From: Sheila McIlraith (sheila@cs.toronto.edu)
Date: 05/13/05
Dear Semantic Web Colleagues, As part of the upcoming Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI is pleased to announce the first AI Sister Conference Highlights Program, which will have representatives from 13 major AI conferences summarizing the highlights and hotspots of their communities. For a complete list, please see http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html. You'll note that ISWC2004 has been asked to overview our conference. As the early registration deadline approaches (this Friday, May 13), We wanted to draw your attention to several conference details. A preliminary copy of the conference schedule at a glance can be found at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html. In addition, the list of 229 accepted AAAI papers is at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/technical05.html and the IAAI-05 list of deployed and emerging applications is at http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/IAAI/2005/iaai05-contents.html. The conference program chairs (AAAI-05: Manuela Veloso and Subbarao Kambhampati; IAAI: Neil Jacobstein and Bruce Porter) have put together a wonderful slate of invited speakers, including: AAAI-05 ------- Keynote: Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential Address: Ron Brachman, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Invited Speakers: Tucker Balch, Georgia Institute of Technology Chitta Baral, Arizona State University Amy Greenwald, Brown University Marti Hearst, University of California, Berkeley Sridhar Mahadevan, University of Massachusetts Dana Nau, University of Maryland IAAI-05 ------- J. Martin Tenenbaum: The Future of AI and the Web Jeff Hawkins, Redwood Neuroscience Institute: AI Winter into Spring: Can a New Theory of Neocortex Lead to Truly Intelligent Machines? Martin Keane: Real-world Applications of Genetic Programming Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture: James A. Hendler, University of Maryland Finally, the Intelligent Systems Demonstration Program will showcase 22 state-of-the-art AI implementations, and the Robot Program currently has 15 participating teams, and more are expected. Additional information about these and other AAAI-05 programs is being posted on the web site daily. Detailed schedules should be available soon. Please feel free to contact AAAI at aaai05@aaai.org if you have any questions. We hope you can join us in Pittsburgh! Sheila McIlraith on behalf of AAAI-05 (program co-chair, ISWC 2004)
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