AI Magazine back issues from September 2003:
AAAI-04 and IAAI-04.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held July 25-29, 2004 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. The Sixteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-04) will be collocated with AAAI-04. Other programs ...
Student Scholar and Volunteer Program.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 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 full-time undergraduate or graduate students at colleges and universities, are members of AAAI, submit papers to the ...
2004 AAAI Fall Symposium Series.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... AAAI recently solicited a call for interest in holding a 2004 Fall Symposium Series. The deadline for preliminary proposals was September 15, and for final proposals October 15, 2004. If the symposia are held, the likely venue for this program will be Washington, DC. All ...
2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series Call for Participation.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... The American Association for Artificial Intelligence presents the 2004 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 22-24, 2004, at Stanford University. The topics of the eight symposia will be: * Accessible Hands-on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics ...
AAAI INTEL ISEF Special Awards.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Now in its fifth year, the AAAI Special Awards program at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) consists of up to twelve awards that recognize outstanding achievement in the area of intelligent computation and robotics. The awards are intended for the best ...
2004 special award nominations.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... AAAI is currently seeking nominations for the 2004 AAAI Classic Paper Award, the AAA/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 ...
AAAI Executive Council nominations.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Every year four new councilors are elected to serve three-year terms on the AAAI Executive Council. All elected councilors are expected to attend at least two council meetings per year, and actively participate in AAAI activities. Nominees must be current members of AAAI. The Nominating ...
AAAI local chapter program.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 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 member list server.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Would you like to receive e-mail notifications of upcoming deadlines and programs? If so, please subscribe to our AAAI ...
Artificial Intelligence Journal online access.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... AAAI is continuing its cooperative effort with AI Journal, giving unlimited access to the online version of the Artificial Intelligence Journal to all regular AAAI members. AAAI regular members can view and browse tables of contents, view articles published in recent issues of AI Journal, ...
AAAI Sponsored Journal Program.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Did you know that your AAAI membership makes you eligible to receive a discount on a the many journals featured in AAAI's Sponsored Journal program? The list of journals continues to expand, which means ...
AAAI member news.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Barbara J. Grosz, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Dean of Science at the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, was elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society (APS) on April 26, 2003. Election to the APS honors extraordinary ...
IJCAI-03 Award for Research Excellence.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at the IJCAI conference to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality, yielding several substantial results. The winner of the 2003 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is Nils Nilsson, Kumagai ...
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.(AAAI News)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by ...
The Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAI Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. In 1993, the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was renamed the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award ...
Independent auditor's report.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003; ... The Board of Directors American Association For Artificial Intelligence Menlo Park, California I have audited the statement of financial position of American Association for Artificial Intelligence as of December 31, 2002 and the related statements of activities, changes in net ...
Notes to financial statements, December 31, 2002.(AAAI News)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies A. Method of Accounting: The financial statements are presented on the accrual basis of accounting. Effective for 1996 the Association has changed its method of accounting for investments from "original cost" to "fair ...
Ontology research.(Guest Editorial)(Editorial)
Sep 22, 2003; ... Ontology is a discipline of philosophy whose name dates back to 1613 and whose practice dates back to Aristotle. It is the science of what is, the kinds and structures of objects, properties, events, processes, and relations in every area of reality. Ontology is, put simply, about ...
Sweetening WordNet with Dolce.
Sep 22, 2003; ... The number of applications where WORDNET (Fellbaum 1998) is being used as an ontology rather than as a mere lexical resource seems to be ever growing. However, WORDNET is only really serviceable as an ontology if some of its lexical links are interpreted according to a referential ...
Where are the semantics in the semantic Web?
Sep 22, 2003; ... The current evolution of the web can be characterized from various perspectives (Jasper and Uschold 2003): Locating resources: The way people find things on the web is evolving from simple free text and keyword search to more sophisticated semantic techniques both for search and ...
WebODE in a nutshell.
Sep 22, 2003; ... In the last decade, several tools for ontology development have appeared: OILED (Bechhofer et al. 2001), ONTOEDIT (Sure et al. 2002), ONTOLINGUA (Farquhar, Fikes, and Rice 1997), ONTOSAURUS (Swartout et al. 1997), PROTEGE-2000 (Noy, Fergerson, and Musen 2000), WEBODE (Corcho et al. 2002), ...
