OAKLAND, California – More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world's largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers in staunchly anti-union Silicon Valley. The union's creation is highly unusual for the tech industry, which has long resisted efforts to organize its largely white-collar workforce. It follows increasing demands by employees at Google for policy overhauls on pay, harassment and ethics, and is likely to escalate tensions with top leadership. The new union, called the Alphabet Workers Union after Google's parent company, Alphabet, was organized in secret for the better part of a year and elected its leadership last month. The group is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America, a union that represents workers in telecommunications and media in the United States and Canada.

Submissions for HCOMP-19 Are Due in June! The Seventh AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2019) will be held October 28-30 at Skamania Lodge in Washington State near the Columbia Gorge River, just 45 minutes from Portland, Oregon. This year is the 10-year anniversary of the very first HCOMP workshop in Paris, and to celebrate, there will be special events, talks, and panels throughout the conference. HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) represent traditional mainstays of the conference, HCOMP believes strongly in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research.

ICWSM-18 and HCOMP-if any spots remain open.The organizers Munich, Germany. For information 18 were both successful, with increases of the AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair are about paper submissions, as well as the in attendance. Smith noted that John Dickerson (University of Maryland, planned program, please refer to although we budgeted for a deficit of USA) and Chris Amato (Northeastern icwsm.org/2019.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan – Pakistani Taliban militants chose a religious scholar as their new chief in place of Mullah Fazlullah, the insurgent leader who ordered the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and was killed earlier this month in a U.S. drone strike. Mohammad Khurasani, a spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, said Saturday that the executive council of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan appointed Mufti Noor Wali Mahsud as its new chief and Mufti Mazhim, aka Mufti Hafzullah, as his deputy. Khurasani conceded for the first time that Mullah Fazlullah was killed in the drone attack in Afghanistan's Kunar province. He did not say when and where the TTP executive council met to choose the new leader. A ruthless leader, Fazlullah ordered the beheading of dozens of opponents when his band of insurgents controlled Pakistan's picturesque Swat Valley from 2007 until a massive military operation routed them out in 2009. Fazlullah rose to prominence through his radio broadcasts in Swat demanding the imposition of Islamic law, earning him the nickname "Mullah Radio."

Recently, AAAI coordinated and The Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) cosigned a statement with CRA, and the Thirty-First Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial expressing concern about the proposed Intelligence (IAAI-19), will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, January tax bill and its ramifications for graduate 27 - February 1, 2019. The technical conference will continue its student stipends. Other organizational 3.5-day schedule, preceded by the workshop and tutorial programs.

A series of special events celebrating the Alan M. Turing Centenary, including the ACM A. M. Turing Award Lecture by Judea Pearl, the 2012 Inaugural AAAI Turing Lecture by Christos Papadimitriou, and a special performance of "Hello Hi There" will be featured at AAAI-12 in Toronto. We hope you are planning to join us for AAAI-12, and collocated events IAAI-12 and EAAI-12, in Toronto, July 22-26, 2012. The AAAI-12 technical program will kick off with the opening reception in the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel on the evening of Monday, July 23, followed by the presentation of the annual AI Video Competition Awards. On Tuesday morning, July 24, the program chairs will welcome attendees, and conference and AAAI awards will be presented. The awards ceremony will be followed by the AAAI Presidential Address by Henry Kautz and then by the first of several Turing Centenary special events.

Henry Kautz, AAAI President, and Eric Horvitz, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, presented the AAAI Awards in July at AAAI-10 in Atlanta. For information about nominations for AAAI 2011 Awards, please contact Carol Hamilton at hamilton@aaai.org or 650-328-3123. The 2010 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the most influential paper from the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1991 in Anaheim, California. The award was presented to David McAllester and David Rosenblitt for Systematic Nonlinear Planning. This paper was honored for contributing seminal principles of systematic nonlinear planning, with wide-ranging influences on the evolution of research on automated planning.

Tom Mitchell, AAAI past president and Awards Committee chair, and Ron Brachman, AAAI president, presented the AAAI awards in July at AAAI-05 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Award winners received a certificate and a check for $1,000. He formerly held the position of associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington Seattle, and between academic jobs held a variety of industry positions at Harlequin Software, Amazon.com, and other companies. He earned a Ph.D. degree from Yale University, and an M.B.A. degree from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Drew McDermott has done work in several areas of artificial intelligence. One of his perennial interests is in planning algorithms, which calculate structures of actions for autonomous agents of various sorts. He did seminal work in the area of hierarchical planning in the 1970s. In the last decade, his focus has switched to regressionbased techniques for classical planning, especially methods ...

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