Founded in 1979, AAAI is an international, nonprofit, scientific society devoted to promote research in, and responsible use of Artificial Intelligence.

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Andrew Ng is the winner of the 2022 AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award for outstanding contributions to machine learning research and its application to significant real-world problems, and to the democratization of AI through free online education. #AAAI2022
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AAAI is delighted to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, CSP, Mult-Agent Systems, Semantic Web, NLP, Vision, Deep Learning and HRI. These new fellows will be inducted at #AAAI2020 in New York.
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AAAI is thrilled to announce the election of ten new Fellows for their lasting contributions to the breadth of #AI, including Planning, RL, Robotics, NLP, CBR and Vision The new fellows will be inducted (astrally) and felicitated (with secret hand-shake etc) during #AAAI2021🥳🎉
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We are thrilled to announce Regina Barzilay of @MIT_CSAIL won the 1st $1 million AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity for her ML models for antibiotics and early breast cancer detection. Congrats Dr. Barzilay! aaai.org/Pressroom/Releases/…
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AAAI is delighted to announce the elevation of these nine members to the AAAI Senior Member status. The 2021 cohort made significant contributions to multiple areas of #AI. They come from both academic and industrial labs in multiple continents. Congratulations!🥳
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Fantastic night of @TheOfficialACM awards: ACM/AAAI Allen Newell award to Henry Kautz presented by AAAI President @yolandagil; Turing Award to Yoshua Bengio, @ylecun , and @geoffreyhinton ; ACM Dissertation Award to @chelseabfinn for "Learning to Learn with Gradients". Congrats!
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“If we truly reach AI, it will let us know.” -@Kasparov63
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What a crowd! #AAAI24
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AAAI mourns the passing of #AI pioneer Nils Nilsson. Nilsson was a leader of the SRI Shakey project, and is known for A* search and the STRIPS planner. Nilsson wrote the first influential textbook on AI. He was a founding fellow of AAAI, and served as AAAI president (82-83).
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Panel discussion with Yoshua Bengio, @ylecun, @geoffreyhinton and moderated by Leslie Kaelbling.
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The 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26), will be held in Singapore at The Singapore EXPO, January 20-27, 2026. The Main Track of the Technical Program will take place January 22-25, 2026. ➡️ Please note the updated timeline for AAAI-26 abstracts and paper submissions. May 27, 2025 |Open Review submission site opens for author registration June 3, 2025 | Open Review submission site opens for paper submission July 25, 2025 | Abstracts due at 11:59 PM UTC-12 August 1, 2025 | Full papers due at 11:59 PM UTC-12 August 4, 2025 | Supplementary material and code due by 11:59 PM UTC-12 September 8, 2025 | Notification of Phase 1 rejections September 28-30, 2025 | Author feedback window November 3, 2025 | Notification of final acceptance or rejection (Main Technical Track) November 13, 2025 | Submission of camera-ready files (Main Technical Track)
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Seats are filling up to hear from this year’s Turing Award winners! #AAAI20
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Stuart Russell says the 4th edition is coming soon!
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We are pleased to announce the 2021 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner. Congratulations to Shibani Santurkar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her work entitled Machine Learning Beyond Accuracy: A Features Perspective On Model Generalization. And congratulations to Honorable Mention Bryan Wilder, Harvard University for his work entitled AI for Population Health: Melding Data and Algorithms on Networks. Learn more: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awa…
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We're excited to announce the $1 million AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity! More information coming soon. aaai.org/Awards/squirrel-awa…
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We are pleased to announce the results of the recent Executive Council election: @frossi_t (IBM Research, USA) has been elected to serve as President-Elect for two years, followed by two years as President, and finally two years as Past President.
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AAAI is delighted to announce the election of eight new fellows (to be inducted at #AAAI2018) Nancy Amato (TAMU), Regina Barzilay (MIT) Marie desJardins (UMBC) Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC) Dinesh Manocha (UNC) Joelle Pineau (McGill) Amit Sheth (Wright State) Gaurav Sukhatme (USC)
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📢 Attention members! 📢 The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-23), Washington, DC is February 7 - 14.
