The workshops took place October 8-9, 2012, at Stanford University. This report contains summaries of the activities of those four workshops. With the advent of the BWAPI StarCraft programming interface, interest in real-time strategy (RTS) game AI has increased considerably. At the 2011 AIIDE conference, several papers on the subject were presented, ranging from build order planning, over state estimation, to plan recognition. In addition, a panel discussion on RTS game AI took place, the StarCraft competition was discussed, prizes were awarded, and two exhibition match replays were shown.

Deploying AI systems on the Web provides tangible evidence of the power and utility of AI techniques. Next time you encounter AI bashing, wouldn't it be satisfying to counter with a handful of well-chosen URLs? At the conference, Jude Shavlik asked me to edit a special issue of AI Magazine describing AI systems that have the Web as their domain. Indeed, the authors of each article included in this special issue have promised to create and maintain a URL pointing to a working prototype. Now, almost a year later, we have the fruit of this labor.

In the past 12 months, ZDNet has explored important developments from across the Middle East and North Africa region, diving into ecommerce, smart cities, and cybersecurity, as well as emerging trends such as Dubai's ambitions for blockchain, the expansion of Middle East and North Africa ride-hailing service Careem, and many others. To kick off 2018, we have revisited some of our most popular pieces from the past 12 months, asking specific organizations and interviewees to update their story and give ZDNet readers a sense of what to expect in the year ahead. In 2017, we saw the protection of data coming under more intense scrutiny. With incidents of cybercrime increasing in the Middle East, 2018 will see more businesses and governments placing cybersecurity and privacy at the top of their priority lists. Our research shows where organizations are spending their IT budgets in 2018 and what their top priorities are.

Fashion e-tailer Myntra plans to turn its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning platfrom called Rapid into a separate business vertical, just like parent Flipkart.

By all accords, 2017 has been a busy, bittersweet year for the tech industry. Cutting-edge product designs have been balanced out by much-hyped products, and sometimes entire companies, going bust. This has not really been the year of consistent breakneck innovation, but there is still quite a lot to take a look at.

SingularityNET, is an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI, has raised a lot of money in its token sale. In around 60 seconds after opening the sale to the public, it sold out of the whole amount of available tokens (the AGI token), bringing the total to $36 million.

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Human resources as a function has experienced significant changes in the last decade due to the evolution of technologies. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the way companies hire, manage and engage with their workforce. Advanced data-driven technology is rapidly making its way into the HR industry as businesses are focusing more on creating an employee-oriented corporate culture. Recruitment is no more a tedious process for HR practitioners as it no longer entails time-consuming activities such as manually screening the resumes of the prospective candidates, making phone calls or replying to candidates via emails. These mundane errands are now managed by smart technologies designed to replicate human conversation, thus enabling HR experts to contemplate the bigger picture. According to the India Report of Deloitte's 5th Annual Global Human Capital Trends, 53% of companies are revamping their HR programmes to deploy digital tools, while 22% have already leveraged AI to deliver HR solutions.

Recent news on Sophia the robot getting citizenship in the Saudi Arabia has widely attracted daily news and social media. Despite the debates and agitations on a robot getting recognition as humans, experts view this event as a phenomenal milestone in the research of AI.

You can't understand AI until you know the categories: robotic process automation, cognitive augmentation and cognitive automation.