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."

The Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06) and the Eighteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-06) will be held in Boston, Massachusetts at the Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center, July 16-20, 2006. AAAI-06 will mark the launch of activities celebrating AI's fiftieth anniversary. Please join us for this landmark event! AAAI is pleased to announce the launch of the First Annual Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference. The conference will be held June 1-3, 2005 at the Marriott Hotel in Marina del Rey, California.

The 2004 Fellows Selection Committee is currently accepting nominations for AAAI Fellow. The AAAI Fellows program is designed to recognize people who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence over at least a ten-year period. All regular members in good standing are encouraged to consider nominating a candidate. Two references must accompany nominations. The nominator or one of the references must be an AAAI Fellow who is a current member of AAAI.

Many of you have been receiving the AI Alert newsletter, which highlights selected features from the "AI in the News" section of the AAAI Pathfinder/AI Topics web pages. If you are a member of AAAI and would like to begin receiving this newsletter, along with other AAAI announcements, please subscribe to our AAAI membership list server by sending email to majordomo@aaai.org Be sure to visit the AI Topics web site at www.aaai.org/AITopics/aitopics.html The deadline for nominations is November 1, 2003. The 2004 Spring Symposium Series will be held March 22-24, 2004 at Stanford University.

The Seventeenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-01) was held in Seattle, Washington, from 6 to 10 August 2001. It was a stimulating blend of invited speakers, special events, 29 workshops, 20 tutorials, 3 robot competitions, 4 days of technical paper presentations, innovative applications, awards, and more. For the 1,509 attendees of the technical conference, and the additional 1,171 who came to see the exhibits, it was a time for catching up with old colleagues and meeting new. Besides tackling the heady research and engineering agenda that is AI, attendees still know how to have fun. The opening reception was held at the Boeing Museum of Flight, and the conference banquet took place at beautiful Blake Island's Tillicum Village and included a hearty salmon feast.

The Twelfth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2000) will run concurrently with the main technical conference this year on Tuesday, August 1, and Wednesday, August 2. IAAI-2000 will honor six case studies of fully deployed applications with measurable benefits whose value depends on the use of AI technology. This year's papers address applications in a wide variety of domains, including large-scale scheduling, biotechnology, medical data mining, civil engineering, financial modeling, email management, manufacturing, and interactive agents. AI techniques discussed include knowledge-based systems, vision, constraint programming, machine learning, software synthesis, planning and execution, natural language processing, diagnostic reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, neural networks, and cognitive simulation. The innovative applications conference is intended not only for those involved in applications but also for researchers interested in gaining a better understanding of the applications side of the AI equation. The AAAI-2000 exhibition will offer a wide variety of programs, including the Ninth Annual Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, the Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, the final round of the National Botball Tournament, and the finals of the AAAI-2000 Robot Building Laboratory contest.

AAAI President David L. Waltz presented the two new AAAI awards recently at AAAI-99 in Orlando, Florida. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2500. The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. The AAAI Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the first recipient of this award was Barbara J. Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science at Harvard University and a past president of AAAI. Grosz was honored for her contributions to the field of AI through sustained service in a multitude of academic, professional society, and government leadership roles at the local, national, and international levels, through which she has had a major effect on the field and on those working in it.

AAAI is pleased to announce the establishment of two new awards, to be presented annually at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (except in years when the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence is held in North America). This award will honor the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year. The 1999 award will be given to the most influential paper(s) from the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford, California.

RoboCup, World Cup Robot Soccer, is a task for a team of multiple, fastmoving robots in a dynamic environment. The first RoboCup Competition will be held as part of the special program at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, Japan, 23 to 29 August. There will be two tracks: one for physical robots and a second for software simulations. The Robo-Cup task offers opportunities for research on both the hardware and software aspects of multiagent systems. More information can be found at the RoboCup web site, http://www.robocup.org/RoboCup.

This page includes forthcoming AAAI sponsored conferences, conferences presented by AAAI Affiliates, and conferences held in cooperation with AAAI. AI Magazine also maintains a calendar listing that includes nonaffiliated conferences at www.aaai.org/Magazine/calendar.php. The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media ICWSM-16 will be held May 17-20, 2016 in Cologne, Germany. AIIDE-16 will be held in October in the San Francisco Bay Area. HCOMP-16 will be held October 30-November 3 in Austin, Texas, USA.