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#AAAI20 tweet round-up: Monday-Wednesday
Lucy Smith
13 Feb 2020
Monday to Wednesday at AAAI-20 saw a multitude of technical sessions, the exhibition and posters. In addition there were a number of interesting debates, invited talks and panels. Here are some tweets...
Watch the panel discussions and invited talks from #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
12 Feb 2020
If you weren’t able to attend the AAAI20 conference in New York you can catch some of the invited talks and panel sessions via the livestreamed videos. Featured events include Yolande Gil’s presid...
Congratulations to the #AAAI20 outstanding paper award winners
Lucy Smith
11 Feb 2020
The AAAI-20 outstanding paper awards were presented on Tuesday 11th February at the AAAI conference in New York. Awards and honourable mentions were given for: outstanding paper, outstanding student p...
#AAAI20 – a weekend in tweets
Lucy Smith
10 Feb 2020
It was a busy weekend at the 34th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Although the AAAI technical sessions didn’t start in earnest until the Sunday there were numerous workshops on Saturd...
Live coverage of #AAAI20
Lucy Smith
08 Feb 2020
The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20), held in New York, started yesterday (Friday 7 February) and runs until Wednesday 12 February. Our Managing Editor, Lucy Smith, will be a...
Using neural networks to “upscale” old films
Lucy Smith
06 Feb 2020
The famous short, silent film L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, produced by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1896, hit the news this week. AI developer Denis Shiryaev used a combination of Gig...
Launching AIhub.org – Our journey bringing together leading organisations to improve understanding of Artificial Intelligence
Sabine Hauert and Thomas G. Dietterich
27 Jan 2020
Four years ago, we (Tom Dietterich and Sabine Hauert) met at AAAI and started a discussion about how we could improve public understanding of artificial intelligence. Tom was leading AAAI at the time,...
USA releases proposed guidance for regulation of AI applications
Lucy Smith
20 Jan 2020
The United States Office of Science and Technology Policy has released draft guidance for regulation that it proposes agencies must adhere to when drawing up new AI regulations for the private sector...
NeurIPS outstanding paper awards
Michael Littman
20 Jan 2020
The NeurIPS outstanding paper awards highlight some of the most notable papers at the conference. Find out who won the awards and read summaries of their work below....
Sweden extending investment in AI
Lucy Smith
17 Jan 2020
It has been reported that Sweden is extending its investment in AI. An extra SEK 1.3 billion has been pledged that will extend the current programme by another three years, until 2029....
Yoshua Bengio and Gary Marcus debate AI
Lucy Smith
07 Jan 2020
In late December, the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) hosted a two-hour debate between Gary Marcus and Yoshua Bengio....
AI holidays 2019
Sabine Hauert
24 Dec 2019
Thanks to those that sent us AI-themed holiday videos, images, and stories. Here's a sample to get you into the spirit this season....
NeurIPS continues to grow in size and diversity initiatives
Allie McFadden
22 Dec 2019
It’s not common that an artificial intelligence conference sells out as fast as a music festival, but as the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference found out last year, it’s ce...
Watch the invited talks (and much more) from #NeurIPS2019
Sabine Hauert
13 Dec 2019
Couldn't make it to NeurIPS this week in Vancouver? Or simply unable to make your way to every exciting talk through the maze of 16k participants? Luckily, many of the sessions are available online.
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Live Coverage of #NeurIPS2019
Sabine Hauert
08 Dec 2019
The 33rd annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), happening this week in Vancouver, brings together more than 10k researchers and practitioners from all fields engaged in ...
Call for AI-themed holiday videos, art and more
AIhub
07 Dec 2019
That's right! You better not run, you better not hide, you better watch out for brand new AI-themed holiday material on AIhub!...
RoboNet: A dataset for large-scale multi-robot learning
BAIR blog
07 Dec 2019
By Sudeep Dasari
This post is cross-listed at the SAIL Blog and the CMU ML blog. In the last decade, we’ve seen learning-based systems provide transformative solutions for a wide range of percep...
Last month in tweets – October 2019
Nedjma Ousidhoum
07 Nov 2019
We have collected some of the month's most interesting tweets about AI....