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We're pleased to announce the launch of a new website, AIhub.org, aimed at connecting the AI community to the public and improving public understanding so that everyone can have a meaningful discussion about the deployment of AI in society. @aihuborg
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We are pleased to announce that the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 20-28, 2024. #AAAI24 will be an in-person conference. Full details ➡️ aaai.org/aaai-conference/
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AAAI is delighted to announce the election of seven new Fellows, to be inducted at #AAAI2019 in Hawaii. #AI Vincent Conitzer, Duke Luc De Raedt, KU Leuven Kristen Grauman, UT Austin Charles Isbell, GA Tech Huan Liu, Arizona State Jiebo Luo, U Rochester Peter Stuckey, Monash U
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Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence are now available to review online. The proceedings have been published in 11 consecutive issues which are all available here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/… #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AAAI22
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➡️ Breaking news! The AAAI Executive Council is thrilled to announce that AAAI-26 will be held in the vibrant city of Singapore! This marks a significant departure from our traditional North American venues and provides an amazing opportunity for AAAI to convene in a location that all authors can attend. Singapore is a global hub for business, culture, and innovation, and offers a unique blend of modern amenities and rich cultural heritage. We look forward to seeing you in Singapore in 2026.
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AAAI's 2024 proceedings are now published! ➡️ These are the largest proceedings in AAAI's history, consisting of 21 issues containing 2,872 articles spanning a total of 23,861 pages. All issues are accessible from: bit.ly/43Qcy2J
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Congratulations on another successful conference! Amazing time at #AAAI24!
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The 2020 AAAI/ACM-SIGAI Dissertation Award recognizes superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence. Congratulations to Noam Brown for his work on Equilibrium Finding for Large Adversarial Imperfect-Information Games. #AAAI2022
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AAAI is delighted to announce the elevation of these 12 members to the AAAI Senior Member status. The 2020 cohort made significant contributions to multiple areas of #AI. They come from both academic and industrial labs based in China, India, Israel, UK and USA. Congratulations!
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Aloha! #AAAI2019 is in full swing in balmy Oahu! The main conference starts tomorrow. Plenary sessions will be live-streamed #AAAI19 vimeo.com/313855466
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AAAI is delighted to announce that Milind Tambe, Harvard University/Google Research is this years’ recipient of the AAAI Award for AI for the Benefit of Humanity. The award recognizes the positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. Milind will speak on Thursday February 22nd and the award will be presented on Saturday February 24th at AAAI-24. For full information about the award, please see: aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awa….
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.@rao2z wants to Make AI Great Again at #AAAI2020debate #AAAI20
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The 36th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence is underway. #AAA!2022 promotes research in artificial intelligence (AI) and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in affiliated disciplines. aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-22…
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In less the two weeks, the Turing Award winners present at #AAAI20. Are you attending? If so, are there topics you hope @ylecun, @geoffreyhinton, or Yoshua Bengio might address?
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Researchers who have served in leadership positions in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have come together to provide a balanced perspective on managing the progress in the field. ➡️ Read the full article here: aaai.org/working-together-on…
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Congratulations to the new AAAI Senior Members!
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🎉The AAAI Fellows Selections Committee is happy to announce the list of newly elected AAAI Fellows for 2025: Maria-Florina (Nina) Balcan Mohit Bansal J. Christopher Beck Emma Brunskill Yixin Chen Ernest Davis Emilio Ferrara Yun Raymond Fu Gal Kaminka Kate Larson Karen Myers Sriraam Natarajan Roberto Navigli Balaraman Ravindran Hui Xiong Ming-Hsuan Yang AAAI will celebrate the newly elected Fellows at the awards ceremony during AAAI-25. Congratulations to all the 2025 Fellows for this well-deserved honor!
