Founded in 1979, AAAI is an international, nonprofit, scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence.
Andrew Ng is the winner of the 2022 AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award for outstanding contributions to machine learning research and its application to significant real-world problems, and to the democratization of AI through free online education.
#AAAI2022
AAAI is delighted to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of
#AI
, including Planning, CSP, Mult-Agent Systems, Semantic Web, NLP, Vision, Deep Learning and HRI.
These new fellows will be inducted at
#AAAI2020
in New York.
AAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of
#AI
, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision
The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc) during
#AAAI2021
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We are thrilled to announce Regina Barzilay of
@MIT_CSAIL
won the 1st $1 million AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity for her ML models for antibiotics and early breast cancer detection. Congrats Dr. Barzilay!
AAAI is delighted to announce the elevation of these nine members to the AAAI Senior Member status. The 2021 cohort made significant contributions to multiple areas of
#AI
. They come from both academic and industrial labs in multiple continents. Congratulations!๐ฅณ
AAAI mourns the passing of
#AI
pioneer Nils Nilsson. Nilsson was a leader of the SRI Shakey project, and is known for A* search and the STRIPS planner. Nilsson wrote the first influential textbook on AI. He was a founding fellow of AAAI, and served as AAAI president (82-83).
We are pleased to announce the 2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner.
Congratulations to Shibani Santurkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization.
And congratulationsโฆ
We are pleased to announce the results of the recent Executive Council election:
@frossi_t
(IBM Research, USA) has been elected to serve as President-Elect for two years, followed by two years as President, and finally two years as Past President.
AAAI is delighted to announce the election of eight new fellows (to be inducted at
#AAAI2018
)
Nancy Amato (TAMU),
Regina Barzilay (MIT)
Marie desJardins (UMBC)
Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC)
Dinesh Manocha (UNC)
Joelle Pineau (McGill)
Amit Sheth (Wright State)
Gaurav Sukhatme (USC)
We're pleased to announce the launch of a new website, , aimed at connecting the AI community to the public and improving public understanding so that everyone can have a meaningful discussion about the deployment of AI in society.
@aihuborg
We are pleased to announce that the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 20-28, 2024.
#AAAI24
will be an in-person conference. Full details โก๏ธ
AAAI is delighted to announce the election of seven new Fellows, to be inducted at
#AAAI2019
in Hawaii.
#AI
Vincent Conitzer, Duke
Luc De Raedt, KU Leuven
Kristen Grauman, UT Austin
Charles Isbell, GA Tech
Huan Liu, Arizona State
Jiebo Luo, U Rochester
Peter Stuckey, Monash U
Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence are now available to review online. The proceedings have been published in 11 consecutive issues which are all available here:
#AI
#ArtificialIntelligence
#AAAI22
AAAI's 2024 proceedings are now published!
โก๏ธ These are the largest proceedings in AAAI's history, consisting of 21 issues containing 2,872 articles spanning a total of 23,861 pages.
All issues are accessible from:
AAAI is delighted to announce the elevation of these 12 members to the AAAI Senior Member status. The 2020 cohort made significant contributions to multiple areas of
#AI
. They come from both academic and industrial labs based in China, India, Israel, UK and USA. Congratulations!
The 2020 AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Dissertation Award recognizes superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. Congratulations to Noam Brown for his work on Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games.
#AAAI2022
AAAI is delighted to announce that Milind Tambe, Harvard University/Google Research is this yearsโ recipient of the AAAI Award for AI for the Benefit of Humanity. The award recognizes the positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life inโฆ
Researchers who have served in leadership positions in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have come together to provide a balanced perspective on managing the progress in the field.
โก๏ธ Read the full article here:
In less the two weeks, the Turing Award winners present at
#AAAI20
. Are you attending? If so, are there topics you hope
@ylecun
,
@geoffreyhinton
, or Yoshua Bengio might address?
The 36th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is underway.
#AAA
!2022 promotes research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines.
#AAAI2022
important deadlines:
- abstract due: August 30
- submission due: September 8
- notification: November 29
- conference date: February 22 - March 1, 2022
#AAAI22
The AAAI-19 Call for Papers is now available at . Submissions begin July 1, 2018. Abstracts are due September 1, 2018 (papers due September 5).
