July 11, 1993 Washington, DC Participants: Pat Hayes, Danny Bobrow, Randy Davis, Barbara Grosz, Norm Nielsen, Joe Bates, Paul Cohen, Tom Dean, Johan de Kleer, Bob Engelmore, Ed Feigenbaum, Richard Fikes, Ken Ford, Mark Fox, Peter Friedland, Barbara Hayes-Roth, Jim Hendler, Elaine Kant, Phil Klahr, Benjamin Kuipers, Ramesh Patil, Candy Sidner, Bill Swartout, Katia Sycara, Beverly Woolf, Carol Hamilton Pat Hayes called the meeting to order with the introduction of the newly elected officer and councilors of AAAI. Randy Davis has been elected to a two-year term as President-Elect. Tom Dean, Bob Engelmore, Peter Friedland, and Ramesh Patil have all been elected to three-year terms as AAAI councilors. Hayes gave a special thanks to retiring councilors Tom Dietterich, Richard Fikes, Mark Fox, and Barbara Hayes-Roth for their generous donations of time and energy over the past three years. Hayes also presented Danny Bobrow with a special plaque, noting his many years of service to AAAI.

Allen Newell 1927-1992 Allen Newell, one of the founders of the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, died on July 19, 1992 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was among the founders of AAAI and served as the association's first president.

Knowledge-Based Backtracking," is a principal researcher for the Advanced Technology Center, Boeing Computer Services, P.O. Preston A. Cox, coauthor of "Real-Time Knowledge-Based Systems," is a scientific programmer specialist for Lockheed's Space System Division in Sunnyvale, California. Rebecca Gomez is a graduate research assistant at the Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexi-0.88003. Kentieth M. Kahn, author of the workshop report "Concurrent Logic Programming, Metaprogramming, and Open Systems, " is a member of the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304. His interests include computer language design, distributed computing, logic programming, parallel computations, and object-oriented programming.

We hope you are planning to join us for AAAI-14, and collocated events IAAI-14 and EAAI-14, in Québec City, Quebéc, Canada, July 27-31, 2014. The AAAI-14 technical program will kick off with the opening reception at the Québec City Convention Centre on the evening of Monday, July 28. On Tuesday morning, July 29, the program chairs will welcome attendees, and conference and AAAI awards will be presented. The Presidential Address by Manuela Veloso will be delivered on Wednesday, July 30, at 1:00 PM. The AAAI-14 program will feature invited talks by Cynthia Breazeal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania), Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine), and Milind Tambe (University of Southern California). The recipient of the 2014 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Award, Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California), will deliver his lecture, on Tuesday, July 29 during IAAI-14, and Ron Kaplan (Nuance Communications) will address the IAAI-14 conference on Wednesday, July 30. AAAI-14 will introduce many innovations and will feature several new programs. The technical program will include a conference-wide poster session, comprising posters for all 398 accepted papers, which will be available for viewing throughout the three days of the technical program. Authors presenting oral talks will do so in two ways: traditional 15-minute presentations in parallel sessions, and short 2.5-minute presentations in a series of plenary sessions. AAAI-14 will also feature many new collocated programs, including the CRAW/CDC Broadening Participation in AI event, promoting increased participation of women and members of other underrepresented groups in AI research. A special women's lunch on Tuesday, July 29 is open to all women attending AAAI (preregistration required), and other special events are planned. In addition to the return of Puzzle Night on Tuesday, July 29 (also including some new challenges!), the entertainment portion of the program is expanding to include a Speed Dating event, scheduled for 5:00 PM on Wednesday, July 30, designed to promote opportunities for networking, mentoring, and sharing research. Speed Dating will be followed by the AAAI-14 Conference Fête, open to all AAAI registrants, at Le Théâtre and Le Cabaret du Capitole de Québec, a five-minute walk from the Convention Centre. Established in 1903 and located in the heart of Old Québec, this unique urban architectural building is considered the loveliest banquet hall in Québec City. The connecting Cabaret is the old Cinéma de Paris and has a charming Art Deco style. A jazz trio will perform, and heavy hors d'oevres and desserts will be served along with a complimentary beverage.

In preparation for the AI-driven future we all face, I spent a good portion of 2017 making connections with our future robot overlords -- specifically the friendly faces of AI called "chatbots." It's good to know how to talk to these AIs, because these "human-like conversational characters" that will be the face of corporations and our own in-home personal assistance automatons before we know it. Conversational UI is the future, friends, and it's going to be way more fun than talking to Alexa. Now that the New Year has begun, I thought it would be fun to ask a few chatbots for their 2018 predictions for the AV industry and technology in general. As usual, the chatbots' responses are surprisingly philosophical, if not entirely practical.

When we inject "intelligence" into content management systems, from automating menial tasks to analyzing the tone of each piece of content, the possibilities are endless. On the retail side of things, more brands have started harnessing the technology to deliver content, increase engagement, and strengthen brand affinity. Now, B2B brands are catching on creating more innovative business cases as well. To go more in-depth on where artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) powered technologies sit in the eCommerce world, our media reporter Laura Myers had a great conversation with Ed Kennedy, Commerce Strategist at Episerver. As Ed pointed out during the interview, the use of AI and ML is rapidly emerging from its initial use case; personalization.

Martin Welker is the chief executive of Axonic. Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy in the room. Congratulations, you are a member of a very exclusive club. With Kaggle, you can even earn decent money by solving real-world projects. All in all, it is an excellent position to be in, but is it enough to build a business? You can not change market mechanics, after all.

Martin Welker is the chief executive of Axonic. Even with the support of AI frameworks like TensorFlow or OpenAI, artificial intelligence still requires deep knowledge and understanding compared to a mainstream web developer. If you have built a working prototype, you are probably the smartest guy in the room. Congratulations, you are a member of a very exclusive club. With Kaggle you can even earn decent money by solving real world projects. All in all it is an excellent position to be in, but is it enough to build a business? You can not change market mechanics after all.

This is an excerpt from a long interview between an anonymous data scientist and Logic Magazine about AI, deep learning, FinTech, and the future, conducted in November 2016. LOGIC: Alright, let's get started with the basics. What is a data scientist? Do you self-identify as one? DATA SCIENTIST: I would say the people who are the most confident about self-identifying as data scientists are almost unilaterally frauds.

WHENEVER I want answers to anything, I go to my modern-day oracle called Google. Of course, there are huge differences between this virtual oracle and the legendary Oracle of Delphi. The ancient Greeks went to Delphi to consult the priestess Pythia for answers to their questions and she, in turn, would deliver her replies in the form of cryptic prophecies that needed interpretation. And woe be upon the person who understood it wrongly, as in the case of the Lydian king Croesus, who asked Pythia whether he should wage war on the Persian empire. The reply he got was that a great empire would be destroyed if he did so.