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Annotated Table of Contents AI Education: Deep Neural Network Learning Resources Welcome to AI Matters, Volume 3(3) Todd W AI MATTERS, VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2017 AI Matters Annotated Table of Contents AI Education: Deep Neural Network Learning Resources Welcome to AI Matters, Volume 3(3) Todd W. Neller Eric Eaton & Amy McGovern Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137580 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137575 Interested in deep learning? Want to learn more or teach it in your classes? Look no further! AI Events Michael Rovatsos Celebrating the Past, Present, and Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137576 Future of Computing Timothy E. Lee & Justin Svegliato Listing of upcoming SIGAI-related events. Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137581 ACM SIGAI Activity Report Two SIGAI student scholars cover “The 50 Years of the ACM Turing Award Celebration.” Sven Koenig, Sanmay Das, Rose- mary Paradis, Eric Eaton, Yolanda Gil, Katherine Guo, Bojun Huang, Albert ACM SIGAI CHINA: A New Incubator Jiang, Benjamin Kuipers, Nicholas Mat- for AI in China tei, Amy McGovern, Larry Medsker, Le Dong, Man Yuan, Ming-Liang Xu & Ji Todd Neller, Plamen Petrov, Michael Wan Rovatsos & David Stork Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137582 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137577 Read about the new China chapter of ACM SIGAI. This report summarizes the annual activity of ACM SIGAI from July 2016 to June 2017. On the Importance of Monitoring and Directing Progress in AI AI Profiles: An Interview with Maja Lukas Prediger Mataric´ Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137583 Amy McGovern & Eric Eaton ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest Winner Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137578 An interview with Maja Mataric´ from USC. Truth in the ‘Killer Robots’ Angle? Matthew Rahtz AI Buzzwords Explained: Multi-Agent Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137584 Path Finding Hang Ma & Sven Koenig ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest Winner Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137579 How Do We Ensure That We Re- If your multi-agent system needs to find paths, this main In Control of Our Autonomous article will help get you started. Weapons? Ilse Verdiesen 1 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2017 Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3137585 Contents Legend ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest Winner The Ethics of Automated Behavioral Book Announcement Microtargeting Ph.D. Dissertation Briefing Dennis G. Wilson Full article: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3137574.3139451 AI Education ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest Winner Event Report Hot Topics Links Humor SIGAI website: http://sigai.acm.org/ Newsletter: http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/ AI Impact Blog: http://sigai.acm.org/ai-matters/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/acm sigai/ AI News Edition DOI: 10.1145/3137574 Opinion Paper Precis´ Join SIGAI Spotlight Students $11, others $25 For details, see http://sigai.acm.org/ Video or Image Benefits: regular, student Details at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters Also consider joining ACM. Our mailing list is open to all. Submit to AI Matters! We’re accepting articles and announce- ments now for future issues. Details on the submission process are available at http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. AI Matters Editorial Board Eric Eaton, Editor-in-Chief, U. Pennsylvania Amy McGovern, Editor-in-Chief, U. Oklahoma Sanmay Das, Washington Univ. in Saint Louis Alexei Efros, Univ. of CA Berkeley Susan L. Epstein, The City Univ. of NY Yolanda Gil, ISI/Univ. of Southern California Doug Lange, U.S. Navy Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, Univ. of WI Madison Contact us: [email protected] 2 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2017 Welcome to AI Matters, Volume 3, Issue 3 Eric Eaton, Co-Editor (University of Pennsylvania; [email protected]) Amy McGovern, Co-Editor (University of Oklahoma; [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3137574.3137575 Welcome to the third issue in our third year of Thanks for reading! Don’t forget to send your AI Matters! In the spring, ACM SIGAI spon- ideas and future submissions to AI Matters! sored a student essay contest on the “Re- sponsible Use of AI Technologies.” This issue features the first set of winning essays from Eric Eaton is a Co-Editor the contest, with the second set of winning es- of AI Matters. He is a fac- says to appear in the next issue. ulty member at the Uni- In addition to having their essay appear in AI versity of Pennsylvania in Matters, the