James A. Hendler was recognized with the AAAI Distinguished Service Award at AAAI-17 for his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service to AAAI, other professional societies and government activities promoting the importance of artificial intelligence research. This article presents his recipe for success advice, with advice directed at newer AI researchers (with some notes for experienced ones as well).

Trustees to honor senior scientists in artificial intelligence for contributions and service to the field during their careers. The Award carries a stipend of $1,000 and covers expenses of the recipient's attendance at Distinguished Service Award; the first was presented to Bernard Meltzer in 1979. Arthur Samuel is one of the pioneeers in AI. His checkers program was the earliest high-performance AI system, and his work on machine learning is a classic in the field.

The program will complementary areas of interactive Smith (University of California, Santa include invited speakers, research and digital entertainment.

AAAI-18 will be February 4-10, 2018. it draws upon, and contributes

There are five main schools of thought in machine learning, and each has its own master algorithm – a general-purpose learner that can in principle be applied to any domain. The symbolists have inverse deduction, the connectionists have backpropagation, the evolutionaries have genetic programming, the Bayesians have probabilistic inference, and the analogizers have support vector machines. What we really need, however, is a single algorithm combining the key features of all of them. In this webinar I will summarize the five paradigms and describe my work toward unifying them, including in particular Markov logic networks. I will conclude by speculating on the new applications that a universal learner will enable, and how society will change as a result.

Distinguished Service Award: IJCAI 1983

I am pleased to announce that Arthur Samuel has been selected as the recipient of the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award for 1983. I am pleased to announce that Arthur Samuel has been selected as the recipient of the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award for 1983.