#AAAI2019
As a scientific society, AAAI is against the violence against Black people and the systemic racism that has gone unaddressed for too long. Please read in full, the AAAI Statement Condemning Racism and Calling to Action:
The 2022 AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the community. This year's recipient is Thomas Dietterich for his contributions to the field of AI through roles including president of AAAI and the International Machine Learning Society.
#AAAI2022
#AAAI20
has begun!
Workshop schedule can be found here:
AI Ethics and Society Schedule is here:
Tutorials schedule is here:
And the main program can be found here:
The 2024 AAAI Spring Symposium Series is off to a wonderful start. This year's event is being held at Stanford University. Here are some pictures from the first poster session.
#AAAISpringSymposium
#AAAI23
is officially underway! Speakers and attendees from all over the world convened in Washington D.C. yesterday for a whole week of artificial intelligence demonstration and discussion.
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The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on February 7โ14, 2023 in Washington, D.C., USA. Proceedings are now available online:
Day 5 of
#AAAI23
was capped off with an evening keynote by
@AnimaAnandkumar
,
@Caltech
&
@nvidia
, entitled Accelerating Science: Neural Operators for Learning on Function Spaces.
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We are delighted to introduce Interactive AI Magazine! Interactive AI Magazine provides online access to articles and columns from AI Magazine, as well as news and articles from AI Topics and other materials from AAAI.
Congratulations to Cynthia Rudin for pioneering scientific work in the area of interpretable and transparent AI systems, the advocacy for these features in highly sensitive areas, and serving as a role model for researchers and practitioners.
#AAAI2022
We recognize all 2022 AAAI Fellows who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and unusual distinction in the profession.
#AAAI2023
#2023AAAIFellow
โญNew this yearโญ
#AAAI23
will feature a special track on Safe and Robust Artificial Intelligence (SRAI), focusing on the theory and practice of safety and robustness in AI-based systems.
The call for papers will follow the regular AAAI-23 submission procedure.
Nominations sought for (the first ever) AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Deadline: November 15, 2019. One nomination per Ph.D. granting institution anywhere in the world. Details below.
Spread the word.
Thank you to all the attendees and speakers who traveled from all over the globe to make
#AAAI23
a huge success. We hope you enjoyed the conference as much as we did. See you in Vancouver, BC next year!
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We'd like to recognize all our 2023 AAAI Senior Members who have all achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence.
#AAAI23
#AAAI2023SeniorMembers
One of the largest AAAI gatherings in recent years is about to start tomorrow @ NOLA!
Six packed days of
#AI
, with many exciting events including the first AIES conference.
See you all there. Tweet away with official hashtag:
#AAAI2018
AAAI is excited to announce that AAAI-23 will be in-person after a two-year hiatus. Please join us February 7-14, 2023 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. The early registration deadline for AAAI-23/IAAI-23/EAAI-23 is January 5.
AAAI and ACM/SIGAI invite Ph.D students to apply for the Twenty-Eighth Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop on February 7-8, 2023, immediately before the start of the main AAAI conference.
Check out the exciting program for the first AAAI/ACM conference on AI Ethics & Society! โฆ
#AAAI2018
opening reception will be open to
#AIES
attendees. Onsite registration still open.
Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun, Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Sven Strohband are the winners of the 2022 AAAI Classic Paper Award for "Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge with an AI Robot.โ Congratulations!
#AAAI2022
If you know someone who's
#ArtificialIntelligence
work is helping to make the world a better place, please nominate them for the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity!
AAAI is a signatory to the joint statement of the Computing Research Community opposing House plans to increase taxes on graduate students in the US (coordinated by
@CRAtweets
)
Alice Oh is a Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST; her major research area is at the intersection of machine learning and computational social science. She will be giving a keynote on โThe importance of multiple languages and multiple cultures in NLP researchโ.
#ICWSM22
Know someone who's work in AI has helped improve the world in some way? Nominate them for the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity!
#ArtificialIntelligence
#MachineLearning
We couldnโt be more excited for
#AAAI20
, less than two weeks away! But we're also monitoring the coronavirus situation & working with the Hilton, which follows CDC procedures, as well as NY state and city agencies. Weโll post info here and on the website as we learn more.
AAAI and ACM SIGAI announce the continuation of the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence.
Congratulations to 2024 AAAI Classic Paper Recipients Brian Ziebart, Andrew Maas, Andrew Bagnell, and Anind Dey. Their paper entitled
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning will be recognized at the AAAI-24 awards ceremony on Saturday February 24
for introducing entropyโฆ
The 2022 AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000, recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects.
