A Summary of the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

The Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) was held in January 2015 in Austin, Texas (USA) The conference program was cochaired by Sven Koenig and Blai Bonet. This report contains reflective summaries of the main conference, the robotics program, the AI and robotics workshop, the Virtual Agent Exhibition, the What's Hot track, the Competition Panel, the senior member track, student and outreach activities, the student abstract and poster program, the doctoral consortium, the women's mentoring event, and the demonstrations program. AAAI-15 received 1991 submissions -- 40 percent more than AAAI-14, which held the previous record. The 974 program committee members and 89 senior program committee members selected 539 papers that were presented either as 15-minute talks or posters (in three large poster sessions) that included 2-minute advertisements in the talk sessions. AAAI-15 needed to be extended by one day to accommodate this many presentations.