The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16) and the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-16) will be held February 12-17 at the Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Phoenix is the gateway to the Grand Canyon, and its history is a testament to the spirit of puebloans, ranchers, miners, and visionaries. Nearby Tempe is the site of Arizona State University, home of a leading AI research community. For local information, please visit the Phoenix Visitors site at www.visitphoenix.com. AAAI-16 Registration is now available at aaai.org/aaai16, and online registration can be completed at regonline.

The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16) and the Twenty-Eighth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-16) will be held February 12-17 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Phoenix is America's sixth largest city, yet still has real cowboys, rugged mountains, and the kind of cactus most people see only in cartoons. Phoenix is the gateway to the Grand Canyon, and its history is a testament to the spirit of puebloans, ranchers, miners, and visionaries. Projected against this rich backdrop is a panorama of urban sophistication, with a host of museums, including the Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park and the Heard Museum, sports stadiums, restaurants, and shopping. Nearby Tempe is the site of Arizona State University, home of a leading AI research community.

AAAI-15 and IAAI-15 Move to the Winter! The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) and the Twenty-Seventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-15) will be held January 25-29 at the Hyatt Regency Austin in Austin, Texas, USA. Austin, the Live Music Capital of the World, and the state capital of Texas, is home to one of the largest and oldest communities of artificial intelligence researchers in the world, with more than a dozen AIrelated labs at the University of Texas at Austin. AAAI is working closely with the local AI community to create opportunities for attendees to experience AI in Texas! Attendees can also enjoy nearly 200 music venues that feature everything from rock and blues to country and jazz every night of the week.

Check Out the New AAAI Member Site! AAAI is pleased to announce the launch of the new AAAI member site. By now you should have received email and login information for the new AAAI member site. Using this site, you can renew your membership in AAAI and update your contact information directly. In addition, you will be directly connected with other members of the largest worldwide AI community via the AAAI online directory and other social media features. Direct links are available for new AI Magazine features, such as the online and app versions.

Please Join us for the 25th AAAI Conference in San Francisco! The Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11) will be held August 7-8, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. The Twenty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-11) will be collocated with AAAI-11, and will be held August 9-11 (see www.aaai.org/ The AAAI program cochairs for 2011, Wolfram Burgard (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Dan Roth (Northwestern University) will continue the innovations introduced during the past several years of the conference, including a new special track on Computational Sustainability and AI and the second Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence. An overview of the special tracks is included in this issue of the AAAI News. For the full technical Call for Participation, as well as all program deadlines and guidelines, please visit the AAAI-11 website at www.aaai.org/

We hope you are planning to join us for the IJCAI and IAAI conferences in Pasadena, California, July 11-17, 2009. The IJCAI-09 technical program will kick off with an opening ceremony and reception on Monday, July 13. The reception will be held at the Caltech Athenaeum, where guests will be entertained by a homegrown Jet Propulsion Laboratories (JPL) jazz musical group. Both events have an outstanding program of invited presentations. Hal R. Varian (University of California, Berkeley and Google) will deliver his keynote address titled "Computer Mediated Transactions" on Tuesday morning, July 14.

AAAI-11: The AAAI Conference Turns 25 in San Francisco! AAAI is pleased to announce that the Twenty-Fifth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11) will be held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California, August 7-11, 2011. You won't want to miss this milestone event, held for the very first time in the City by the bay. Details about the AAAI-11 program will be posted as they become available at www.aaai.org/aaai11. We hope to see you in San Francisco!

Eric Horvitz, AAAI president, and Alan Mackworth, AAAI past president and Awards Committee chair, presented the AAAI Awards in July at AAAI-08 in Chicago. The 2008 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the most influential paper from the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts. The award was presented to Steven Minton, Mark D. Johnston, Andrew B. Philips, and Philip Laird for "Solving Large-Scale Constraint Satisfaction and Scheduling Problems Using a Heuristic Repair Method." This paper was honored for its seminal contribution to stochastic local search for constraint satisfaction and its broad influence on local search algorithms and applications in artificial intelligence. In addition, Pattie Maes and Rodney A. Brooks received honorable mention for "Learning to Coordinate Behaviors" and their pioneering work on machine learning applied to the field of robotics, and on advancing the field of behavioral robotics.

Mark your calendars now for AAAI-07, which will be the second AAAI conference to be held in Canada. You will note a slight name change in the conference to account for this trend! We are delighted to announce this permanent change as we expand the venue for the conference throughout the whole of North America. The Twenty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07) will be held July 22-26, 2007, at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in cooperation with the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI/CSEIO) and the University of British Columbia. The Nineteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence will be collocated with AAAI-07, and will be held July 24-26 (for details see the links at www.aaai.org/Conferences/).

Ron Brachman, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, and Alan Mackworth, AAAI President, presented the AAAI Awards in July at AAAI-06 in Boston, Massachusetts. Award winners received a certificate and a check for $1,000. For more information about nominations for AAAI 2007 Awards, please contact Carol Hamilton at hamilton@aaai.org or 650-328-3123. The 2006 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the most influential papers from the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1987 in Seattle, Washington. A joint award was presented this year to Philip E. Agre and David Chapman for "Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of Activity" and to Michael P. Georgeff and Amy L. Lansky for "Reactive Reasoning and Planning."