Reports of the AAAI 2010 Spring Symposia

The titles of the seven symposia were Artificial Intelligence for Development; Cognitive Shape Processing; Educational Robotics and Beyond: Design and Evaluation; Embedded Reasoning: Intelligence in Embedded Systems; Intelligent Information Privacy Management; It's All in the Timing: Representing and Reasoning about Time in Interactive Behavior; and Linked Data Meets Artificial Intelligence. The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Development was organized to explore opportunities for using machine learning, inference, planning, and perception to enhance the quality of lives of disadvantaged populations. Over the last several years, a community of researchers with interest in applying computing and communication technologies in developing regions has come together under the label Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT-D). However, ICT-D efforts to date have rarely focused on opportunities to harness machine learning, reasoning, and perception to create intelligent systems, services, models, and analyses. Beyond exploring research projects and directions, we hoped that bringing together a critical mass of researchers who share an interest in applying AI to development challenges would serve to help launch a new vibrant subfield of ICT-D on artificial intelligence for development (AID).