AI Magazine back issues from September 2005:
Congratulations to the 2005 AAAI Award winners!(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Sep 22, 2005 ... Tom Mitchell, AAAI past president and Awards Committee chair, and Ron Brachman, AAAI president, presented the AAAI awards in July at AAAI-05 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Award winners received a certificate and a check for $1,000. Classic Paper Award The 2005 AAAI ...
AAAI, Intel, ISEF Special Awards.(American Association for Artificial Intelligence's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair )
Sep 22, 2005 ... Now in its seventh year, the AAAI Special Awards program at the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) consists of up to ten awards to recognize outstanding achievement in the area of intelligent computation and robotics. The awards are intended for the best ...
AAAI Executive Council nominations.(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005 ... 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 ...
Celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dartmouth Conference!(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Sep 22, 2005 ... The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) will be held July 16-20, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Eighteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI06) will be collocated with AAAI. The AAAI-06 and IAAI-06 calls for ...
Save the Date for AIIDE-06!(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005 ... Following the success of the first event this past June, the Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment will be held in Marina del Rey, California, June 13-16, 2006. AIIDE is the definitive point of interaction between interactive entertainment ...
Fall Symposium Series registration.(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Sep 22, 2005 ... The American Association for Artificial Intelligence's 2005 Fall Symposium Series will be held Friday through Sunday, November 4-6, Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington Virginia, adjacent to Washington, DC. The symposium series will be preceded on Thursday, November 3, by a one-day AI ...
Spring Symposium Series call for participation.(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
Sep 22, 2005 ... AAAI presents the 2006 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, to be held Monday through Wednesday, March 27-29, 2006, at Stanford University. The titles of the eight symposia are: * Argumentation for Consumers of Healthcare * Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Cognitive Science ...
AAAI member news.(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(Robert William Milne)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
Sep 22, 2005 ... AAAI notes with deep regret the death on June 5, 2005 of Rob Milne, long-time member of AAAI and AI Magazine editorial board member. Milne died while climbing Mount Everest. Robert William Milne was born in Libby, Montana, in 1956. He received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering ...
Executive Council meeting minutes.(AAAI News: Fall News from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence)(Transcript)
Sep 22, 2005 ... March 20, 2005, Palo Alto, California Attending: Ron Brachman, Steve Chien, Tim Finin, Else Getoor, Yolanda Gil, Carla Gomes, Jim Hendler, Hyam Hirsh, Michael Littman, Alan Mackworth, Tom Mitchell, Andrew Moore, Karen Myers, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Ted Senator. Not Present: Tony ...
Celebrating twenty-five years of AAAI: notes from the AAAI-05 and IAAI-05 conferences.(Conference Report)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Surveying the last quarter century of AI since the founding of AAAI in his Presidential Address, Ron Brachman outlined some of the highlights of the past 25 years. Of special note was Deep Blue, the IBM computer system that beat then--reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. ...
Guest editor's introduction.(Special Issue on Innovative Applications of AI)
Sep 22, 2005; ... We are pleased to publish this special selection of articles from the Sixteenth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-04), which occurred July 27-29, 2004 in San Jose, California. IAAI is the premier venue for learning about AI's impact through ...
The General Motors Variation-Reduction Adviser: deployment issues for an AI application.
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Variation-Reduction Adviser (VRA) is a knowledge system for automotive assembly plants whose goal is to support quality improvement activities for assembly line processes (Cafeo et al. 2001, Morgan et al. 2001). The primary use of VRA is to improve communication in the plants and ...
Making better recommendations with online profiling agents.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Electronic profiling agents have been deployed with considerable success in certain agent-based recommender systems, namely, information filtering systems, collaborative filtering systems, and hybrid recommender systems. Unfortunately, the success of the interactive learning method has ...
Ergonomics analysis for vehicle assembly using artificial intelligence.
Sep 22, 2005; ... At the Sixth Annual Applied Ergonomics Conference held in Dallas, Texas, in March of 2003, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) awarded the Ergo Cup in Training and Education to Ford Motor Company for the GSPAS Ergonomics Application (Ergo Solutions 2003). Ford Motor Company has ...
