decided to suspend the AAAI Fall Symposium Series until such time that the pool of proposals warrants its reinstatement. We hope this will occur very soon! All symposium ...
2002 Spring Symposium Series call for participation. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AAAI presents the 2003 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 24-26, 2003, at Stanford University. The titles of the eight symposia are: * Agent-Mediated Knowledge Management * Computational Synthesis: From Basic Building Blocks to ...
AAAI Executive Council nominations. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... 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 ...
AAAI membership fee increase. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... AAAI will restructure its fee schedule in 2003 for the first time since 1994. The new fees, effective January 1, 2003, will be: * Regular US/Canada $95 * Full time Student US/Canada$35 * Regular International $135 ...
AAAI member news. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Ron Brachman, President-Elect of AAAI, has been appointed as the director of DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO). Brachman will manage the new DARPA Cognitive Information Processing Technology Initiative, which will develop the next generation of computational systems ...
Independent auditor's report. (AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... I have audited the statement of financial position of American Association for Artificial Intelligence as of December 31, 2001, and the related statements of activities, changes in net assets and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the ...
Emendation. (Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence).
Sep 22, 2002 ... The book review by Atocha Aliseda published in the Spring issue (Volume 23 number 1) did not include the author's autobiographical data. We include it below. An updated version of the review (containing this information) is included on the AI Magazine website: <Pre>Atocha ...
AAAI-02 in Edmonton--a scrapbook.
Sep 22, 2002 ... ...
Specifying rules for electronic auctions. (Articles)(Cover Story).
Sep 22, 2002; ... * We examine the design space of auction mechanisms and identify three core activities that structure this space. Formal parameters qualifying the performance of core activities enable precise specification of auction rules. This specification constitutes an auction description language ...
AI and agents: state of the art. (Articles).(artificial intelligence)
Sep 22, 2002; ... * This article is a reflection on agent-based AI. My contention is that AI research should focus on interactive, autonomous systems, that is, agents. Emergent technologies demand so. We see how recent developments in (multi-) agent-oriented research have taken us closer to the original AI ...
Support vector machines and kernel methods: the new generation of learning machines. (Articles).
Sep 22, 2002; ... * Kernel methods, a new generation of learning algorithms, utilize techniques from optimization, statistics, and functional analysis to achieve maximal generality, flexibility, and performance. These algorithms are different from earlier techniques used in machine learning in many ...
AI and music from composition to expressive performance. (Articles).
Sep 22, 2002; ... AI has played a crucial role in the history of computer music almost since its beginning in the fifties. However, until recently, most efforts had been on compositional and improvisational systems, and little efforts had been devoted to performance systems. Furthermore, AI approaches to ...
An AI-based approach to destination control in elevators. (Articles).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Like many other industries, the elevator industry is currently facing two main challenges: First, the continuous pressure to lower construction costs of buildings requires that the core space occupied by an elevator installation be reduced and that transportation performance be ...
The timing of bids in internet auctions: market design, bidder behavior, and artificial agents. (Articles).
Sep 22, 2002; ... Game theorists and market designers focus on the impact of the rules of the game on the behavior of the participants. Participants in internet markets can be human bidders bidding in person or artificial agents used by human bidders. Thus, the performance of market rules depends on what ...
Leveled-commitment: contracting a backtracking instrument for multiagent systems. (Articles).
Sep 22, 2002; ... * In (automated) negotiation systems for self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. They do not accommodate future events. Contingency contracts address this but are often As an alternative, we propose leveled-commitment contracts. The level of commitment is set by ...
Strategic design of mobile agents. (Articles).(artificial intelligence)
Sep 22, 2002; ... The last decade witnessed a phenomenal growth in the number of individuals and firms connected by the internet, which has already fundamentally changed the way many individuals and organizations think about and perform their work. Electronic commerce--the conduct of business activities ...
A review of the Twenty-Second SOAR Workshop.
Sep 22, 2002; ... The work presented at the SOAR workshop illustrated several trends that should be of interest to those outside the SOAR community and some of the issues that SOAR is grappling with that other groups developing unified theories of cognition or AI programming languages might find interesting ...
Calendar of events.
Sep 22, 2002 ... <Pre> September 2002 SEPTEMBER 24-27 Engineering of Intelligent Systems (EIS'2002). Malaga, Spain * Contact:Nicole ElzebroekNAISO Natural andArtificial IntelligenceSystems OrganizationParabool 160Sliedrecht 3364 DH The NetherlandsVoice: 31 ...
Where Lech Does Tech. (AI in the news).(Nobel Peach Prize winner Lech Walesa)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Desa Philadelphia. Time. July 1, 2002 (www.time.com/time). "Leading Poland to democracy brought Lech Walesa a Nobel Peace Prize and international acclaim, but he admits to a few regrets. One is that he was so busy throughout the 1980s and '90s that he `did not have the time to follow ...
Is There a Robot in your Future? (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Siva Kasinathan ("a student this past year in the Manhattan [Kansas] Middle School system"). The Manhattan Mercury. June 21, 2002 (www.themercury.com). "Robot technology is helping humanity branch off into the future. It is the steppingstone for artificial ...
Robot on the Run. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Dave Higgens. The Age. June 20, 2002 (www.theage.com.au). "Scientists running a pioneering experiment with `living robots' which think for themselves today said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it `lives' .... [Noel] Sharkey said: ...
Minority Report. (AI in the news).(crime prevention)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Roger Ebert. Chicago Sun-Times. June 21, 2002 (www.suntimes.com). "The movie turns out to be eerily prescient, using the term ...
Digital Warriors--Artificial Intelligence May Help Spot Future Terrorism Attacks. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Paul Eng. ABC News. May 22, 2002 (abcnews.go.corn). "Norman Geddes, president and CEO of Applied Systems Intelligence, a software maker in Roswell, Ga., thinks artificial intelligence can study terrorist behavior patterns and spot trouble .... Geddes says a well-designed computer program ...
FBI's Most Wanted: New IT Priorities. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... (Commentary). Dan Farber. ZDNet. June 5, 2002 (zdnet.com.com). "On NBC's `Meet the Press' a few days ago, FBI Director Mueller said that `it would be nice if we had the computers in the FBI that were tied into the CIA that you could go ...
DOD Looks Closer at Promising Technologies. (AI in the news).(US Dept. of Defense)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Dawn S. Onley. Government Computer News. June 6, 2002 (www.gcn. com). "Nearly eight months after it released a request to industry for help developing technologies to combat terrorism, the Defense Department will now take the ...
Robot Cameras "will predict crimes before they happen." (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Andrew Johnson. The Independent. April 21, 2002 (news.independent.co.uk). "Scientists at Kingston University in London have developed software able to anticipate if someone is about to mug an old lady or plant a bomb at an airport. It works by examining images coming in from close circuit ...
To Err Is Human. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... George Johnson. The New York Times. July 14, 2002 (www.nytimes.com). "Ordered to climb higher by the electronic voice of the cockpit's automatic collision detector, the pilot of the children's plane obeyed the befuddled ground controller instead. The airliner dove head-on into a ...
Approximating Life. (AI in the news).(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2002 ... Clive Thompson. The New York Times Magazine. July 7, 2002 (www.nytimes.com). "Thousands of people flock to his Web site every day from all over the world to talk to his creation, a robot called Alice. It is the best artificial-intelligence program on the planet, a program so eerily human ...