AAAI-08 and IAAI-08 Conferences Provide Focal Point for AI

The AAAI-07 Conference: Focal Point for AI Research Worldwide

highlight exceptional research and bring together the talents of a huge number of volunteers. It is still astonishing to me how hard so many worked to make the conference a success.” The diversity of the program — with 8 invited speakers, 256 technical papers, 22 innovative applications papers, 16 tutorials, 15 workshops, 6 competitions, 4 special tracks, a poster session, intelligent systems d...

Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of AAAI: Notes from the AAAI-05 and IAAI-05 Conferences

of AI since the founding of AAAI in his Presidential Address, Ron Brachman outlined some of the highlights of the past 25 years. Of special note was Deep Blue, the IBM computer system that beat then–reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Then there was the boom and bust of expert systems companies, the times when AI was the most popular computer science major, and the 1985 AAAI conferenc...

Celebrating AI's Fiftieth Anniversary and Continuing Innovation at the AAAI/IAAI-06 Conferences

today's keyboards. The introduction of the FORTRAN language was still a year away. " The summer conference, convened on the campus of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, brought together for the first time many of the early pioneers of cybernetics , automata and information theory , operations research, and game theory, " according to the Software History Dictionary Project of the Char...

FOCAL POINT AND FOCAL K-PLANE

This paper deals with the basic notions of k-tautimmersions . These notions come from two special cases; that is, tight and taut immersions. Tight and taut based on high and distance functions respectively and their basic notions are normal bundle, endpoint map, focal point, critical normal. We generalize hight and distance functions to cylindrical function and define basic notions of k-taut ...

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