contest winners received either the Department of Com- monetary prizes or one-on-one Skype ses- puter and Information Sci- sions with leading AI researchers. The stu- ence, and in the Gen- dents reported exceptional experiences: eral Robotics, Automa- tion, Sensing, and Per- I just had an absolutely phenomenal con- ception (GRASP) lab. His versation with Eric Horvitz. Really so research is in machine spectacular. Thank you so so so much for learning and AI, with applications to robotics, enabling this to happen. .... This was such sustainability, and medicine. a privilege and wonderful experience. Amy McGovern is a Co- It was great talking to [Peter Norvig] and Editor of AI Matters. She we discussed a broad range of topics from is an Associate Profes- Autonomous Weapons, changes in the sor of computer science job market caused by automation to AI at the University of Okla- techniques to help people programming. homa and an adjunct as- It was very inspiring to talk to him! sociate professor of me- teorology. She directs Speaking of leading researchers, this issue’s the Interaction, Discovery, AI Interviews column highlights Maja Mataric,´ Exploration and Adapta- the Vice Dean for Research and the Direc- tion (IDEA) lab. Her re- tor of the Robotics and Autonomous Systems search focuses on machine learning and Center at the Univ. of Southern California. data mining with applications to high-impact In AI news, this issue includes the 2016-2017 weather. ACM SIGAI Activity Report, which summa- rizes the annual activities of the SIGAI, re- flections on The 50 Years of the ACM Tur- ing Award Celebration by two student SIGAI scholars, and a report on the new China chap- ter of SIGAI. The (buzz)word of this issue is multi-agent path finding. “What’s that?” you say. Well, you can read all about it in the AI Buzzwords Ex- Submit to AI Matters! plained column. Or, if deep learning is more We’re accepting articles and announce- your thing, then check out the AI Education ments for future issues. Details on column on resources for teaching and learn- the submission process are available at ing about deep neural networks. http://sigai.acm.org/aimatters. Copyright c 2017 by the author(s). 3 AI MATTERS, VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 SUMMER 2017 AI Events Michael Rovatsos (University of Edinburgh; [email protected]) DOI: 10.1145/3137574.3137576 This section features information about up- niques, and tools for automating the analysis, coming events relevant to the readers of AI design, implementation, testing, and mainte- Matters, including those supported by SIGAI. nance of large software systems. ASE 2017 We would love to hear from you if you are are features high quality contributions describing organizing an event and would be interested significant, original, and unpublished results. in cooperating with SIGAI, or if you have announcements relevant to SIGAI. For more information about conference support visit 9th International Joint Conference on sigai.acm.org/activities/requesting sponsor- Computational Intelligence ship.html. (IJCCI 2017) Funchal, Portugal, November 1-3, 2017 International Conference on www.ijcci.org Computational Approaches to The purpose of the International Joint Confer- Diversity in Interaction and Meaning ence on Computational Intelligence (IJCCI) is to bring together researchers, engineers and San Servolo/Venice, Italy, October 7-9, 2017 practitioners interested on the field of Compu- www.essence-network.com/essence-final- tational Intelligence both from theoretical and conference application perspectives. Four simultaneous Diversity-awareness, understood as the ca- tracks will be held covering different aspects pability of an intelligent system to take the of Computational Intelligence, including evolu- heterogeneity of human or artificial agents it tionary computation, fuzzy computation, neu- is interacting with into account when making ral computation and cognitive and hybrid sys- decisions, has been researched by many tems. The connection of these areas in all communities across several disciplines in the their wide range of approaches and applica- past, including semantic technologies, mul- tions forms the International Joint Conference tiagent systems, knowledge representation on Computational Intelligence. and reasoning, and NLP. This conference will provide a forum for leading experts from the above (and other) areas to discuss key CRA Summit on Technology and Jobs research issues surrounding diversity-aware Washington DC, USA, December 12, 2017 AI. Participation is by invitation only, and cra.org/events/summit-technology-jobs/ financial support is available – please con- The goal of the summit is to put the issue of tact [email protected] if you are technology and jobs on the national agenda in interested in attending. an informed and deliberate manner. 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