Glean AI has raised $10.8M of seed funding to help small businesses save on vendor expenses using "Intelligent AP." Founded in 2021, Glean AI says it has helped businesses "understand, optimize, and uncover savings" insights on over $500M in vendor spend. The NYC-based company uses machine learning to check deal terms and negotiation opportunities. Howard Katzenberg, Glean AI's CEO and Founder told AllyWatch, "Accounts payable automation is a $40B market. Glean AI is the only platform that analyzes line-item data for game-changing insights." Prior to Glean AI, Katzenberg served as CFO at Better.com and On Deck.

The Atw office at 445 Burgess, Drive has been in operation for over a year; it has taken over responsibility for membership and the N Magazine, as well as continuing its management of conferences, tutorials, and exhibit, programs. The AAAI is financially solvent; asset,s of over $100,000 are projected for the end of the year; the organization is working toward a backup equivalent to one-year's expenses. Given a stable financial status, the AAAI can begin to explore other things to do with its resources (See next column for a statement summarizing AAAI finances as of 30 November.) John McCarthy will be President-Elect for 1982-1983; Saul Amarel, Michael Genescrcth, Peter Hart, and Raj Reddy, will serve on the Council for the period 1982-1985; Stan Rosenschein will complete McCarthy's term on the Council for 1982-1983. The membership is getting close to 2000; there were 1720 members listed before the conference, 160 of which were foreign; conference registrations should add 100-150.

The Board of Directors American Association For Artificial Intelligence Menlo Park, California We have audited the statement of financial position of American Association for Artificial Intelligence as of December 31, 1996 and the related statements of activities, changes in net assets and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Association's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.

The deadline for volunteer applications is April 15, 2004. The Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held July 25-29, 2004 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California. The Sixteenth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-04) will be collocated with AAAI-04. Other programs include the Intelligent Systems Demos, the Mobile Robot Competition, the Tutorial Forum, the Workshop Program, the Student Abstract and Poster Program, and the AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. AAAI-04 and IAAI-04 Calls for Technical Papers, Workshop Proposals, Tutorial Forum Proposals, Student Programs, Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, and other related programs have been mailed to all AAAI members.

Bruce Buchanan, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, presented the AAAI Awards recently at AAAI-02 in Edmonton, Canada. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2,500. The 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper from the Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1983 in Washington, DC. The Awards Committee selected John Canny of the University of California, Berkeley, to receive this award for his paper, "A Variational Approach to Edge Detection." Canny was honored for his creation of the widely used Canny Edge Detector, and his seminal contributions in the areas of John Canny robotics and machine perception.

AAAI is pleased to announce the continuation of its three special awards in 2002, and is currently seeking nominations for the 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award, the AAAI Distinguished Service Award, and the AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award. The 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award will be given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1983 in Washington, DC. The 2002 AAAI Distinguished Service Award will recognize one individual for extraordinary service to the AI community. Finally, the AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award will honor the author(s) of a high quality, effective piece of writing, accessible to the general public or to a broad AI audience (not just a subarea), written within the last two years. The contribution should be based on sound science, interesting ideas or systematic review, with nontrivial content, but the award is primarily for the exposition.

The Twelfth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-2000) will run concurrently with the main technical conference this year on Tuesday, August 1, and Wednesday, August 2. IAAI-2000 will honor six case studies of fully deployed applications with measurable benefits whose value depends on the use of AI technology. This year's papers address applications in a wide variety of domains, including large-scale scheduling, biotechnology, medical data mining, civil engineering, financial modeling, email management, manufacturing, and interactive agents. AI techniques discussed include knowledge-based systems, vision, constraint programming, machine learning, software synthesis, planning and execution, natural language processing, diagnostic reasoning, reasoning with uncertainty, neural networks, and cognitive simulation. The innovative applications conference is intended not only for those involved in applications but also for researchers interested in gaining a better understanding of the applications side of the AI equation. The AAAI-2000 exhibition will offer a wide variety of programs, including the Ninth Annual Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, the Intelligent Systems Demonstrations, the final round of the National Botball Tournament, and the finals of the AAAI-2000 Robot Building Laboratory contest.

Two NEW Awards to be Presented at AAAI-99! AAAI recently established two new awards, to be presented annually at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (except in years where IJCAI is held in North America). The 1999 AAAI Influential Paper Award will be given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. The Awards Committee has selected John McDermott to receive this award for his paper "R1: An Expert in the Computer Systems Domain." McDermott is being honored for seminal contributions to the development of knowledge-based systems and to the establishment of their commercial applicability. The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community.

AAAI-98 Content-rich with traditions plus new additions … This year's Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI-98) offers a program as content-rich and varied as the field of AI itself. In keeping with tradition, there is a strong technical program of 144 papers spanning a wide range of fertile AI ground. Invited speakers this year will cover topics as diverse as AI in medicine in the twenty-first century, an AI program that writes Bachlike music, the limits of current approaches in natural language processing, Bayesian networks, machine learning, and the anthropomorphism of computers. Branching out into new territory, there will also be a panel of science fiction authors spinning tales and lessons of AI in the future. The conference, held in Madison, Wisconsin from July 26-30, 1998, will also be host to the ever-popular robot competition.

If you are an undergraduate or graduate student enrolled in a degree program at any college or university and would like to assist the staff members during AAAI-91 in Anaheim, California (14-19 July 1991), please contact Paul O'Rorke or Michael Pazzani at the address given here. In exchange for assisting AAAI staff members during your volunteer shift, you will receive a complimentary AAAI-9 1 conference registration, the AAAI-91 conference proceedings, and a special AAAI-91 T-shirt. Our 1991 volunteer coordinators, Paul O'Rorke and Michael Pazzani, can be reached by mail at AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 or by email at ncai@ics.uci.edu. All inquiries should include your name, address, telephone, adviser's name, and email address. Abstracts of Ph.D. dissertations submittted for publication in AI Magazine should be limited to 1500 words.