The 13th Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS) was held May 26-28, 2020. Originally scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria, the symposium pivoted toward a fully online technical program in early March. As an in-person event SoCS offers participants a diverse array of scholarly activities including technical talks (long and short), poster sessions, plenary sessions, a community meeting and, new for 2020, a Master Class tutorial program. This paper describes challenges, approaches and opportunities associated with adapting these many different activities to the online setting. We consider issues such as scheduling, dissemination, attendee interaction and community engagement before, during and after the event. We report on the approaches taken by SoCS in each case, we give a post-hoc analysis of their their effectiveness and we discuss how these decisions continue to impact the SoCS community in the days after SoCS 2020.

This is an exciting time to be an artificial intelligence researcher. AI technologies and applications have truly entered our everyday lives, with AI systems in use throughout society. Against this backdrop of AI’s remarkable success, the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina between 25 and 31 July 2015, is poised to break several records. This is the first time the flagship international AI conference has been held in South America, and the number of submissions to the technical program has reached an historical high. These proceedings collect some of the most exciting research taking place in AI today and offer a window into the future. The theme of this year’s conference is Artificial Intelligence and Arts. Being held in Argentina, the home of Tango, the conference will feature invited talks, performances, demos and a technical track dedicated to the exploration and celebration of AI’s growing role in the Arts, both in enriching and producing Arts and in injecting art into AI to make it an elegant and more accessible scientific discipline.

Welcome to the Twenty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-13! As can be seen in these proceedings, AI's scope and influence continue to grow. This year, we received 827 submissions across a variety of tracks, allowing us to put together a diverse and exciting technical program featuring the field's top research. The AAAI-13 program seeks to capture the diversity of this important field. The main technical program features four special tracks -- AI and the Web, Cognitive Systems, Computational Sustainability, and AI and Robotics -- which highlight specialized areas of the field.

On Tuesday morning, July 12, the program chairs will welcome attendees, and conference and AAAI awards will be presented. The awards ceremony will be followed by the AAAI-10 keynote address, to be include 199 oral presentations in the is the definitive point of interaction delivered by Leslie Pack Kaelbling main track, as well as 75 additional between entertainment software developers (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presentations in the special tracks on interested in AI and academic entitled "Intelligent Interaction Bioinformatics, AI and the Web, Challenges and industrial AI researchers. AAAI-10 has an in AI, Integrated Intelligence, by AAAI, the conference is targeted outstanding program of invited presentations, Physically Grounded AI, Nectar, and at both the research and featuring Carla P. Gomes Senior Member, as well as poster presentations commercial communities, promoting (Cornell University), Barry O'Sullivan by a select number of exceptional AI research and practice in the context (University College Cork), David C. technical papers, short papers, of interactive digital entertainment Parkes (Harvard University), and student abstracts, and doctoral systems with an emphasis on commercial Michael Thielscher (The University of consortium abstracts. Registration information with Jay M. Tenenbaum (CollabRx The week is filled with a host of and other program details will Inc.), the 2010 recipient of the other programs, including the AI be available on the AIIDE-10 website Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Video Competition, the AI Poker at www.aaai.org/aiide10 The IAAI-10 program Semantic Robot Vision Challenge, the Michael Youngblood (University of will also feature talks by Majd Alwan General Game Playing Competition, North Carolina Charlotte). Care Empowered by Applied AI," Registration for AAAI-10, IAAI-10, and Vernor Vinge (San Diego State and EAAI-10 is included in one joint University) on "Species of Mind." fee.

The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held July 9-13, 2005, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference, which marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), received 803 submissions to the technical program. All papers were double-blind reviewed, and 150 papers were accepted for oral presentation, while 79 papers were accepted for poster presentation. The keynote address was delivered by Marvin Minsky.