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Yoshua Bengio mentioning system 1 and system 2 learning during his keynote at #AAAI20. #AAAI2020
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#AAAI2022 important deadlines: - abstract due: August 30 - submission due: September 8 - notification: November 29 - conference date: February 22 - March 1, 2022 aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-22… #AAAI22
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The AAAI-19 Call for Papers is now available at aaai.org/aaai19/. Submissions begin July 1, 2018. Abstracts are due September 1, 2018 (papers due September 5). #AAAI2019
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As a scientific society, AAAI is against the violence against Black people and the systemic racism that has gone unaddressed for too long. Please read in full, the AAAI Statement Condemning Racism and Calling to Action: aaai.org/Organization/cta-ag…
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Congratulations to Milind Tambe from @Harvard and Google Research for winning the 2023 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize at #AAI23. aaai.org/milind-tambe-of-har…
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#AAAI20 has begun! Workshop schedule can be found here: aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20… AI Ethics and Society Schedule is here: aies-conference.com/2020/sch… Tutorials schedule is here: aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20… And the main program can be found here: aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20…
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The 2024 AAAI Spring Symposium Series is off to a wonderful start. This year's event is being held at Stanford University. Here are some pictures from the first poster session. #AAAISpringSymposium
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The 2022 AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes extraordinary service to the community. This year's recipient is Thomas Dietterich for his contributions to the field of AI through roles including president of AAAI and the International Machine Learning Society. #AAAI2022
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The Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held on February 7–14, 2023 in Washington, D.C., USA. Proceedings are now available online: bit.ly/3CT1OUg
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#AAAI23 is officially underway! Speakers and attendees from all over the world convened in Washington D.C. yesterday for a whole week of artificial intelligence demonstration and discussion. 📸: rhlphoto.com
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Day 5 of #AAAI23 was capped off with an evening keynote by @AnimaAnandkumar, @Caltech & @nvidia, entitled Accelerating Science: Neural Operators for Learning on Function Spaces. 📸: rhlphoto.com
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So many people came together for tonight’s great AI history panel! @rao2z, Bart Selman, @feishaAI, @Kasparov63, @frossi_t, @murraycampbell, Carla Gomes, Amy Greenwald, @k_leyton_brown, @MichaelHBowling, David Silver, & Hiroaki Kitano
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Congratulations to Geoff Hinton (AAAI Fellow), Yoshua Bengio and Yann Lecun for receiving this year's Turing Award! nyti.ms/2UXfl5T
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Congratulations to Cynthia Rudin for pioneering scientific work in the area of interpretable and transparent AI systems, the advocacy for these features in highly sensitive areas, and serving as a role model for researchers and practitioners. #AAAI2022
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We are delighted to introduce Interactive AI Magazine! Interactive AI Magazine provides online access to articles and columns from AI Magazine, as well as news and articles from AI Topics and other materials from AAAI. interactiveaimag.org/
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🚨AAAI-26 Call for Papers🚨 AAAI-26 will in Singapore from January 20 to January 27, 2026. Abstract deadline: July 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM UTC-12 | Full paper deadline: August 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM UTC-12. Learn more: bit.ly/4jXNTQf
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We recognize all 2022 AAAI Fellows who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and unusual distinction in the profession. #AAAI2023 #2023AAAIFellow
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Nominations sought for (the first ever) AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award. Deadline: November 15, 2019. One nomination per Ph.D. granting institution anywhere in the world. Details below. Spread the word.
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⭐New this year⭐ #AAAI23 will feature a special track on Safe and Robust Artificial Intelligence (SRAI), focusing on the theory and practice of safety and robustness in AI-based systems. The call for papers will follow the regular AAAI-23 submission procedure.
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AAAI is excited to announce that AAAI-23 will be in-person after a two-year hiatus. Please join us February 7-14, 2023 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC. The early registration deadline for AAAI-23/IAAI-23/EAAI-23 is January 5. aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-23…
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One of the largest AAAI gatherings in recent years is about to start tomorrow @ NOLA! Six packed days of #AI, with many exciting events including the first AIES conference. aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-18… See you all there. Tweet away with official hashtag: #AAAI2018
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We'd like to recognize all our 2023 AAAI Senior Members who have all achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. #AAAI23 #AAAI2023SeniorMembers
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Thank you to all the attendees and speakers who traveled from all over the globe to make #AAAI23 a huge success. We hope you enjoyed the conference as much as we did. See you in Vancouver, BC next year! 📸: rhlphoto.com
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@yolandagil⁩ giving the presidential address at #AAAI20. Will AI write the scientific papers of the future?
