AAAI-08 and IAAI-08 Conferences Provide Focal Point for AI

This year's conferences were held in Perhaps one of the true litmus tests of any conference is the caliber of the invited speakers. Sensibility: Sentiment Analysis, Opinion and research manager at Microsoft Research) The distinguished Robert S. Englemore Mining, and the Computational who gave his AAAI presidential Memorial Award Lecture was delivered Treatment of Subjective Language"), address, "Artificial Intelligence in the by Kenneth Ford (Florida Institute while Seth C. Goldstein (Carnegie Open World." Mel lon University) discussed revolutionary Chris Urmson (Carnegie Mellon In his lecture, "Toward Cognitive work in self-reconfiguring programmable University), a leading member of the Prostheses," Ford discussed human-centered matter composed of ensembles of submillimeter robots in his DARPA Urban Grand Challenge winning computing to amplify talk, "Realizing Claytronics: A Challenge team, described the race and winning human cognition and perception. Instead of the learning for network analysis in ("From Images to Scenes: Using popular competition, which has his talk, "Making Sense of Complex Lots of Data to Infer Geometric, Photometric, pushed the envelope of mobile robotics Networks." David Haussler (University and Semantic Scene Properties since its inception, this year was of California, Santa Cruz) traced the from a Single Image"), and Lillian host to a Robot Workshop and Exhibition.