Ontologies for corporate Web applications.
Sep 22, 2003; ... The corporate world is poised to adopt the use of ontologies in web applications. Languages that allow the semantic annotation of information are becoming widely available; examples include the increasingly mainstream XML as well as newer languages such as the RESOURCE DESCRIPTION ...
The Process Specification Language (PSL): theory and applications.
Sep 22, 2003; ... As the use of information technology in manufacturing operations has matured, the need to integrate software applications has become increasingly important. However, interoperability among these manufacturing applications is hindered because the applications use different terminology and ...
The CIDOC conceptual reference module: an ontological approach to semantic interoperability of metadata.
Sep 22, 2003; ... The creation of the World Wide Web has had a profound impact on the ease with which information can be distributed and presented. This ease has spurred an increasing interest from professionals, the general public, and consequently politicians to make publicly available the tremendous ...
A framework for the development of personalized, distributed web-based configuration systems.
Sep 22, 2003; ... Over the last decade, the market's demand for customer-individual, configurable products at a mass-production cost has constantly been increasing, and a mass-customization (Piller and Schaller 2002; Pine II, Victor, and Boynton 1997) business strategy has been adopted in many industrial ...
In search of the Horowitz Factor.
Sep 22, 2003; ... The potential of AI, particularly machine learning and automated discovery, for making substantial discoveries in various branches of science has been convincingly demonstrated in recent years, mainly in the natural sciences ([bio]chemistry, genetics, physics, and so on) (Hunter 1993; King ...
2003 AAAI Spring Symposium Series.(Symposium Reports)
Sep 22, 2003; ... The American Association for Artificial Intelligence, in cooperation with Stanford University's Department of Computer Science, presented the 2003 Spring Symposium Series, Monday through Wednesday, 24-26 March 2003, at Stanford University. The titles of the eight symposia were ...
Calendar of events.(Calendar)
Sep 22, 2003 ... October 2003 OCTOBER 1-3 Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce. Pittsburgh, PA * Contact: Raghu Arunachalam Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science 5000 Forbes Avenue ...
Science series scheduled at westerly library.(AI in the news: "always interesting")
Sep 22, 2003 ... The Westerly Sun. July 7, 2003 (www.thewesterlysun.com). "The Westerly Public Library and The Westerly Hospital are co-sponsoring a video and discussion series from July 15 through Aug. 19, that will encourage participants to investigate scientific ...
Machine vs. man: checkmate.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Steven Levy. Newsweek (available from MSNBC). July 21, 2003 (www.msnbc.com). "There's a scary lesson in these contests between the grandmaster and his soulless opponents. We are sharing our world with another species, one that gets smarter and more independent every year. Though some ...
Computer fear factor in Hollywood.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Julie Moran Alterio. The Journal News. July 4, 2003. (www.thejournalnews.com). "Here's a quick quiz: As technology advances and computers get smarter, is it possible machines could one day take over the world? Pick an answer: *I think it is likely. *It could happen. *No way. If you're like ...
Matrix plugs in to modern anxiety.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Mark Caro. Chicago Tribune. May 18, 2003 (www.chicagotribune.com). "'There is this long history of viewing technology and culture ... with this view that technology eventually will destroy us,' said Dan Sandin, director of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of ...
Rooting for the robot--in the battle between man and machine, which has more soul? Science fiction has disturbing answers.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Reed Johnson. Los Angeles Times. May 25, 2003 (www.calendarlive. com). "Not so long ago, when men were men and machines had cogs, we imagined robots and other mechanical pseudo-humans as our opposites. Now, wired to our home computers, Prozac and Palm Pilots in hand, Botox and breast ...
Science faction.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Fiona Williams. The Sydney Morning Herald. July 5, 2003 (www. smh.com.au). "Set in the not-too-distant future, sci-fi films offer insights into what the world might be like and what impact evolving technologies might have on daily life, says Dean Economou, chief technologist of the CSIRO's ...
The robot won't bite you, dear.(AI in the news: "always interesting")(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Michelle Delio. Wired News. July 15, 2003 (www.wired.com). "Fear and loathing of potentially rabid robots and other supposedly sentient technology is exactly what motivated ArtBots' organizers to host the show, which brought together 23 robots whose talents ranged from creating art to ...