Mohan for Learning Fast and Slow:
Levels of Learning in General
Autonomous Intelligent Agents
Third Place: Sridhar Mahadevan for
Imagination Machines: A New Chal-
lenge for Artificial Intelligence
AAAI- 18 Best Technical
Demonstration Award
Two technical demonstrations were
honored by the Demo Awards Com-
mittee as part of the AAAI- 18 Technical
Demonstration Program. The winners
were as follows:
Jocelyn Barker, Amita Gajewar, Kon-
stantin Golyaev, Gagan Bansal, Matt
Conners for Secure and Automated
Enterprise Revenue Forecasting
Kenneth D. Forbus, Bridget Garnier,
Basil Tikoff, Wayne Marko, Madeline
Usher, Matthew McLure for Sketch
Worksheets in STEM Classrooms: Two
Deployments
Richard Hoshino, Aaron Slobodin,
William Bernoudy for An Automated
Employee Timetabling System for
Small Businesses
John F. Kolen, Mohsen Sardari, Mar-
wan Mattar, Nick Peterson, Meng Wu
for Horizontal Scaling with a Frame-
work for Providing AI Solutions With-
in a Game Company
Senthil Mani, Neelamadhav Gantayat,
Rahul Aralikatte, Monika Gupta, Sam-
path Dechu, Anush Sankaran, Shreya
Khare, Barry Mitchell, Hemamalini
Subramanian, Hema Venkatarangan
for Hi, How Can I Help You?:
Automating Enterprise IT Support
Help Desks
Risto Miikkulainen, Neil Iscoe, Aaron
Shagrin, Ryan Rapp, Sam Nazari,
Patrick McGrath, Cory Schoolland,
Elyas Achkar, Myles Brundage, Jeremy
Miller, Jonathan Epstein, Gurmeet
Lamba for Sentient Ascend: AI-Based
Massively Multivariate Conversion
Rate Optimization
Yongqing Zheng, Han Yu, Lizhen Cui,
Chunyan Miao, Cyril Leung, Qiang
Yang for SmartHS: An AI Platform for
Improving Government Service Provi-
sion
Special Computing Community
Consortium (CCC)
Blue Sky Awards
AAAI- 18, in cooperation with the CRA
Computing Community Consortium
(CCC), honored three papers in the
Senior Member track that presented
ideas and visions that can stimulate
the research community to pursue new
directions, such as new problems, new
application domains, or new methodologies. The recipients of the 2018 Blue
Sky Idea travel awards, sponsored by
the CCC, were:
First Place: Ana Paiva, Fernando Santos
and Francisco Santos for Engineering
Pro-Sociality with Autonomous
Agents
Second Place: John Laird and Shiwali
Best Technical Demonstration Award:
Jeffrey O. Kephart, Victor C. Dibia,
Jason Ellis, Biplav Srivastava, Kartik
Talamadupula, Mishal Dholakia for A
Cognitive Assistant for Visualizing
and Analyzing Exoplanets
Honorable Mention: Technical Demon-
stration: Beom-Jin Lee, Jinyoung
Choi, Chung-Yeon Lee, Kyung-Wha
Park, Sungjun Choi, Cheolho Han,
Dong-Sig Han, Christina Baek, Patrick
Emaase, Byoung-Tak Zhang for Per-
ception-Action-Learning System for
Mobile Social-Service Robots Using
Deep Learning
Join Us in Zurich, Switzerland for HCOMP- 18
The Sixth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing will be held July 5 – 8, 2018 at the University of Zurich
in Zurich, Switzerland. HCOMP- 18 will be colocated with the Collective Intelligence 2018 Conference (July 8-9). HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on
crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) represent traditional mainstays of the conference, HCOMP believes strongly in
inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary
research. This field is particularly unique in the diversity of disciplines it draws upon, and contributes to, ranging from human-centered qualitative studies and HCI design, to computer science
and artificial intelligence, economics and the social sciences, all
the way to digital humanities, policy, and ethics. HCOMP promotes the exchange of advances in human computation and
crowdsourcing not only among researchers, but also engineers
and practitioners, to encourage dialogue across disciplines and
communities of practice.
HCOMP- 18 will include technical talks, posters, and keynote
talks, including one by Patrick Meier (WeRobotics), who will speak
on Digital Humanitarians: How You Can Make a Difference during the Next Disaster. HCOMP- 18 will also feature a Works-in-Progress program and a Demonstration program. Submissions for
these are due April 16. For complete submission information
please see www.humancomputation.com/2018/submit.html#cfp-
wip. HCOMP will continue its workshop program on the day
immediately preceding the main conference, July 5, and the doctoral consortium on the last day of the conference, July 8.
Registration information will be available in late March at the
HCOMP- 18 website
www.humancomputation.com/2018/attend.html. The early registration deadline is May 4, and the late registration deadline is
June 1. For full details about the conference program, please visit
the HCOMP- 18 website ( humancomputation.com/2018) or write
to hcomp18@aaai.org.
