if openings are available. AAAI membership is required for eligibility. The
deadline for volunteer applications is
November 15, 2019.
For further information about the
Scholarship Program or the Volunteer Program, please contact AAAI at
scholars20@aaai.org. The application
will be available via the AAAI- 20 website
in late September.
Please Join
Us for AIIDE- 19
in Atlanta, Georgia!
The Fifteenth AAAI Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Interactive
Digital Entertainment (AIIDE- 19) will
be held at the at Georgia Tech, October
8–12, 2019. AIIDE is the definitive
point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested
in AI and academic and industrial
AI researchers. Sponsored by AAAI,
the conference is targeted at both the
research and commercial communities,
promoting AI research and practice
in the context of interactive digital
entertainment systems with an emphasis on commercial computer and video
games. This year’s conference features
a special topic of “Human-Centered
Evaluation,” and will include speakers,
panels, and paper sessions that focus
on directly evaluation and critical
analysis of AI in digital entertainment
contexts.
The program will also include a
slate of invited speakers, technical
paper presentations, a poster and
demo session, a doctoral consortium,
and the annual Starcraft AI Competition. The Playable Experiences
track will continue this year with
four systems with articulable innovation in the use of AI directly affecting
the user’s experience, including Rime
Royale: A Guildmaster Simulator,;
Playing with SHRDLU; Human Improvised Theatre Augmented with Artificial Intelligence; and TEDRIC: A
Talk Exercise Designer for Realizing
Improvisational Comedy. Finally, the
main conference program will be
preceded by two workshop days on
October 8–9.
AIIDE Workshops and Tutorials
AIIDE- 19 will include three workshops
and two tutorials.
Workshops
Experimental AI in Games (W1) will
be held October 8-9. For details, see
www.exag.org.
Artificial Intelligence for Strategy
Games (W2) will be held October 8.
For details, see skatgame.net/mburo/
aiide19ws.
Game Analytics (W3) will be held
October 9. For details, see sites.google.
com/view/gaw19.
Tutorials
CamJam: Using the Camelot Virtual
Environment (T1) will be held during
the afternoon of October 9.
Machine Learning for Games (T2)
will be held during the afternoon of
October 8.
Registration and Hotel
The full conference program and
registration information is available at aiide.org. The late registration
deadline is September 13. Onsite
rates will be in effect after that date.
Preregistration is strongly encouraged. The online registration form
is available at aaaiconf.cvent.com/
aiide19, and will be open through
the conference period. Onsite registration will be held in the foyer of
the designated Georgia Tech meeting
rooms each day.
AAAI has reserved a block of rooms
at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center at reduced conference
rates. When reserving your room,
please identify yourself as an AIIDE-
19 attendee to receive the discounted
rate. Space is very limited so please be
sure to reserve well in advance of the
cut-off dates. The cut-off date for conference rate reservations is September
16, 2019 (5:00 pm ET). Reservations
made after that date are subject to
availability.
For more information about registration or hotels in the area, please
consult www.aiide.org, or write to
aiide19@aaai.org.
2019 AAAI Fall
Symposium Series
The Association for the Advancement
of Artificial Intelligence’s 2019 Fall
Symposium Series will be held Thurs-
day through Saturday, November 7-9
at the Westin Arlington Gateway,
Arlington Virginia, adjacent to Wash-
ington, DC. The titles of the eight
symposia are as follows:
Artificial Intelligence and Human-
Robot Interaction for Service Robots
in Human Environments
Artificial Intelligence and Work
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
Artificial Intelligence for Synthetic
Biology
Artificial Intelligence in Government
and Public Sector
Cognitive Systems for Anticipatory
Thinking
Human-Centered AI: Trustworthiness
of AI Models and Data
Teaching AI in K- 12
The Fall Symposium Series will
feature an informal reception on
Thursday, November 7. A general
plenary session, in which the highlights of each symposium will be
presented, will be held on Friday,
November 8. Participation is open
to active participants as well as other
interested individuals on a first-come,
first-served basis. Each participant
will be expected to attend a single
symposium.
The final deadline for registration
is October 11, 2019. For registration
information, please contact AAAI
at fss19@aaai.org or visit AAAI’s web
site at www.aaai.org/Symposia/Fall/
fss19.php. A hotel room block has
been reserved at the Westin. The
cut-off date for reservations is October 16, 2019 at 5:00 pm Eastern
Time. Please call +1-888-627-7076
(reference AAAI) for reservations, or
reserve a room online via the URL
previously listed.
2020 AAAI Spring
Symposium Series
AAAI is pleased to present the 2020
Spring Symposium Series, to be held
Monday – Wednesday, March 23-25,
2020, at Stanford University. The nine
symposia will be as follows:
Applied AI in Healthcare: Safety, Community, and the Environment
Organizers: Rajan Puri, Samira Rahimi,
Selma Šabanovic
