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Machine learning algorithms have been trained to predict the likelihood of a person developing dementia with 92 per cent accuracy, a study has concluded. Using data from over 15,300 patients in the US, research from Exeter University found that machine learning can accurately tell who will go on to develop dementia within two years of attending a memory clinic. The technique identifies hidden patterns in the data and learning who is most at risk. The study, published in JAMA Network Open and funded by funded by Alzheimer's Research UK, also suggested that the algorithm could help reduce the number of people who may have been falsely diagnosed with dementia. The researchers analysed data from people who attended a network of 30 National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center memory clinics in the US.

AAAI: It's Time for Large-Scale Systems The most important challenge facing AI today is enabling components to interact in larger scale systems, where modules built with multiple alternative methodologies can be incorporated into robust applications. The infrastructure--computing power, memory, bandwidth, and connectivity--has evolved dramatically. Important theoretical advances have been made in areas such as machine learning, natural language, knowledge representation, task descriptions, sensing, and action in the world. Once again there is substantial demand for AI applications from customers such as DARPA, with a requirement to solve real problems. We need to find ways making AI components interact in larger scale systems.

AAAI has seen great ups and downs, based largely on the perceived success of AI in business applications. Great early success allowed AAAI to weather the "AI winter" to enjoy the current "thaw." Other challenges to AAAI have resulted from its success in spinning out international conferences, thereby effectively removing several key AI areas from the AAAI National Conference. AAAI leadership continues to look for ways to deal with these challenges. AAI began life intending to be completely different from the established professional societies (such as ACM).

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AAAI-17 Has Moved in Time and Place! We are delighted to announce that AAAI-17 will be held February 4-9 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square! AAAI-17 program cochairs Shaul Markovitch and Satinder Singh will continue the traditions of past years with a strong technical program, including three special tracks, as well as rich outreach programs for students, women, and sister conferences. Special technical tracks will include cognitive systems, computational sustainability, and integrated systems. For complete details on the technical program, and the call for papers, please see www.aaai.org/aaai17.php. San Francisco is full of delights for every visitor.

This honor was announced at the recent AAAI-16 Conference in Phoenix. Senior Member status is designed to recognize AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. To be eligible for nomination for Senior Member, candidates must be consecutive members of AAAI for at least five years and have been active in the professional arena for at least ten years. Tom Dietterich, AAAI President, Manuela Veloso, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, and Rao Kambhampati, AAAI President-Elect, presented the AAAI Awards in February at AAAI-16 in Phoenix. The 2016 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the two papers deemed most influential from the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1998 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.

The planning for AAAI-16 in Arizona, February 12-17, 2016 has begun! We hope you will join us for a memorable anniversary year. AAAI-16 Program Cochairs Dale Schuurmans and Michael Wellman plan to build on all the innovations introduced in the past few years, and will introduce a few of their own. Special technical tracks will include Cognitive Systems (Chairs: David Leake (Indiana University) and James Lester (North Carolina State University), Computational Sustainability (Chairs: J. Zico Kolter (Carnegie Mellon University) and Claire Monteleoni (George Washington University), and Integrated Systems (Chairs: Patrick Doherty (Linköping University) and Malik Ghallab (CNRS). Please check the inset on the following page for important deadlines.

Check Out the New AAAI Member Site! AAAI is pleased to announce the launch of the new AAAI member site. By now you should have received email and login information for the new AAAI member site. Using this site, you can renew your membership in AAAI and update your contact information directly. In addition, you will be directly connected with other members of the largest worldwide AI community via the AAAI online directory and other social media features. Direct links are available for new AI Magazine features, such as the online and app versions.

The Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-08) will be held July 13-17, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. The Twentieth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-08) will be collocated with AAAI-08, and will be held July 15-17 (see www.aaai.org The program cochairs for 2008, Dieter Fox (University of Washington) and Carla Gomes (Cornell University) will continue the innovations introduced during the past two years of the conference, and have added a few new touches. Included in these will be a new special track on Physically Grounded AI and the opportunity for all technical paper authors to submit supplementary materials during the review process. An overview of the special tracks is included below.