AAAI News AAAI News Spring News from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI Announces The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Holte, Ariel Felner, Guni Sharon, Robot (Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Nathan R. Sturtevant) New Senior Member! Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dirk Hähnel, Gerhard Lakemeyer, Dirk Schulz, Wal- AAAI-16 Outstanding AAAI congratulates Wheeler Ruml ter Steiner, and Sebastian Thrun) Student Paper Award (University of New Hampshire, USA) Toward a Taxonomy and Computa- Boosting Combinatorial Search on his election to AAAI Senior Member tional Models of Abnormalities in through Randomization (Carla P. status. This honor was announced at Images (Babak Saleh, Ahmed Elgam- Gomes, Bart Selman, and Henry the recent AAAI-16 Conference in mal, Jacob Feldman, Ali Farhadi) Phoenix. Senior Member status is Kautz) designed to recognize AAAI members Burgard and colleagues were honored IAAI-16 Innovative who have achieved significant accom- for significant contributions to proba- Application Awards plishments within the field of artificial bilistic robot navigation and the inte- Each year the AAAI Conference on intelligence. To be eligible for nomina- gration with high-level planning Innovative Applications selects the tion for Senior Member, candidates methods, while Gomes, Selman, and recipients of the IAAI Innovative must be consecutive members of AAAI Kautz were recognized for their signifi- Application Award. These deployed for at least five years and have been cant contributions to the area of auto- application case study papers must active in the professional arena for at mated reasoning and constraint solv- describe deployed applications with least ten years. ing through the introduction of measurable benefits that include some randomization and restarts into com- aspect of AI technology. The applica- plete solvers. Wolfram Burgard and Congratulations to tion needs to have been in production Carla Gomes presented invited talks use by its final end-users for sufficient- the 2016 AAAI Award during the conference in recognition ly long so that the experience in use of this honor. Winners! can be meaningfully collected and For more information about nomi- reported. The 2016 winners were as fol- Tom Dietterich, AAAI President, nations for AAAI 2017 Awards, please lows: Manuela Veloso, AAAI Past President contact Carol Hamilton at hamil- and Awards Committee Chair, and Rao [email protected]. Deploying PAWS: Field Optimization Kambhampati, AAAI President-Elect, of the Protection Assistant for Wildlife presented the AAAI Awards in February AAAI-16 Outstanding Security (Fei Fang, Thanh H. Nguyen, at AAAI-16 in Phoenix. Paper Awards Rob Pickles, Wai Y. Lam, Gopalasamy R. Clements, Bo An, Amandeep Singh, AAAI Classic Paper Award This year, AAAI's Conference on Artifi- Milind Tambe, Andrew Lemieux) cial Intelligence honored the following The 2016 AAAI Classic Paper Award Ontology Re-Engineering: A Case two papers, which exemplify high was given to the authors of the two Study from the Automotive Industry standards in technical contribution papers deemed most influential from (Nestor Rychtyckyj, Baskaran Sankara- the Fifteenth National Conference on and exposition by regular and student narayanan, P Sreenivasa Kumar, Deep- Artificial Intelligence, held in 1998 in authors. ak Khemani, Venkatesh Raman) Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The 2016 AAAI-16 Outstanding Paper Award Deploying nEmesis: Preventing Food- recipients of the AAAI Classic Paper Bidirectional Search That Is Guaran- borne Illness by Data Mining Social Award were: teed to Meet in the Middle (Robert C. Media (Adam Sadilek, Henry Kautz, Copyright © 2016, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved. ISSN 0738-4602 SPRING 2016 109 AAAI News Lauren DiPrete, Brian Labus, Eric Port- man, Jack Teitel, Vincent Silenzio) Special Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Blue Sky Awards AAAI-16, in cooperation with the CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC), honored three papers in the Senior Member track that presented ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new I CWSM directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new method- ologies. The recipients of the 2016 Blue Sky Idea travel awards, sponsored by the CCC, were as follows: Indefinite Scalability for Living Com- Please Join Us for ICWSM-16 putation (David H. Ackley) in Cologne, Germany! Embedding Ethical Principles in Col- lective Decision Support Systems (Joshua Greene, Francesca Rossi, John The Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media will be Tasioulas, Kristen Brent Venable, Brian held May 17–20 at Maternushaus and GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Williams) Sciences in Cologne, Germany. This