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#AAAI2022 workshop round-up 3: design and manufacturing, and learning and reasoning

AIhub 22 Apr 2022

The organisers of two of the AAAI2022 workshops give us a summary of their events.

#AAAI2022 workshops round-up 2: operations research and decision optimisation

AIhub 06 Apr 2022

Hear from the organisers of two AAAI 2022 workshops who tell us their key takeaways from their events.

#AAAI2022 workshops round-up 1: AI to accelerate science and engineering, interactive machine learning, and health intelligence

AIhub 28 Mar 2022

The organisers of three of the AAAI2022 workshops tell us their key takeaways from their respective events.

Interview with Virginie Do – #AAAI2022 outstanding paper award winner

Lucy Smith 23 Mar 2022

Virginie tells us about work on fairness for personalized recommender systems that won the AAAI outstanding paper award.

#AAAI2022 invited talks – data-centric AI and robust deep learning

Lucy Smith 16 Mar 2022

Hear from Andrew Ng and Marta Kwiatkowska, two of the plenary speakers at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

#AAAI2022 invited talk – Cynthia Rudin on interpretable machine learning

Lucy Smith 09 Mar 2022

The winner of the AAAI Squirrel AI award talks about using interpretable models for real-world applications, such as power grids and medicine.

Bart Selman’s presidential address at #AAAI2022 – incomprehensible truths, fragile chains and hidden crystals

Lucy Smith 03 Mar 2022

The current AAAI president talks about the state of AI and highlights three examples of AI for the acceleration of scientific discovery.

#AAAI2022 in tweets – the conference in summary

AIhub 01 Mar 2022

Hear from participants and organisers as we highlight some of the awards, talks, tutorials, workshops and posters at AAAI2022.

monthly digest

AIhub monthly digest: February 2022 – AAAI 2022 in progress, the life of a dataset, and AI valentines

Lucy Smith 28 Feb 2022

Welcome to our monthly digest, where you can catch up with AI research, events and news from the month past.

Congratulations to the #AAAI2022 award winners

Lucy Smith 24 Feb 2022

The winners of the following AAAI awards were announced during the opening ceremony of the conference: outstanding paper, outstanding student paper, distinguished paper, and best demonstration.

#AAAI2022 in tweets – the conference is underway

AIhub 23 Feb 2022

This compilation of tweets gives a flavour of the conference so far, and highlights some forthcoming events.

What’s coming up at #AAAI2022?

Lucy Smith 15 Feb 2022

Find out about the talks, workshops, tutorials, and other events scheduled at AAAI this year, taking place from 22 February - 1 March.

Cynthia Rudin wins AAAI Squirrel AI Award

Lucy Smith 15 Oct 2021

Duke professor becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI.

AAAI 2021 Spring Symposium on Implementing AI Ethics

Marija Slavkovik 23 Apr 2021

Marija Slavkovik takes a look at AI ethics and reports on the recent AAAI symposium.

Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence – a summary from the co-chairs

Lisa Torrey and Michael Guerzhoy 23 Mar 2021

Find out more about the event and the activities that took place.

Daphne Koller: Digital learning coming to life – #AAAI2021 invited talk

Lucy Smith 11 Mar 2021

At AAAI 2021, Daphne Koller gave a plenary talk about digital learning. In this presentation she discussed the different motivations for online learning, what we know about effective learning, digital...

Tweet round-up from the second half of #AAAI2021

Lucy Smith 10 Feb 2021

You may have seen our tweet round-up from the first few days of the AAAI 35th conference on artificial intelligence. During the second part of the conference we've enjoyed further invited talks, inter...

#AAAI2021 invited talk – Regina Barzilay on deploying machine learning methods in cancer diagnosis and drug design

Lucy Smith 09 Feb 2021

In September 2020, Regina Barzilay was announced as the winner of the inaugural AAAI Squirrel AI award. Regina was formally presented with the prize during an award ceremony at the AAAI2021 conference...

Tweet round-up from the first few days of #AAAI2021

Lucy Smith 06 Feb 2021

The AAAI 35th conference on artificial intelligence started on 2 February. So far, we've been treated to some excellent invited talks, tutorial sessions, and diversity and inclusion events. The poster...

Congratulations to the #AAAI2021 best paper winners

Lucy Smith 05 Feb 2021

The AAAI-21 best paper awards were announced on Thursday 4th February during the opening ceremony of AAAI 2021. There were three best papers, three best paper runners-up, and six distinguished papers....

What’s coming up at #AAAI2021?

Lucy Smith 01 Feb 2021

The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI2021) starts on Tuesday 2 February and runs until Tuesday 9 February. Find out about some of the main events that are taking place throughout t...

Regina Barzilay wins $1M Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI award

MIT News 24 Sep 2020

Regina Barzilay (Picture Credit: Rachel Wu, MIT CSAIL) By Adam Conner-Simons For more than 100 years Nobel Prizes have been given out annually to recognize breakthrough achievements in chemistry...

Interview with Siddharth Bhatia: a new approach for anomaly detection

AIhub 01 May 2020

In work presented at AAAI-20 researchers from National University of Singapore, Carnegie Mellon University, and KAIST described their approach for anomaly detection in time-evolving graphs. In this in...

AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity

Lucy Smith 14 Apr 2020

The AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity is a new prize, to be awarded for the first time at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (A...

Will AI write the scientific papers of the future? – Yolanda Gil’s presidential address at #AAAI20

Lucy Smith 06 Apr 2020

Professor Yolanda Gil, AAAI President The Presidential Address at the AAAI conferences is always a much-anticipated event with the new President giving their take on an aspect of the field of artif...

#AAAI20 Turing Award session: Bengio, Hinton and LeCun talk about their research

Lucy Smith 26 Feb 2020

One of the highlights of the AAAI-20 conference this month was the special event featuring Turing Award winners, Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal and Mila), Geoffrey E. Hinton (Google, The Vector...

Interview with Vidal Alcázar – #AAAI20 award winner

Vidal Alcázar 25 Feb 2020

Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley receiving their honorable mention award at AAAI-20, New York. Photo credit: AAAI. Vidal Alcázar, Pat Riddle and Mike Barley received an honourable me...

Neural approximate dynamic programming for on-demand ride-pooling

Sanket Shah 19 Feb 2020

In this post Sanket Shah (Singapore Management University) writes about his ride-pooling journey, from Bangalore to AAAI-20, with a few stops in-between....

#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...

Springing into conferences (at the AAAI spring symposium)

Laura Gemmell 01 Jun 2019

In March of this year I was lucky to travel to my first academic conference (thanks very much to EPSRC Rise and AAAI). Feeling a little bit nervous, extremely jet-lagged, and completely in awe of Stan...