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Join Us for AAAI-17 and Students Activities ior women in artificial intelligence. IAAI-17 in San Francisco! As part of its outreach to students, Breakfast with Champions will be held AAAI-17 will continue several special Tuesday morning, February 7. The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on programs specifically for students, Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-17) and including the Doctoral Consortium, AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair the Twenty-Ninth Conference on the Student Abstract Program, Lunch Innovative Applications of Artificial with a Fellow, and the Volunteer Pro - The AAAI/ACM SIGAI job fair grew to Intelligence (IAAI-17) will be held Feb - gram, in addition to the following: over 30 participating employers and hundreds of job seekers in 2016. The ruary 4-9 at the Hilton San Francisco Student Reception Union Square, San Francisco, Califor - job fair is a place for students and pro - AAAI will welcome all students to nia, USA. San Francisco is the gateway fessionals looking for internships or AAAI-17 by hosting an evening stu - to exploring Northern California, from jobs to meet with representatives from dent reception on Saturday, February the wine country to the iconic Golden companies and academia in an infor - 4. Although the reception is especially Gate Bridge, and more. It is also home mal “meet-and-greet” atmosphere. If beneficial to new students at the con - to the exploding Bay Area AI industry, you are representing a company, ference, all are welcome! Please join us and just up the road from the Silicon research organization or university and and make all the newcomers welcome! Valley. San Francisco itself has an end - would like to participate in the job fair, less array of entertainment and cultur - AAAI-17 Educational Outreach please send an email with your contact al sites to explore. For local informa - information to [email protected] The Open House of recent years will be by January 8. The organizers of the tion, please visit the San Francisco replaced in 2017 by the EAAI-17 Educa - travel site at www.sftravel.com/. AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job Fair are Nathan tional Outreach Event, giving EAAI pre - Sturtevant (University of Denver, USA) Registration Is Open! senters a chance to teach other AAAI and William Yeoh (New Mexico State attendees a single outreach activity, University, USA). AAAI-17 Registration is now available which they in turn will perform with at aaai.org/aaai17, and online registra - local K-12 students. This program will AAAI / ACM SIGAI Job Market tion can be completed at regonline. run in conjunction with a paper session Electronic Bulletin Board com/aaai17. Complete tutorial and at EAAI-17, exploring ways to use AI to AAAI and ACM SIGAI are pleased to workshop information, as well as oth - improve teaching, learning and reten - continue the electronic job bulletin er special program information is avail - tion of students. This program aims to board at AAAI-17. Companies with job able at these sites. provide tools and outreach activities to opportunities, as well as job seekers, those AAAI participants who teach and Make Your Hotel Reservation will provide ads to populate an ongo - would like to bring them back to their ing kiosk display. Opportunities to Now! classroom or community. The program meet with job seekers will be arranged AAAI has reserved a block of rooms at will be held on Saturday, February 4, dynamically or through employer- the Hilton San Francisco Union Square just before the commencement of the sponsored events. at reduced conference rates. The cut- main EAAI-17 program. off date for conference rate reserva - tions is Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at Breakfast with Champions: A ICWSM 2017 Women’s Mentoring Event 5:00pm California time. Please see Comes to Canada www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/2017 AAAI will hold its third women’s men - /aaai17hotel.php for complete infor - toring event for students and junior Please join us for the Eleventh Interna - mation. women professionals to meet with sen - tional AAAI Conference on Weblogs

ior through social media while advanc - AAAI 2017 Spring Symposium Series ing computational tools for vast and AAAI is pleased to present the 2017 Spring Symposium Series, to be held Mon - unstructured data. day – Wednesday, March 27 –29, 2017, at Stanford University. The eight sym - Abstracts submissions for ICWSM posia are as follows: are due January 6. Papers, posters, and demos are due January 13. AI for the Social Good Eric Horvitz (Microsoft Research), Barbara Grosz (Harvard University), Amy Green - wald (Brown University), David Parkes (Harvard University), Carla Gomes (Cornell Member News — University), Stephen Smith (Carnegie Mellon University), Gregory Hager (Johns Hopkins University), Ann W. Drobnis (Computing Research Association), Nicole Martha Pollack Named Sintov (Ohio State University), Milind Tambe (University of Southern California), President of Cornell Amulya Yadav (University of Southern California), Fei Fang (Harvard Universit), Bryan Wilder (University of Southern California) AAAI congratulates AAAI Fellow and former President Martha Pollack on Computational Construction her recent appointment as the four - Grammar and Natural Language Understanding teenth President of Cornell University. Luc Steels (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Jerome Feldman (International Pollack, who is currently provost and Computer Science Institute) executive vice president for academic Computational Context: Why It’s Important, What It Means, affairs at the University of Michigan, and Can It Be Computed? will begin her term of office on April Ranjeev Mittu (Naval Research Laboratory); W.F. Lawless (Paine College); Don 17, 2017. Sofge (Naval Research Institute); David Aha (Naval Research Institute) Pollack is also a fellow of the Ameri - can Association for the Advancement Designing the User Experience of Machine Learning Systems of Science and the Association for Mike Kuniavsky (PARC), Elizabeth Churchill (Google), Molly Wright Steenson Computing Machinery and the Associ - (Carnegie Mellon University) ation for the Advancement of Artificial Interactive Multisensory Object Intelligence (AAAI). Her research has Perception for Embodied Agents been in the area of artificial intelli - gence, where she has published widely Vivian Chu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jivko Sinapov (University of Texas at Austin), Jeannette Bohg (MPI for Intelligent Systems), Sonia Chernova (Georgia on topics including automated plan - Institute of Technology), Andrea L. Thomaz (University of Texas at Austin) ning, natural-language processing, temporal reasoning and constraint sat - Learning from Observation of Humans isfaction. A particular focus of her Santiago Ontañón (Drexel University), Avelino J. González (University of Central work has been the design of intelligent Florida), José L. Montaña (University of Cantabria, Spain) technology to assist people with cogni - Science of Intelligence: Computational Principles of Natural and tive impairment, a topic on which she Artificial Intelligence testified before the United States Sen - ate Subcommittee on Aging in 2004. Gemma Roig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Xavier Boix (National Uni - In addition to receiving a number of versity of Singapore) awards for her research, Pollack has Well-Being AI: From Machine Learning to Subjective Oriented Computing been honored for her professional serv - Takashi Kido (Rikengenesis, Japan), Keiki Takadama, (The University of Electro- ice, for example, with the University of Communications, Japan) Michigan’s Sarah Goddard Power For additional information, and links to the supplementary websites for each Award in recognition of her efforts to symposium, please see www.aaai. org/Symposia/Spring/sss17.php. Material to increase the representation of and cli - be included in the technical reports of the symposium must be received by Jan - mate for women and underrepresented uary 25, 2017. The final registration deadline is February 24. Please contact minorities in science and engineering. AAAI at [email protected] with any questions. She has served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, as president of AAAI, as a member of and Social Media, to be held in Mon - online social media. This overall theme the Advisory Committee for the tréal, Québec Canada, May 15 –18. includes research in new perspectives National Science Foundation’s Com - 2017. This interdisciplinary conference in social theories, as well as computa - puter and Information Science and is a forum for researchers in computer tional algorithms for analyzing social Engineering Division, and a member science and social science to come media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting of the board of directors of the Com - together to share knowledge, discuss venue for research that blends social puting Research Association. ideas, ex change information, and learn science and computational approaches For more information, please see about cutting-edge research in diverse to answer important and challenging www.cornell.edu/president-search/. fields with the common theme of questions about human social behav -

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