AAAI-86: Experimenting with a New Conference Format

During the balmy summer of 1980, about 800 AI researchers pose of the new format, the Committee's recommendation, met on the Stanford campus to hold the first and some expanded ways for members to participate in the AAAI conference. The conference program had no more conference this year. For many of Conference Goals those attendees, it was a special, unique opportunity to have deep colleagial interactions in a very comfortable setting. The most radical change that was considered, but not adopted, was the division of the science and engineering interests into two separate conferences at different times of Even the first national conference, however, was more the year. Many Council members expressed concern that than a gathering of researchers.