Conference Highlights

For many, scheduling time was probably the biggest challenge because the conference included numerous invited speakers, 189 technical paper presentations, 93 posters, a Mobile Robot Competition, 19 Innovative Applications of AI (IAAI) award-winning paper presentations, a Trading Agents Competition, a special track on AI and the web, and the vendor exhibit. Where Is AI Having an Impact? Frequently, many of us in the AI community get asked, "Where is AI being used these days?" There were several high-impact applications discussed at IJCAI that provided excellent new information to answer such queries, including Google News and a NASDAQ surveillance tool that detects insider trading and fraud. Google News, which is used several million times a day, employs several AI techniques to automatically generate and refresh the news from 4,500 news sources.