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July Conference Highlights m An AI Art Exhibition will showcase robot weighing in at 300 lbs., from the use of AI in serious works SRI; Bert and Ernie, midget-sized Again this year, AAAI is staging the of art. AIon-Line, five audience-interactive Technologies, untethered and battery with the National Conference on Artificial AI user panels, will offer practical powered, from NASA-JSC; William, a Intelligence, with 19 deployed learning on key business and feel-its-way robot from MIT and JPL; applications selected for presentation organization issues, based on case Flash, a Denning mobile platform from entries from around the world. A series of invited speakers and guidance from MITRE; Flash dimension to the conference, panels will complement the refereed Zorton, a walking machine designed promising give-and-take discussions papers and introduce areas of to compete in the robotic decathlon, about AI in operation. AI research that have unusual from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal; AAAI-92 offers a series of technical interest and application. The of Southern California/Information The AAAI Robot Rules capture the National Conference is the year's Sciences Institute, and Peter spirit of the competition, indicating, largest meeting ground for those Szolovits, Associate Professor of Computer "It will not be slick, polished...there interested in AI, from scientific, academic, Science at the Massachusetts will be a certain amount of chaos, and business communities. This year's program is particularly There is a serious purpose, diverse, with concentration on research AAAI To Include New Dean noted, "to bring together areas results that bridge the gaps between AI Robotics Competition of AI including those working in perception, the different AI technologies and the AAAI will have its first AI Robotics Highlights, including AAAI-92 National Conference in San facilitate this and to make 34 focused technical sessions, with Jose, California July 12-16, 1992.