interdisciplinary conference is a forum Five Dimensions of Reasoning in the for researchers in computer science and social science to come together to Wild (Don Perlis) share knowledge, discuss ideas, exchange information, and learn about cut- ting-edge research in diverse fields with the common theme of online social 2016 AI Video Competition media. This overall theme includes research in new perspectives in social Winners theories, as well as computational algorithms for analyzing social media. ICWSM is a singularly fitting venue for research that blends social science The tenth annual AI video competi- and computational approaches to answer important and challenging ques- tion was held during AAAI-16 and sev- tions about human social behavior through social media while advancing eral winning videos were honored dur- computational tools for vast and unstructured data. ing the awards presentation. Videos were nominated for awards in six cate- ICWSM-16 will include a lively program of technical talks and posters, gories, and winners received a invited presentations, and keynote talks by Lise Getoor (University of Cal- “Shakey” award during a special award ifornia, Santa Cruz) and Amr Goldberg (Stanford Graduate School of Busi- ceremony at the conference. Our ness). thanks go to Sabine Hauert and Charles Isbell for all their work on this Workshops and Tutorials event. The winners of the three awards The ICWSM Workshop program will continue in 2016, and the Tutorial Pro- were as follows: gram will return. Both will be held on the first day of the conference, May Best Video 17. For complete details about the workshop program, please see Machine Learning Techniques for www.icwsm.org/2016/program/workshop. Reorchestrating the European Anthem (François Pachet, Pierre Roy, Mathieu Registration Is Now Open! Ramona, Marco Marchini, Gaetan Registration information is available at the ICWSM-16 website Hadjeres, Emmanuel Deruty, Benoit (www.icwsm.org/2016/attending/registration). The early registration dead- Carré, Fiammetta Ghedini) line is March 25, and the late registration deadline is April 15. Best Robot Video For full details about the conference program, please visit the ICWSM-16 A Sea of Robots (Anders Lyhne Chris- website (icwsm. org) or write to [email protected]. tensen, Miguel Duarte, Vasco Costa, Tiago Rodrigues, Jorge Gomes, Fer- nando Silva, Sancho Oliveira) Best Student Video Deep Neural Networks Are Easily Fooled (Anh Nguyen, Jason Yosinski, Jeff Clune) 110 AI MAGAZINE AAAI News Congratulations to the 2016 AAAI Fellows! Each year a small number of fellows are recognized for their unusual distinction in the profession and for their sus- tained contributions to the field for a decade or more. An official dinner and ceremony were held in their honor during AAAI-16 in Phoenix, Arizona. Giuseppe De Giacomo (University of Rome La Sapienza, Maja J. Mataric (University of Southern California, USA) Italy) For significant contributions to the advancement of multi- For significant contributions to the field of knowledge rep- robot coordination, learning in human-robot systems, and resentation and reasoning, and applications to data integra- socially assistive robotics. tion, ontologies, planning, and process synthesis and verifi- Eric Poe Xing (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) cation. For significant contributions to statistical machine learning, Daniel D. Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) its theoretical analysis, new algorithms for learning proba- For significant contributions to machine learning and robot- bilistic models, and applications of these to important prob- ics, including algorithms for perception, planning, and lems in biology, social network analysis, natural language motor control processing and beyond; and to the development of new architecture, system platform, and theory for distributed Bing Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) machine learning programs on large scale applications. For significant contributions to data mining and develop- ment of widely used sentiment analysis, opinion spam Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China) detection, and Web mining algorithms. For significant contributions to ensemble methods and learning from multi-labeled and partially-labeled data. The 2016 AAAI Distinguished Service Award The 2016 AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual for extraordinary service to the AI com- munity. The AAAI Awards Committee is pleased to announce that this year's recipient is Maria Gini (University of Minnesota). Professor Gini is being recognized for her outstanding contributions to the field of artificial intel- ligence through sustained service leading AI societies, journals, and conferences; men- toring colleagues; and working to increase participation of women