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#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...