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We are pleased to announce the new President Elect of AAAI: ⭐️Stephen Smith (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) aaai.org/Pressroom/Releases/…
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AAAI and ACM/SIGAI invite Ph.D students to apply for the Twenty-Eighth Doctoral Consortium. The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a workshop on February 7-8, 2023, immediately before the start of the main AAAI conference.
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Having some fun spelling out AAAI at #AAAI24!
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Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun, Hendrik Dahlkamp, David Stavens, Sven Strohband are the winners of the 2022 AAAI Classic Paper Award for "Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge with an AI Robot.” Congratulations! #AAAI2022
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@ylecun⁩ explaining deep learning at his keynote during #AAAI20. #AAAI2020
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Thank you to the organizers, the volunteers and the sponsors who made this year’s great conference happen! @conitzer @feishaAI @yolandagil @frossi_t
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If you know someone who's #ArtificialIntelligence work is helping to make the world a better place, please nominate them for the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity! aaai.org/Awards/Squirrel-AI/
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Check out the exciting program for the first AAAI/ACM conference on AI Ethics & Society! aies-conference.com/program/ aies-conference.com/accepted…#AAAI2018 opening reception will be open to #AIES attendees. Onsite registration still open.
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AAAI is a signatory to the joint statement of the Computing Research Community opposing House plans to increase taxes on graduate students in the US (coordinated by @CRAtweets )
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Alice Oh is a Professor in the School of Computing at KAIST; her major research area is at the intersection of machine learning and computational social science. She will be giving a keynote on “The importance of multiple languages and multiple cultures in NLP research”. #ICWSM22
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Congratulations to 2024 AAAI Classic Paper Recipients Brian Ziebart, Andrew Maas, Andrew Bagnell, and Anind Dey. Their paper entitled
Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning will be recognized at the AAAI-24 awards ceremony on Saturday February 24
for introducing entropy regularization to Reinforcement Learning that led to improvements in predictive accuracy of forecasting, imitation learning, decision making, and Human-AI alignment. aaai.org/about-aaai/aaai-awa…
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Know someone who's work in AI has helped improve the world in some way? Nominate them for the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity! #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning aaai.org/Awards/squirrel-ai-…
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We couldn’t be more excited for #AAAI20, less than two weeks away! But we're also monitoring the coronavirus situation & working with the Hilton, which follows CDC procedures, as well as NY state and city agencies. We’ll post info here and on the website as we learn more.
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AAAI and ACM SIGAI announce the continuation of the Joint AAAI/ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Award to recognize and encourage superior research and writing by doctoral candidates in artificial intelligence.
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Congratulations to the winners of the best demo! #AAAI20
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The AAAI community is deeply saddened and mourns the loss of Professor Fahiem Bacchus, an AAAI fellow, who passed away September 22. Fahiem was a brilliant researcher and a kind person. Heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and all who knew him. He will be greatly missed.
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🚨Calls for Papers and Proposals 🚨 AAAI-25 is February 25 - March 4 in Philadelphia, PA and we invite your participation in various calls open for paper and proposal submissions. Please head over to our website to see the specific call for details on where and how to submit, along with important deadlines: ➡️ Bridge Program ➡️ Demonstrations ➡️ Diversity & Inclusion ➡️ Doctoral Consortium ➡️ EAAI ➡️ IAAI ➡️ Journal Track ➡️ New Faculty Highlights ➡️ Senior Member Presentation Track ➡️ Student Abstracts & Posters ➡️ Tutorials and Lab Forum ➡️ Undergraduate Consortium ➡️ Workshop Program aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaa…
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The 2022 AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, accompanied by a prize of $1,000,000, recognizes positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. #AAAI2022
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. @RealAAAI is launching "AI for K-12" initiative, in collaboration with @csteachersorg and @ai4allorg.
