The 2005 SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium

searchers. The consortium is consistently praised by students as an exceptionally educational and valuable part of the conference. Sixteen students (5 women and 11 men) presented their work, selected from an extremely competitive applicant pool of 42 submissions. Their research represents a variety of subfields of AI, including planning, natural language, probabilistic reasoning, and machine learning. The students came from a cross-section of universities across the United States, from the Northeast to the West Coast, as well as one student from the United Kingdom and another from Italy. Nineteen experienced researchers were involved in the review and mentoring process. In addition to the student presentations, a panel session was held in which Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Terran Lane (University of New Mexico) talked about how to present research results and how to get the most out of conference attendance. Student participants were enthusiastic about the event. One student commented, “The DC was an invaluable experience for me—for many reasons, but primarily because it was my ■ I report on the tenth annual AAAI/ SIGART Doctoral Consortium, colocated with the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05). I discuss highlights of the consortium and include pointers to the consortium web site.