AI Magazine back issues from January 2003:
AAAI fellows nominations solicited.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... The 2004 Fellows Selection Committee is currently accepting nominations for AAAI Fellow. The AAAI Fellows program is designed to recognize people who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence over at least a ten-year period. All regular members ...
2004 special award nominations.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... AAAI is seeking nominations for the 2004 AAAI Classic Paper Award, the AAAI Distinguished Service Award, and the AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award. The 2004 AAAI Classic Paper Award will be given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the Fourth National Conference on ...
AAAI local chapter program.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... AAAI is currently seeking applications from members, who wish to organize chapters in their communities. AAAI chapters should promote an increased knowledge of, and greater interest in, artificial intelligence by professionals in the field; increased communication among persons having an ...
AAAI-04/IAAI-04.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Mark your calendars now for AAAI-04! The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04) will be held July 25-29, 2004, at the San Jose Convention Center in Acapulco, Mexico. The Sixteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence will be ...
AAAI-04 workshop program.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... The following sixteen workshops have been chosen for inclusion in the AAAI-04 Workshop Program. The workshops will be held Sunday and Monday, July 25-26 in San Jose, California. Please consult the AAAI-04 web site for more information regarding schedules and guidelines for participation ....
AAAI-04 Student Scholar and Volunteer Program.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... 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 fulltime undergraduate or graduate students at colleges and universities; are members of AAAI, submit papers to the ...
AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... AAAI and ACM/SIGART invite students to apply for the Ninth AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for a group of Ph.D. students to discuss and explore their research interests and career objectives with a panel of established researchers in ...
2004 Spring Symposium Series.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... The 2004 Spring Symposium Series will be held March 22-24 at Stanford University and will feature eight symposia on the following subjects: * Accessible Hands-On Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Education * Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary ...
2004 Fall Symposium Series.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... AAAI is pleased to announce the return of the Fall Symposium Series! FSS-04 will be held in Washington, DC in late October or early November 2004. The program will feature seven symposia as well as a seminar on funding for AI, to be held the day prior to the symposium series. The seven ...
Member news.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Tom Dean, Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive and Linguistic Science at Brown University, has accepted an appointment as Deputy Provost, for a term beginning September 1, 2003 and concluding June 30, 2006. As Deputy Provost, he will help guide and manage the evolution of the ...
AAAI executive council minutes.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003 ... August 10, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. Attending: Tom Mitchell, Ron Brachman, Marie desJardins, Rich Doyle, Tim Finin, Yolanda Gil, Carla Gomes, Craig Knoblock, Daphne Koller, David Leake, Michael Littman, Alan Mackworth, Reid Simmons, Ted Senator, Dave Waltz, Carol Hamilton, Mike Hamilton ...
IJCAI-03 conference highlights.(AAAI News)
Jan 01, 2003; ... This summer's AI conference in Acapulco offered attendees a wide variety of program choices as well as ample time to catch up with friends and colleagues. For many, scheduling time was probably the biggest challenge because the conference included numerous invited speakers, 189 technical ...
Current topics in qualitative reasoning.(Editorial Introduction)(Editorial)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Qualitative reasoning automates reasoning and problem solving about the physical world around us, a topic that is fundamental to AI. Qualitative reasoning has also generated techniques and systems that enter significant application domains. Successful application areas include autonomous ...
Model-based systems in the automotive industry.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Problems and Requirements in the Automotive Industry The automotive industry was the first to promote the development of applications of model-based systems technology on a broad scale and, as a result, has produced some of the most advanced prototypes and products. Car ...
Qualitative modeling in education.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Modeling is a central skill in scientific reasoning and provides a way of articulating knowledge. Learning to formulate, test, and revise models is a crucial aspect of understanding science and is critical to helping students become active, lifelong learners. Supporting students in ...
Qualitative spatial reasoning: extracting and reasoning with spatial aggregates.
Jan 01, 2003; ... The ability to perceive spatial objects and reason about their relations seems effortless for humans but has proved so difficult for computers that they have yet to attain the capabilities of a five-year-old child. Part of the computational problem lies in the difficulty of identifying and ...
Model-based programming of fault-aware systems.
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Criticality of Fault-Aware Systems The demands we place on robotic explorers and everyday embedded systems have gone through a major transformation over the last decade. For example, the challenge of robotic space exploration has dramatically shifted from simple planetary ...
