Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence (AI). AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of AI, improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions.
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- Founded
- 1979.
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto.
- Activity
- artificial intelligence.
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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is an international scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of, artificial intelligence (AI). AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of AI, improve the teaching and training of AI practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions.
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History
History
The organization was founded in 1979 under the name "American Association for Artificial Intelligence" and changed its name in 2007 to "Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence". It has in excess of 4,000 members worldwide. In its early history, the organization was presided over by notable figures in computer science such as Allen Newell, Edward Feigenbaum, Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy. Since July 2022, Francesca Rossi has been serving as president. She will serve as president until July 2024 when president-elect Stephen Smith will begin his term.
AAAI Senior Members
AAAI Senior Members
Senior Member status is designed to recognize AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. To be eligible for nomination for Senior Member, candidates must be consecutive members of AAAI for at least five years and have been active in the professional arena for at least ten years. Applications should include information that details the candidate's scholarship, leadership, and/or professional service.
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1979
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence established.
1979
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is recorded from 1979.
Conferences and publications
The AAAI provides many services to the Artificial Intelligence community. The AAAI sponsors many conferences and symposia each year as well as providing support to 14 journals in the field of artificial intelligence. AAAI produces a quarterly publication, AI Magazine, which seeks to publish significant new research and literature across the entire field of artificial intelligence and to help members to keep abreast of research outside their immediate specialties. The magazine has been published continuously since 1980. AAAI organises the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which is considered to be one of the top conferences in the field of artificial intelligence. Other conferences include AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), Artificial Intelligence for Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE), International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), AAAI Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI), and Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Conferences (KDD).
Awards
Awards
In addition to AAAI Fellowship, the AAAI grants several other awards:
ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
The ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science and other disciplines. This endowed award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000, and is supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and by individual contributions. Past recipients: Fred Brooks (1994) Joshua Lederberg (1995) Carver Mead (1997) Saul Amarel (1998) Nancy Leveson (1999) Lotfi A. Zadeh (2000) Ruzena Bajcsy (2001) Peter Chen (2002) David Haussler and Judea Pearl (2003) Richard P. Gabriel (2004) Jack Minker (2005) Karen Spärck Jones (2006) Leonidas Guibas (2007) Barbara J. Grosz and Joseph Halpern (2008) Michael I. Jordan (2009) Takeo Kanade (2010) Stephanie Forrest (2011) Moshe Tennenholtz and Yoav Shoham (2012) Jon Kleinberg (2014) Eric Horvitz (2015) Jitendra Malik (2016) Margaret A. Boden (2017) Henry Kautz (2018) Lydia Kavraki and Daphne Koller (2019) Moshe Y. Vardi and Hector J. Levesque (2020) Carla Gomes (2021) Stuart Russell and Bernhard Schölkopf (2022) David Blei (2023) Peter Stone (2024) Kevin Leyton-Brown (2025)
AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award
The annual AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award was created in 2016 to honor a person (or group of people) who has made major contributions to AI education that provide long-lasting benefits to the AI community. Past recipients: Peter Norvig and Stuart Russell (2016) Sebastian Thrun (2017) Todd W. Neller (2018) Ashok Goel (2019) Marie desJardins (2020) Michael Wooldridge (2021) AI4K12.org team: David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Fred G. Martin, and Deborah Seehorn (2022) Ayanna Howard (2023) Michael Littman and Charles Isbell (2024) Subbarao Kambhampati (2025) Alan Mackworth and David Poole (2026)
AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
The AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is a $1 million award that recognizes the positive impacts of AI to meaningfully improve, protect, and enhance human life.
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- 1.Contact AAAI.
- 2.AAAI Corporate Bylaws.
- 3.AAAI Officials.
- 4.AAAI Announces New President-Elect and New Executive Council Members for 2022. 28 July 2022.
- 5.AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
- 6.2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences.
- 7.Top-ranked Conferences in "Artificial Intelligence". Microsoft Academic Search.
- 8.AAAI Conferences and Symposia. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
- 9.Elected AAAI Fellows. www.aaai.org.
- 10.Association for Computing Machinery. Allen Newell Award.
- 11.ACM. ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award. ACM Awards.
- 12.AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award - AAAI.
- 13.AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. AAAI Awards.
- 14.AAAI membership grades
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