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Bulletin #4, September 2006
EditorialECAI 2006 was really excellent. We spent a week with lively discussions, very many good talks, lots of new ideas and a refreshing new and young AI scene - not to mention the sun and lake-side atmosphere. Thanks to the organizers and chairs, specifically Anna Perini, Paolo Traverso, Gerd Brewka and all the numerous others who helped in creating such a successful event. Special thanks goes to Silvia Coradeschi. As a conference chair she guided the whole conference and moderated a lively week in Trentino. After six years of hard work in the ECCAI board she leaves together with Uli Furbach the board. Many thanks to them for their long term engagement in all activities of ECCAI.Werner Horn, ECCAI Chair ECCAI conferencesECAI-06: 17th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence - including PAIS 2006: Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems - August 29- September 1, 2006, Riva del Garda, ItalyECAI-06 in Riva was very successful and we congratulate all those involved in organising it for an excellent job. The annual gathering of the European AI community was a great chance to learn about the latest technical developments, but also to meet other members of your field and the larger AI community. With more than 800 participants, ECAI-06 was very good: Excellent organization, interesting invited talks, impressive participation to the 31 workshops and the 4 tutorials, high percentage of registered students (41%) . Photos can be seen on the ecai-06 web page.IJCAI-07:Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence6-12 January, 2007 Hyderabad, India www.ijcai-07.org Theme: Artificial Intelligence and Its Benefits to Society… Conference Chair: Ramon Lopez de Mantaras ECCAI Fellows11 new ECCAI fellows were selected. Welcome to all of them!Grigorios Antoniou, Greece - FORTH Christian Bessiere, France - LIRMM, CNRS Patrick Doherty, Sweden - Linköping University Tom Eiter, Austria - Technical University of Vienna Floriana Esposito, Italy - University of Bari Malik Ghallab, France - LAAS-CNRS Lluís Godo, Spain - Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC) András Lörincz, Hungary - Eötvös Loránd University Sebastian Thrun, Germany - Stanford University Gerhard Widmer, Austria - Johannes Kepler University See the total list of ECCAI fellows ECCAI General AssemblyECCAI held its annual General Assembly during ECAI-06 where a number of significant decisions were made. These are summarised below:
ACAI-07 Summer schoolThe next ACAI summer shool will be held in August, 20-28, in Leuwen (Belgium) on “Logic for AI”.It will be hosted by the Laboratory for declarative languages and artificial intelligence (DTAI / Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). ECAI -08 in Patras (Greece)More details in the next bulletin, have a look on the http://www.ece.upatras.gr/ecai2008 website.ECAI-10 in Lisbon (Portugal)More details in the next bulletinECCAI Journals- IEEE Intelligent systems http://www.computer.org/intelligent/July/August 2006, Machine Ethics![]() Machine-ethics research might be the key to alleviating people's fears concerning machine intelligence and will likely advance our thinking about ethical theory. This special issue features articles that argue for, and begin to develop, machine ethics from both philosophical and AI perspectives. Also in this issue: AI's semantic future, human-inspired robots, and more - Artificial Intelligence Communications:http://iospress.metapress.com/openurl.asp?genre=issue&issn=0921-7126&issue=current |
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