Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI 2008)

This special issue of AI Magazine covers select applications from the IAAI conference held in 2008 in Chicago. The articles address a broad range of very challenging issues and contain great lessons for AI researchers and application developers. Your rice cooker, toaster, and washing machine have their own minds. Your car parks itself; its transmission adapts itself to your driving preferences, and it tells the dealership which parts it thinks it will need to have replaced three months from now. Your PDA knows your preferences and acts as your personal radio station, playing only music you like.