Tenth anniversary of the plastics color formulation tool.
Sep 22, 2005; ... With headquarters in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and technical facilities, manufacturing sites, and sales locations on five continents, GE Plastics (GEP) produces many of the world's best known and most widely used polymers. In offices and factories, in hospitals, homes, and schools, on the ...
A visual qualitative modeling environment for middle-school students.(VModel)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Modeling is a central skill in scientific reasoning. Learning to formulate, analyze, test, and revise models is a crucial aspect of understanding science and is critical to helping students become active, lifelong learners. Supporting students in articulating models of a domain and ...
Identifying terrorist activity with AI plan-recognition technology.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Events in the United States during 2001 tragically demonstrated the nation's vulnerability to acts of terrorism. U.S. security agencies had information available at that time that could have been used to thwart the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, attacks ....
Synthetic adversaries for urban combat training.
Sep 22, 2005; ... Offensive urban combat is one of the most difficult tasks soldiers perform. Urban combat is characterized by building-to-building, room-to-room fighting. Frequent training is an essential element in reducing casualties. However, training in urban environments is costly and restricted to ...
Fall calendar of AI events.(Calendar)
Sep 22, 2005 ... October 2005 OCTOBER 2-5 Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture. Banff, AB Canada * Contact: Peter Clark Boeing Math and Computing Technology, Knowledge Systems, PO Box 3707, m/s 7L-66, Seattle, WA 98124-2207 USA Voice: 425-865-4304 Fax: ...
Tech-minded Kids Pass Up Canoes for Computers.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Tech-minded Kids Pass Up Canoes for Computers. Seth Sutel. The Associated Press. June 3, 2005 (available front various news sites such as thejournalnews.com). "With the summer camp season fast approaching, kids across the country will be stocking up on hiking shoes, bug spray and other ...
Girls Build Robots at RoboCamp.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Girls Build Robots at RoboCamp. Crystal Barbour. The NT Daily. August 4, 200S (www.ntdaily.com)."Girls from all over Denton and Collin Counties [Texas] signed up for the camp. The campers spend their days attending seminars on engineering-related careers and the inner workings of computer ...
Robots Challenge Teens on Break.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Robots Challenge Teens on Break. Larry Slonaker. The Mercury News. July 18, 2005 (www.mercurynews.com). "Laura Williams, 16, has an educational background from early childhood that prepared her well for a summertime class in robotics she's taking at Homestead High School .... Summer ...
Girls Learn about Careers in Technology.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Girls Learn about Careers in Technology. Justin Wolfgang. America, News. June 18, 2005 (www.aberdeennews.com). "Summer break may have started more than three weeks ago in Aberdeen, but don't tell that to a group of girls who spent this week ...
St. Paul's School--A Place to "Learn for the Sake of Learning." Summer Study Session Draws Students Statewide.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... St. Paul's School--A Place to "Learn for the Sake of Learning." Summer Study Session Draws Students Statewide. Chris Baxter. Concord Monitor Online. June 26, 2005 /www.concordmonitor.com). "The five-week intense summer session [of the St. Paul's School Advanced Studies Program], ...
Exploring New Frontiers.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Exploring New Frontiers. John Michael. Drayton Valley Western Review. June 28, 2005 (www.draytonvalleywesternreview.com). "This summer, three local students will explore new frontiers as they spend time at the University of Alberta's research labs in Edmonton as part of the U of A's 21st ...
Gtech Gives Girls Blueprint for Success.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... Gtech Gives Girls Blueprint for Success. Cynthia Lescalleet. Examiner News.com. May 27, 2004 (www.westuexaminer.com). "The best way to increase girls' interest in engineering professions is to expose them early to what the field is all about, which is problem solving. Fortunately, schools ...
The Ultimate Ace.("Always Interesting": AI in the news)(Brief Article)
Sep 22, 2005; ... The Ultimate Ace. Cynthia Martens. Hillsboro Free Press. February 10, 2004 (www.zwire.com). "John Larson, a senior at Canton-Galva High School, earned the title of genius when he scored a perfect 36 on his American College Testing assessment test in late October .... Interested in the ...