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Workshop Report The 1994 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) focused on the evaluation of CBR theories, models, systems, and system components. The CBR community addressed the evaluation of theories and implemented systems, with the consensus that a balance between novel innovations and evaluations could maximize progress. The 4 invited talks, 14 paper presentations, 19 poster presentations, and 1 summary panel discussion were attended by 66 participants. The four invited speakers discussed how CBR approaches can be evaluated in research projects, industrial applications, and military tasks. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University [CMU]) outlined an exhaustive set of measures for evaluating CBR systems and discussed how she applied some of these measures in empirical comparisons with other approaches for solving job shop scheduling problems.

"This comprehensive collection of essays presents the state of the art on this fascinating and challenging research topic. I recommend it to anyone who wants to understand how and why computers will eventually understand what it feels like to have a bad day at the office." Prices subject to change without notice. Since their inception in 1987, the Artificial Life meetings have grown from small workshops to truly international conferences, reflecting the field's increasing appeal to researchers in all areas of science.

Electronic Versions of ALL AAAI Proceedings are Now Available! This year's theme was bridging theory and practice: theorybased practical implementations and commercial applications. In keeping with this theme, part of the symposium focused on demonstrations of unique and innovative AI applications. There were 24 half-hour contributed talks and the following four 1-hour invited lectures: Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University) presented "Creating Reliable Autonomous Systems," which featured monitoring and error recovery and formal verification techniques for intelligent systems. The Bar Ilan Symposia on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence are a series of research meetings held in Israel every two years.

He noted the shared interest of the members of this community in studying high-level cognition, structured representations, comprehensive system development, heuristics, and openness to insights into human cognition. The developments of the last five years warrant a new look at the issues. The five thematic articles in this issue offers such a look. The contributions are diverse and cover a representative -- though by no means a complete -- set of issues and opinions. Sergei Nirenburg's introductory essay offers a bird's eye view of the current directions of research in the field and suggests some aspirational issues that need attention for the cognitive systems community to make a lasting impact.

Many recent technological advances have helped to pave the way forward for fully autonomous vehicles. This special issue explores three aspects of the self-driving car revolution: a historical perspective with a focus on perception for autonomous vehicles, how government policy will impact self-driving cars technically and commercially, and how cloud-based infrastructure plays a role in the future.

You'll start with an introduction to Spark and its ecosystem, and then dive into patterns that apply common techniques--including classification, clustering, collaborative filtering, and anomaly detection--to fields such as genomics, security, and finance. If you have an entry-level understanding of machine learning and statistics, and you program in Java, Python, or Scala, you'll find the book's patterns useful for working on your own data applications."

Prince Harry and a robot have been announced as two guest editors on Radio 4's Today Programme. Their fellow editors will be Baroness Trumpington, Tamara Rojo and Ben Okri. This is the 14th year control has been handed over to public figures between Christmas and New Year. Kensington Palace said Prince Harry would use the opportunity to "shine a spotlight on issues that are close to his heart". The palace added: "He is working closely with Today's team to produce segments on a range of topics, including youth violence, conservation and mental health."

Leading organizations are taking a strategic approach to enabling their enterprise with AI technologies; they are solving complex problems, infusing intelligent capabilities into processes and investing to create a new and preferred future. What can you learn from AI's leading organizations – the Reinventors? This report, part of the 19th edition of our ongoing Global C-suite Study series, draws on input from 3,069 conversations with C-suite executives (CxOs) from April through June 2017. Here, we explore their perspective on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that enable the Digital Reinvention of enterprises.