ACM SIGAI is the

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's Special Interest Group on

Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...

( AI), an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, practitioners,

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, and students who work together to promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing. SIGAI is one of the oldest special interest groups in the ACM. SIGAI, previously called SIGART, started in 1966, publishing the SIGART Newsletter that later became the SIGART Bulletin and Intelligence Magazine.

Conferences

SIGAI supports several conferences. * The ACM/

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International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is an annual conference "focusing on human-robot interaction with roots in robotics, psychology, cognitive science, human computer interaction (HCI), human factors, artificia ...

(HRI). * The

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/ ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI). The next conference will be held October 2016 in

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. * The

/ ACM

International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology The IEEE/WIC/ ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT) is a colocated conference focusing on Web intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology. The conference is a joint undertaking of the In ...

(WI-IAT). * The

International Conference on Automated Software Engineering The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) is a large annual software engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the prin ...

(ASE). The next conference will be held in September 2016 in

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. * The International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI). * The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP). * The

SIGAI Career Network and Conference ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence ( AI), an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students who wo ...

(SIGAI CNC).

Journal

ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) is a scholarly journal that publishes the quality papers on intelligent systems, applicable algorithms and technology with a multi-disciplinary perspective. An intelligent system is one that uses AI techniques to offer important services (e.g., as a component of a larger system) to allow integrated systems to perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently in the real world.

Newsletter/Bulletin

AI Matters is the SIGAI quarterly newsletter featuring ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the

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Awards

SIGAI has two main awards that are given out annually.

Allen Newell Award

The ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award was founded in honor of

Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department ...

, one of the founders of the field of AI. It is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines.

ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award

The ACM/SIGAI

Autonomous Agent An autonomous agent is an intelligent agent operating on a user's behalf but without any interference of that user. An intelligent agent, however appears according to an IBM white paper as: Intelligent agents are software entities that carry out ...

s Research Award recognizes researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by an endowment created by ACM SIGAI from the proceeds of previous Autonomous Agents conferences. Prior to 2014, it was known as the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Award. Winners include the following: * Munindar Singh, 2020 *Carles Sierra, 2019 *Craig Boutilier, 2018 *David Parkes, 2017 *

Peter Stone Peter Stone may refer to: *Pete Stone, Australian footballer in the 1956 Summer Olympics * Peter G. Stone (born 1957), British archaeologist *Peter Stone (cricketer) (born 1938), New Zealand cricketer *Peter Stone (professor) (born 1971), professo ...

, 2016 *

Catherine Pelachaud Catherine Pelachaud is a French computer scientist specializing in human–computer interaction and known for her work virtual assistants and on recognizing and generating facial expressions. She is a director of research for the French National C ...

, 2015 *

Michael Wellman Michael Paul Wellman (born March 27, 1961) is the Richard H. Orenstein Division Chair of Computer Science and Engineering and Lynn A. Conway Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. W ...

, 2014 * Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, 2013 *

Moshe Tennenholtz Moshe Tennenholtz is an Israeli computer scientist and professor with the faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Sondheimer Technion Academic Chair. Biography Tenne ...

, 2012 *

Joe Halpern Joseph Yehuda Halpern (born 1953) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty. Biography Halpern graduated in 1975 from University of Toronto wi ...

, 2011 *

Jonathan Gratch Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name) Jonathan ( he, , Standard: ''Yəhōnatan''/''Yōnatan'', Tiberian: ''Yо̆hōnāṯān''/''Yōnāṯān'') is a common name given to males which means "YHWH has given" in Hebrew. The earliest known use o ...

, 2010 * Stacy Marsella, 2010 *

Manuela M. Veloso Manuela Maria Veloso (born August 12, 1957) is the Head of JPMorgan Chase, J.P. Morgan AI Research & Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was previously Head of the Machin ...

, 2009 *

Yoav Shoham Yoav Shoham ( he, יואב שוהם; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI compan ...

, 2008 *

Sarit Kraus Sarit Kraus ( he, שרית קראוס; born 1960) is a professor of computer science at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. She was named the 2020-2021 ACM Athena Lecturer recognising her contributions to artificial intelligence, notably to multi ...

, 2007 *

Michael Wooldridge Michael Richard Lewis Wooldridge (born 7 November 1956) is an Australian doctor, company director, and former politician. He served as deputy leader of the Liberal Party from 1993 to 1994, under John Hewson. In the Howard Government he held mi ...

, 2006 *

Milind Tambe Milind Tambe known as Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University; he is also the Director "AI for Social Good" at Google Research India. Career Fellowships ...

, 2005 *

Makoto Yokoo is a unisex Japanese name although it is more commonly used by males. As a noun, Makoto means "sincerity" (誠) or "truth" (真, 眞). People Given name * Makoto (musician) (born 1977), drum and bass artist *Makoto (Sharan Q) ( まこと), ...

, 2004 * Nicholas Jennings, 2003 *

Katia Sycara Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara ( el, Κάτια Συκαρά) is a Greek computer scientist. She is an Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally ...

, 2002 * Tuomas Sandholm, 2001

SIGAI Advisory Board

The SIGAI Advisory Board includes: *

Yolanda Gil Yolanda Gil is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in knowledge discovery and knowledge-based systems at the University of Southern California (USC). She served as chair of SIGAI the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Intere ...

* James A. Hendler * Haym Hirsh *

Eric Horvitz Eric Joel Horvitz () is an American computer scientist, and Technical Fellow at Microsoft, where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer. He was previously the director of Microsoft Research Labs, including research centers in Re ...

* Craig A. Knoblock * Qiang Yang

SIGAI Officers

SIGAI Elected Officers include: *

, Chair * Sanmay Das, Vice-Chair * Susan L. Epstein, Secretary-Treasurer *

Maria Gini Maria Gini is an Italian and American Computer Scientist in artificial intelligence and robotics. She has considerable service to the computer science artificial intelligence community and for broadening participation in computing. She was Cha ...

, Past Chair SIGAI Appointed Officers include: * Eric Eaton, Newsletter Editor * Amy McGovern, Newsletter Co-editor * Doug Lange, News Officer * Sven Koenig, Conference Coordination Officer * Gabor Melli, Publications Officer * Smiljana Petrovic, Membership and Outreach Officer * Tom Dietterich, Public Policy Officer *

Mehran Sahami Mehran Sahami is an Iranian-born American computer scientist, engineer, and professor. He is the James and Ellenor Chesebrough Professor in the School of Engineering, and Professor (Teaching) and Associate Chair for Education in the Computer Scien ...

, Education Activities Liaison *

Peter Norvig Peter Norvig (born December 14, 1956) is an American computer scientist and Distinguished Education Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI. He previously served as a director of research and search quality at Google. Norvig is t ...

, Education Activities Liaison * Allen Lavoie, Information Officer

References

External links

ACM SIGAI

ACM Digital Library
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