#IJCAI2019 video competition
AIhub
16 Aug 2019
Nine videos were accepted to the IJCAI video competition. We'll update you on the winners as soon as we hear back from the conference. In the meantime - you can view the videos below or here....
#IJCAI2019 last days in tweets
Nedjma Ousidhoum
16 Aug 2019
#IJCAI2019 ended today. Besides talks, panel discussions, and presentations; the winners of this year's prestigious IJCAI awards shared their opinions about relevant future directions in the field....
#IJCAI2019 mini-interviews – Claus Aranha from University of Tsukuba
Rahul Divekar
14 Aug 2019
Meet Claus Aranha, Assistant Professor at the University of Tsukuba, Center of Artificial Intelligence Research (C-AIR)....
Marvin Minsky Medal for outstanding achievements in AI goes to Libratus team
IJCAI
13 Aug 2019
The team behind the Libratus program were today announced as the latest recipients of the Marvin Minsky Medal, given by the IJCAI organisation for Outstanding Achievements in AI. Libratus made headlin...
#IJCAI2019 main conference in tweets
Nedjma Ousidhoum
13 Aug 2019
The main IJCAI2019 conference started on August 13th. The organizers gave the opening remarks and statistics, and announced the award winners for this year....
#IJCAI2019 in tweets – tutorials and workshops day 2
Nedjma Ousidhoum
12 Aug 2019
Here's our daily update in tweets, live from IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau. Like yesterday, we'll be covering tutorials and workshops....
#IJCAI2019 in tweets – tutorials and workshops
Nedjma Ousidhoum
11 Aug 2019
The first two days at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau were focussed on workshops and tutorials. Here's an overview in tweets....
Live coverage of #IJCAI2019
AIhub
10 Aug 2019
IJCAI, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is happening from the 10th to 16th August in Macao, China. We'll be posting updates throughout the week thanks to our AIhub A...
Making sense of vision and touch: #ICRA2019 best paper award video and interview
AIhub
28 Jul 2019
PhD candidate Michelle A. Lee from the Stanford AI Lab won the best paper award at ICRA 2019 with her work "Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for...
#RoboCup2019 Rescue Rapidly Manufactured Robots Challenge #RMRC
Matej Veber
12 Jul 2019
I was at RoboCup last week in Sydney as part of the Junior League. Here's a quick video tour of RoboCup, and a behind the scenes look at the Rapidly Manufactured Robot Challenge (RMRC), which is part ...
#RoboCup2019 @Home finals
Maru Cabrera
08 Jul 2019
For the final stage of the @Home competition, the top 2 teams were selected in each of the sub-leagues (domestic, social and open platforms) to perform demos inside a 10 minute window followed by 5 mi...
#RoboCup2019 Standard Platform League Competition Day 3
Katie Genter
06 Jul 2019
The Standard Platform League's Competition Day 3 at RoboCup 2019 was busy with main competition games, mixed team games and a directional whistle challenge....
#RoboCup2019 @Home – 2nd round
Maru Cabrera
06 Jul 2019
After three test blocks, about half of the teams in all three sub-leagues advanced to the 2nd round of the competition....
#RoboCup2019 Standard Platform League Competition Day 2
Katie Genter
05 Jul 2019
The Standard Platform League's Competition Day 2 at RoboCup 2019 was busy with main competition games, mixed team games and an open challenge....
Live streams from #RoboCup2019 and daily podcasts
AIhub
05 Jul 2019
RoboCup.live is on the ground at #RoboCup2019 in Sydney and live streaming games. Check it out if you want to jump and cry with every goal....
#RoboCup2019 Standard Platform League Competition Day 1
Katie Genter
04 Jul 2019
Twenty teams are competing in the Standard Platform League (SPL) at RoboCup 2019 in Sydney this week. However, the experience and skills of the league's teams vary greatly, from six-time champion B-Hu...
#RoboCup2019 @Home – competition setup and first day
Maru Cabrera
04 Jul 2019
I'll be reporting three sub-leagues of RoboCup @Home (domestic standard, social, and open platform)....
Standard Platform League ready to kick off at #RoboCup2019
Katie Genter
03 Jul 2019
RoboCup 2019 in Sydney opens to the public tomorrow, but participants have already been preparing onsite for two days. There are fifteen RoboCup leagues that are grouped into five categories -- RoboCu...