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We had a wonderful time at AAAI-24 in Vancouver and we hope you did too! Here is the full photo gallery: bit.ly/3PhVOv0
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Scenes from the Opening Reception of AAAI-24. We are so excited to see everyone gathered for this annual event. AAAI-24 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, exhibits, and more!
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Congratulations to the winners of this year’s winners of the Outstanding Paper Award! #AAAI20
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Technical program for this year's #AAAI20. Includes #IAAI20 (Industrial Applications of AI), #EAAI20 (Educational Advances in AI), #AISI20 (AI for Social Impact), Diversity & Inclusion Sessions, and AI in Practice. aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20…
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Congratulations to David Abel (A Theory of Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning) and Abhishek Das (Building Agents that Can See, Talk, and Act) for Honorable Mentions for the 2020 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award. #AAAI2022
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Congratulations to Barry O'Sullivan, University College Cork, Ireland, for significant contributions to constraint programming and outstanding leadership in the AI community. #AAAI2022 #2022AAAIFellow
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AAAI Members: 🗳️Election Time!!🗳️ President Candidates: Francesca Rossi & Qiang Yang Council candidates: Edith Elkind, Susan Epstein, Chris Geib, Laura Hiatt, Martin Michalowski, Barry O'Sullivan, Balaraman Ravindran & Kartik Talamadupula Ballots in the mail. Statements below:
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We had a great turnout at #AIES2023! Thank you to everyone who was in attendance. #AAAI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
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Thank you @conitzer & @feishaAI for your *monumental* undertaking! The #AI research community owes you a tremendous debt of gratitude. 🙏🙏 Hope you and the workflow chairs get a good night's sleep! (The excitement of conference planning will begin all too soon.. )
AAAI 2020 decisions are out! (CMT is OK so far, or I wouldn't be posting this :-) ) @feishaAI and I are extremely thankful for the enormous community effort, especially our workflow chairs who did amazing work. Registration opens soon, stay tuned! @RealAAAI #AAAI2020
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Between Feb 7 and 8, over 70 researchers will teach 23 tutorials as part of the #AAAI20 Tutorial Forum. Topics will cover everything from Explainable AI to Probabilistic Circuits to Creative and Artistic Writing via Text Generation. aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI-20…
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Today, we welcomed the president-elect Bart Selman and the new councillors , Cristina Conati, Eric Eaton, Ayanna Howard & Ariel Procaccia. Yolanda Gil takes the presidency, and Rao Kambhampati the past-presidency. Thanks to Tom Dietterich for six years of leadership & service!
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Congrats to the four newly elected AAAI Councillors: Yiling Chen @Harvard, Judy Goldsmith @universityofky, Chad Jenkins @UMich and Brian Scassellati @Yale!! They will serve for three years starting summer 2019.
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Congratulations to Ulrich Junker for the Classical Paper Award!
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🔔REMINDER🔔 Call for papers for Thirty-Fifth Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-23). We are seeking papers describing highly innovative realizations of AI technology. The conference showcases successful applications & novel uses of #AI.
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#AAAI2018 Call for Papers Released . Abstract/Paper deadlines 9/8 & 9/11. Submission length increased! aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aa…
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We love seeing #AAAI23 attendees and speakers network and discuss #AI in between presentations and sessions. 📸: rhlphoto.com
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AAAI would like to announce a new way to release code and trained models associated with accepted papers. Through the use of an AI Pubs RAIL License from the RAIL Initiative, authors can elect to release their code and trained models under terms that permit free and open access but are subject to usage restrictions. Full details: aaai.org/rail-license/
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Happening now... The Right Attention Is Not All You Need. #AAAI20
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A busy morning of registration. We are excited to welcome everyone to #AAAI24!
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#AAAI23 conference highlights! Saturday featured a wide variety of events including keynotes, poster sessions, technical and education sessions, and opportunities for networking and discussing #AI with peers. 📸: rhlphoto.com/
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Opening reception is full swing! #AAAI20 #AAAI2020
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