IBM Watson, Austin
Reports on the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series
Cohen, Adam B. (Independent Consultant) | Chernova, Sonia (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Giordano, James (Georgetown University Medical Center) | Guerin, Frank (University of Aberdeen) | Hauser, Kris (Duke University) | Indurkhya, Bipin (AGH University of Science and Technology) | Leonetti, Matteo (University of Texas at Austin) | Medsker, Larry (Siena College) | Michalowski, Martin (Adventium Labs) | Sonntag, Daniel (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) | Stojanov, Georgi (American University of Paris) | Tecuci, Dan G. (IBM Watson, Austin) | Thomaz, Andrea (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Veale, Tony (University College Dublin) | Waltinger, Ulli (Siemens Corporate Technology)
The AAAI 2014 Fall Symposium Series was held Thursday through Saturday, November 13–15, at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia adjacent to Washington, DC. The titles of the seven symposia were Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Energy Market Prediction, Expanding the Boundaries of Health Informatics Using AI, Knowledge, Skill, and Behavior Transfer in Autonomous Robots, Modeling Changing Perspectives: Reconceptualizing Sensorimotor Experiences, Natural Language Access to Big Data, and The Nature of Humans and Machines: A Multidisciplinary Discourse. The highlights of each symposium are presented in this report.
Reports on the 2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series
Cohen, Adam B. (Independent Consultant) | Chernova, Sonia (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) | Giordano, James (Georgetown University Medical Center) | Guerin, Frank (University of Aberdeen) | Hauser, Kris (Duke University) | Indurkhya, Bipin (AGH University of Science and Technology) | Leonetti, Matteo (University of Texas at Austin) | Medsker, Larry (Siena College) | Michalowski, Martin (Adventium Labs) | Sonntag, Daniel (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) | Stojanov, Georgi (American University of Paris) | Tecuci, Dan G. (IBM Watson, Austin) | Thomaz, Andrea (Georgia Institute of Technology) | Veale, Tony (University College Dublin) | Waltinger, Ulli (Siemens Corporate Technology)
The program also included six keynote presentations, a funding panel, a community panel, and multiple breakout sessions. The keynote presentations, given by speakers that have been working on AI for HRI for many years, focused on the larger intellectual picture of this subfield. Each speaker was asked to address, from his or her personal perspective, why HRI is an AI problem and how AI research can bring us closer to the reality of humans interacting with robots on everyday tasks. Speakers included Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics), Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University), Michael Goodrich (Brigham Young University), Benjamin Kuipers (University of Michigan), Maja Mataric (University of Southern California), and Brian Scassellati (Yale University).