Technology
Introducing Worldwide AI
Fox, Maria (King's College London) | Veloso, Manuela (Carnegie Mellon University) | Horvitz, Eric (Microsoft Research)
Introducing Worldwide AI
Challenges and Opportunities in Applied Machine Learning
Brodley, Carla E. (Tufts University) | Rebbapragada, Umaa (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) | Small, Kevin (Tufts Medical Center) | Wallace, Byron (Tufts University)
Machine learning research is often conducted in vitro, divorced from motivating practical applications. In terms of advancing machine learning as an academic discipline, this approach has thus far proven quite fruitful. However, it is our view that the most interesting open problems in machine learning are those that arise during its application to real-world problems. We illustrate this point by reviewing two of our interdisciplinary collaborations, both of which have posed unique machine learning problems, providing fertile ground for novel research.
Reports of the AAAI 2011 Fall Symposia
Blisard, Sam (Naval Research Laboratory) | Carmichael, Ted (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) | Ding, Li (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) | Finin, Tim (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) | Frost, Wende (Naval Research Laboratory) | Graesser, Arthur (University of Memphis) | Hadzikadic, Mirsad (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) | Kagal, Lalana (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Kruijff, Geert-Jan M. (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) | Langley, Pat (Arizona State University) | Lester, James (North Carolina State University) | McGuinness, Deborah L. (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) | Mostow, Jack (Carnegie Mellon University) | Papadakis, Panagiotis (University of Sapienza, Rome) | Pirri, Fiora (Sapienza University of Rome) | Prasad, Rashmi (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) | Stoyanchev, Svetlana (Columbia University) | Varakantham, Pradeep (Singapore Management University)
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence was pleased to present the 2011 Fall Symposium Series, held Friday through Sunday, November 4–6, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. The titles of the seven symposia are as follows: (1) Advances in Cognitive Systems; (2) Building Representations of Common Ground with Intelligent Agents; (3) Complex Adaptive Systems: Energy, Information and Intelligence; (4) Multiagent Coordination under Uncertainty; (5) Open Government Knowledge: AI Opportunities and Challenges; (6) Question Generation; and (7) Robot-Human Teamwork in Dynamic Adverse Environment. The highlights of each symposium are presented in this report.
A Brief Overview of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa
Ferrein, Alexander (RWTH Aachen University) | Meyer, Thomas
One of the consequences of the growth in AI research in South Africa in recent years is the establishment of a number of research hubs involved in AI activities ranging from mobile robotics and computational intelligence, to knowledge representation and reasoning, and human language technologies. In this survey we take the reader through a quick tour of the research being conducted at these hubs, and touch on an initiative to maintain and extend the current level of interest in AI research in the country.
Reports on the Fourth Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference Workshops
Elson, David (Google) | Rowe, Jonathan (North Carolina State University) | Smith, Adam M. (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Smith, Gillian (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Tomai, Emmett (University of Texas - Pan American)
The Seventh Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE-11) was held October 11–14, 2011 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. Two one-day workshops were held on October 11: Artificial Intelligence in the Game Design Process, and Intelligent Narrative Technologies. The highlights of each workshop are presented in this report.
Reports of the AAAI 2011 Conference Workshops
Agmon, Noa (University of Texas at Austin) | Agrawal, Vikas (Infosys Labs) | Aha, David W. (Naval Research Laboratory) | Aloimonos, Yiannis (University of Maryland, College Park) | Buckley, Donagh (EMC) | Doshi, Prashant (University of Georgia) | Geib, Christopher (University of Edinburgh) | Grasso, Floriana (University of Liverpool) | Green, Nancy (University of North Carolina Greensboro) | Johnston, Benjamin (University of Technology, Sydney) | Kaliski, Burt (VeriSign, Inc.) | Kiekintveld, Christopher (University of Texas at El Paso) | Law, Edith (Carnegie Mellon University) | Lieberman, Henry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Mengshoel, Ole J. (Carnegie Mellon University) | Metzler, Ted (Oklahoma City University) | Modayil, Joseph (University of Alberta) | Oard, Douglas W. (University of Maryland, College Park) | Onder, Nilufer (Michigan Technological University) | O'Sullivan, Barry (University College Cork) | Pastra, Katerina (Cognitive Systems Research Insitute) | Precup, Doina (McGill University) | Ramachandran, Sowmya (Stottler Henke Associates, Inc.) | Reed, Chris (University of Dundee) | Sariel-Talay, Sanem (Istanbul Technical University) | Selker, Ted (Carnegie Mellon University) | Shastri, Lokendra (Infosys Technologies Ltd.) | Smith, Stephen F. (Carnegie Mellon University) | Singh, Satinder (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) | Srivastava, Siddharth (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | Sukthankar, Gita (University of Central Florida) | Uthus, David C. (Naval Research Laboratory) | Williams, Mary-Anne (University of Technology, Sydney)
The AAAI-11 workshop program was held Sunday and Monday, August 7–18, 2011, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California USA. The AAAI-11 workshop program included 15 workshops covering a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. The titles of the workshops were Activity Context Representation: Techniques and Languages; Analyzing Microtext; Applied Adversarial Reasoning and Risk Modeling; Artificial Intelligence and Smarter Living: The Conquest of Complexity; AI for Data Center Management and Cloud Computing; Automated Action Planning for Autonomous Mobile Robots; Computational Models of Natural Argument; Generalized Planning; Human Computation; Human-Robot Interaction in Elder Care; Interactive Decision Theory and Game Theory; Language-Action Tools for Cognitive Artificial Agents: Integrating Vision, Action and Language; Lifelong Learning; Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition; and Scalable Integration of Analytics and Visualization. This article presents short summaries of those events.
Recap of the Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE)
Bulitko, Vadim (University of Alberta) | Riedl, Mark (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Jhala, Arnav (University of California, Santa Cruz) | Buro, Michael (University of Alberta) | Sturtevant, Nathan (University of Denver)
The Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment was held from October 11–14, 2011, on the campus of Stanford University near Palo Alto, California. This report summarizes the conference and related activities.
The AAAI 2011 Robot Exhibition
Chernova, Sonia (Worcester Polytechnic Institut) | Dodds, Zachary (Harvey Mudd College) | Stilman, Mike (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Touretzky, Dave (Carnegie Mellon University) | Thomaz, Andrea L. (Georgia Institute of Technology)
In this article we report on the exhibits and challenges shown at the AAAI 2011 Robotics Program in San Francisco. The event included a broad demonstration of innovative research at the intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence. Through these multi-year challenge events, our goal has been to focus the research community's energy toward common platforms and common problems to work toward the greater goal of embodied AI.
A Perspective on AI Research in India
India is a multilingual and multicultural country that came together less than a century ago. The artificial intelligence community, which gained in strength in the eighties, has had a major focus on research directed towards societal goals of bridging the linguistic and educational divide, and delivers the fruits of information technology to all people. In this article we look at a brief history followed by two examples of research aimed at crossing the language barriers.