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AI MATTERS, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 5(3) 2019 AI Matters Annotated Table of Contents An AI assignment for building a Fake News Detec- tor Welcome to AI Matters 5(3) Amy McGovern, co-editor & Iolanda AI Education Matters: A First Intro- Leite, co-editor duction to Modeling and Learning us- Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362078 ing the Data Science Workflow Welcome and summary Marion Neumann Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362083 ACM SIGAI Activity Report Modeling and Learning using the Data Science Sven Koenig, Sanmay Das, Rose- Workflow mary Paradis, John Dickerson, Yolanda Gil, Katherine Guo, Benjamin Kuipers, AI Policy Matters Iolanda Leite, Hang Ma, Nicholas Mat- Larry Medsker tei, Amy McGovern, Larry Medsker, Todd Neller, Marion Neumann, Plamen Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362084 Petrov, Michael Rovatsos & David Stork Policy issues relevant to SIGAI Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362079 ACM SIGAI Activity Report Advancing Non-Convex and Con- strained Learning: Challenges and Opportunities Help Communities Solve Real-World Problems with AI – Become a Tech- Tianbao Yang novation Mentor! Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362085 Tara Chklovski Latest research trends in AI Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362080 Mentors needed to help families, schools and Considerations for AI Fairness for communities to learn, play, and create with AI People with Disabilities Shari Trewin, Sara Basson, Michael Events Muller, Stacy Branham, Jutta Trevi- ranus, Daniel Gruen, Daniel Hebert, Na- Michael Rovatsos talia Lyckowski & Erich Manser Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362081 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362086 Upcoming AI events Contributed article AI Education Matters: Building a Fake News Detector The Intersection of Ethics and AI Michael Guerzhoy, Lisa Zhang & Annie Zhou Georgy Noarov Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362087 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3362077.3362082 Winning essay from the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student 1 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 5(3) 2019 Essay Contest • to publish in print on condition of acceptance by the editor Artificial Intelligence: The Societal • to digitize and post your article in the elec- Responsibility to Inform, Educate, tronic version of this publication and Regulate • to include the article in the ACM Digital Li- Alexander D. 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Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters By submitting your article for distribution in this Special Interest Group publication, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, per- petual, worldwide rights: 2 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 5(3) 2019 Contents Legend Book Announcement Ph.D. Dissertation Briefing AI Education Event Report Hot Topics Humor AI Impact AI News Opinion Paper Precis´ Spotlight Video or Image Details at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters 3 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2019 Welcome to AI Matters 5(3) Amy McGovern, co-editor (University of Oklahoma; [email protected]) Iolanda Leite, co-editor (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3362077.3362078 Issue overview Elimination for SAT and QSAT” (https://jair. org/index.php/jair/article/view/10942). This pa- Welcome to the third issue of the fifth volume per describes fundamental and practical re- of the AI Matters Newsletter. With this issue, sults on a range of clause elimination pro- we want to welcome our new SIGAI Execu- cedures as preprocessing and simplification tive Committee. Elections were completed this techniques for SAT and QBF solvers. Since its Spring, and we have a new leadership team publication, the techniques described therein in place. Sanmay Das of Washington Uni- have been demonstrated to have profound im- versity in St. Louis (former vice-chair) is the pact on the efficiency of state-of-the-art SAT new chair, Nicholas Mattei of Tulane Univer- and QBF solvers. The work is elegant and ex- sity the new vice-chair, and John Dickerson of tends beautifully some well-established theo- the University of Maryland the new secretary- retical concepts. In addition, the paper gives treasurer. Nicholas and John were formerly new emphasis and impulse to pre- and in- active as the appointed AI and Society and La- processing techniques - an emphasis that res- bor Market officers respectively. Sven Koenig onates beyond the two key problems, SAT and will transition into the role of past-chair, and QBF, covered by the authors. continue to serve on the EC in that role. We would also like to note that SIGAI and The new officers want to express their sincere AAAI will be jointly presenting a new annual thanks to Sven Koenig and to Rosemary Par- award for the best doctoral dissertation in AI. adis (the former secretary/treasurer) for the The award will be presented at AAAI, and wealth of novel initiatives they spearheaded in nominations for the inaugural award are due the last three years and the untiring energy by November 15, 2019. Please see http://sigai. they brought to their roles. SIGAI is deeply acm.org/awards/nominations.html for details and indebted to them! information on how to submit a nomination! We would like to mention that there has been a lot of activity in the space of significant awards This issue is full of great new articles and sto- in AI. The inaugural SIGAI Industry Award for ries for you! We open with the annual report of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) was SIGAI. We then bring you a story from a new presented at IJCAI 2019. The award went to way to teach kids and families about AI: Tech- the Real World Reinforcement Learning Team novation Familes’ AI challenge, which brings from Microsoft, for identification and develop- AI into the home by educating parents and ment of cutting-edge research on contextual- children about AI and providing an opportunity bandit learning that led to new decision sup- for them to prototype AI solutions to real-world port tools that were broadly integrated into a problems. They are seeking new mentors for broad range of Microsoft products. John Lang- this year’s challenges! ford and Tyler Clintworth received the award In our regular articles, Michael Rovatsos re- on behalf of the Microsoft team and presented ports on upcoming AI events and we have two a talk on the work at IJCAI. For more on this submissions for AI Education. First, Michael award, please see https://sigai.acm.org/awards/ Guerzhoy talks about building a fake news de- industry award.html tector. Second, Marion Neumann talks about We also congratulate Marijn Heule, Matti bringing AI and ML to a younger audience, Jarvisalo,¨ Florian Lonsing, Martina Seidl and much like CS for all, instead of focusing on se- Armin Biere who have been awarded the 2019 niors and graduate students. In the policy col- IJCAI-JAIR prize for their 2015 paper “Clause umn, Larry Medsker summarizes recent poli- cies covering face recognition (how much data Copyright c 2019 by the author(s). should we record and share?), upcoming AI 4 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3 SEPTEMBER 2019 regulation, and more. Our final regular column Submit to AI Matters! is our AI crosswords from Adi Botea. Enjoy! Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to send We have a new regular column where we your ideas and future submissions to AI invite researchers to present latest research Matters! We’re accepting articles and an- trends in AI. In the inaugural article of this col- nouncements now for the next issue. De- umn, Tianbao Yang describes challenges and tails on the submission process are avail- opportunities of non-convex and constrained able at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. learning. In our contributed articles, Shari Trein et al. describe some of the opportunities and risks Amy McGovern is co- across four emerging AI application areas: editor of AI Matters. She employment, education, public safety, and is a Professor of com- healthcare, identified in a workshop with par- puter science at the Uni- ticipants experiencing a range of disabilities.