Interestingly enough, even the poster session was very successful. Her presentation attracted many people in all areas of AI. "How not to Give a Talk," given and approaches but also to their to an international event with a by Eugene Freuder, from 4C, Cork, future scientific career. It gave Ph.D. students (and The format of the conference included from ENIT, Tarbes, France, and Paolo others...) crucial keys into the usual paper presentations in thematic Liberatore, from University La Sapienza, errors and blunders one can make sessions, a poster session, two invited Rome, Italy, were the cochairs of when presenting research work. STAIRS and ECAI program committees, chaired the Organization Committee. Another goal of From 64 submissions, the Program robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, STAIRS was indeed to offer researchers Committee selected 21 papers and 9 appeared to be the best candidate who have recently completed their posters of high technical quality, for such a purpose.