Qualitative reasoning about population and community ecology.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Why use qualitative representations for ecology? A number of textbooks published recently (for example, Haefner [1996]; Jorgensen and Bendoricchio [2001]) show that ecological modeling is almost synonymous with mathematical model building. These models might be precise and sometimes ...
Mathematical foundations of qualitative reasoning.(Articles)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Modeling Physical Systems Qualitatively The need to represent physical systems by models is common to all scientific and engineering domains. However, the modeling process encounters difficulties from both ends: A model must adapt to the knowledge available and the task it is ...
Learning qualitative models.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Much research in the field of qualitative reasoning has been devoted to the questions of representation of qualitative models and to qualitative simulation algorithms that derive qualitative behaviors from given qualitative models. However, an important practical question is how do we ...
Model-based computing for design and control of reconfigurable systems.
Jan 01, 2003; ... Complex electro-mechanical products are designed as composites of modules controlled by software. Design of these systems involves marketers who try to understand what is needed and would be bought by the market, hardware designers who create new components and combinations that help to ...
The Seventh International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2003).(Conference Report)
Jan 01, 2003; ... Intelligent user interfaces (IUIs) mediate between user and system .to increase the ease and effectiveness of user-system interactions. Research in IUIs draws on areas such as AI and human-computer interaction to study methods for supporting varied users for a wide range of tasks, task ...
The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context.(Conference Report)
Jan 01, 2003; ... The Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference n Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT-03) took place at the Stanford University Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) in Stanford, California, on 23 to 25 June 2003. Previous CONTEXT conferences were held in Rio de ...
McCorduck's Machines Who Think after twenty-five years: revisiting the origins of AI.(Book Review)
Jan 01, 2003; ... * Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospect of Artificial Intelligence, Pamela McCorduck, San Francisco, California, Freeman, 1979, 375 pp., ISBN 0-7167-11135-4. Over the course of the last half-century, a number of books have sought to explain AI to a ...
Calendar of events.(Calendar)
Jan 01, 2003 ... January 2004 JANUARY 6-7 Fourth International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems (CLIMA IV). Fort Lauderdale, FL * Contact: Joao Leite New University of Lisbon Departamento de Informatica ...
Artificial intelligence: past and future.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Hugh McKellar. KMWorld. April 2003 (www.kmworld.com). "Nearly 10 years ago, the Department of Commerce issued a technology assessment of the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) market .... The report estimated the 1993 global AI market--including technologies such as expert systems, neural ...
Fledgling robot industry aims to fly high.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Kim Hyun-chul. The Korea Herald. September 29, 2003 (www.koreaherald.co. kr). "Will the day really come when 'intelligent' robots take over mundane household chores and give people more leisure time? ... There is no definition yet of the intelligent service robot. But according to the ...
Money laundering to fuel $4.8bn bank IT bonanza.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Andy McCue. silicon.com. October 2, 2003 (silicon.com). "Fraud and money laundering regulations and the Basel II accord will drive $4.8bn of investment in new technology by European banks by 2006, according to new research [from analyst Datamonitor] .... Anti-money laundering ...
Brokers will spend big on anti-money laundering.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Jessica Pallay. Wall Street & Technology. May 1, 2003 (www.wallstreet andtech.com). "The brokerage industry will spend almost $700 million in the next three years on antimoney-laundering technologies, according to a recent report by Massachusetts-based consultants, TowerGroup. The 2001 USA ...
Speech industry making minor, steady gains.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Matt Hicks. eWeek News. September 30, 2003 (www.eweek.com). "This year's SpeechTEK comes as analysts predict a rebound in the speech recognition market. Gartner Dataquest predicts that after declining in 2002, the market ...
Smart tools.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Otis Port, with Michael Arndt and John Carey. The BusinessWeek50. March 2003 (www.businessweek.com/bw50). "Some managers still think that artificial intelligence--the decades-long effort to create computer systems with human-like smarts--has been a big flop. But executives at most ...
Educators go high-tech to check essay exams.(AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Jan 01, 2003 ... Rhea R. Borja. USA Today. January 15, 2003 (www.usatoday.com). "[T]he essays were graded by a high-tech artificial-intelligence system--a computer that notes misspellings, assesses sentence structure and reviews writing style. Mr. Chips, meet 'Hal.' ... Across the country, educators are ...