AAAI News

In the half century since the birth of the field of AI, there has been tremendous progress in the host of endeavors that constitute the field. There is no better place to hear many of the best minds in the field discuss their current work than the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (www.ijcai-01.org), Attendees to this year's conference will likely have a difficult time choosing among the rich set of offerings available let alone find time to explore the beauty of Seattle, the "Emerald City." Four invited speakers will address the conference. Philip Cohen, now with the Oregon Graduate Institute and a AAAI fellow, will present "Multimodal Interaction," a discussion of natural communication modalities, including spoken language and pen-based gesture in addition to the usual graphic user interface technologies.