#AAAI2022
The AAAI community is deeply saddened and mourns the loss of Professor Fahiem Bacchus, an AAAI fellow, who passed away September 22. Fahiem was a brilliant researcher and a kind person. Heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him. He will be greatly missed.
Scenes from the Opening Reception of AAAI-24. We are so excited to see everyone gathered for this annual event. AAAI-24 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, exhibits, and more!
Technical program for this year's
#AAAI20
. Includes
#IAAI20
(Industrial Applications of AI),
#EAAI20
(Educational Advances in AI),
#AISI20
(AI for Social Impact), Diversity & Inclusion Sessions, and AI in Practice.
Congratulations to David Abel (A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning) and Abhishek Das (Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act) for Honorable Mentions for the 2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award.
#AAAI2022
AAAI Members: ๐ณ๏ธElection Time!!๐ณ๏ธ
President Candidates: Francesca Rossi & Qiang Yang
Council candidates: Edith Elkind, Susan Epstein, Chris Geib, Laura Hiatt, Martin Michalowski, Barry O'Sullivan, Balaraman Ravindran & Kartik Talamadupula
Ballots in the mail. Statements below:
Congrats to the four newly elected AAAI Councillors: Yiling Chen
@Harvard
, Judy Goldsmith
@universityofky
, Chad Jenkins
@UMich
and Brian Scassellati
@Yale
!! They will serve for three years starting summer 2019.
Between Feb 7 and 8, over 70 researchers will teach 23 tutorials as part of the
#AAAI20
Tutorial Forum. Topics will cover everything from Explainable AI to Probabilistic Circuits to Creative and Artistic Writing via Text Generation.
Congratulations to Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland, for significant contributions to constraint programming and outstanding leadership in the AI community.
#AAAI2022
#2022AAAIFellow
Thank you
@conitzer
&
@feishaAI
for your *monumental* undertaking! The
#AI
research community owes you a tremendous debt of gratitude. ๐๐
Hope you and the workflow chairs get a good night's sleep! (The excitement of conference planning will begin all too soon.. )
AAAI 2020 decisions are out! (CMT is OK so far, or I wouldn't be posting this :-) )
@feishaAI
and I are extremely thankful for the enormous community effort, especially our workflow chairs who did amazing work. Registration opens soon, stay tuned!
@RealAAAI
#AAAI2020
Today, we welcomed the president-elect Bart Selman and the new councillors , Cristina Conati, Eric Eaton, Ayanna Howard & Ariel Procaccia.
Yolanda Gil takes the presidency, and Rao Kambhampati the past-presidency.
Thanks to Tom Dietterich for six years of leadership & service!
๐REMINDER๐
Call for papers for Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23). We are seeking papers describing highly innovative realizations of AI technology. The conference showcases successful applications & novel uses of
#AI
.
The Spring 2024 issue of AI Magazine is here! This special issue, Beneficial AI: Introducing the National AI Institutes, presents brief reports on the first 18 AI Institutes. Articles describe the goals, themes, early results, and broader impacts of an AI Institute. Thank you toโฆ
AAAI would like to announce a new way to release code and trained models associated with accepted papers. Through the use of an AI Pubs RAIL License from the RAIL Initiative, authors can elect to release their code and trained models under terms that permit free and open accessโฆ
The AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. Who should win in 2021?
Congratulations to Eric Horvitz, former president of AAAI, for his induction into the President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology!
#PCAST
@whostp
Excited to join the Presidentโs Council of Advisors on Science & Technology and contribute to health, prosperity, vitality of our nation & world. Will work across gov't, academia, industry on possibilities at the frontiers of science & tech
#PCAST
@WHOSTP
#AAAI23
conference highlights! Saturday featured a wide variety of events including keynotes, poster sessions, technical and education sessions, and opportunities for networking and discussing
#AI
with peers.
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The AAAI-21 Neuro-Symbolic AI Panel is about to begin!
Introduction by
@kerstingAIML
, AAAI-21 Focus Area Cochair on Neuro-Symbolic AI
Panelists: Matthew Botvinick, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Marta Kwiatkowska, Guy Van den Broeck,
@luislamb
#AAAI2021
The AAAI conference series promotes research in Artificial Intelligence and fosters scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers. Attendees also have the opportunity to attend poster/demo sessions as part of the technical program.