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AAAI 2017 Community Mee2ng and Business Mee2ng

Subbarao Kambhampa2 President, AAAI 2/8/2017

Outline

• Conferences:

– AAAI 2017 – AAAI 2018 Preview – AAAI 2019 Program Chairs

• The AAAI Associa2on

– Financial Report – Membership Ini2a2ve; Chapters – Policy & Public Outreach ac2vi2es – Awards Informa2on

• Discussion

– Feedback on AAAI 2017 – Future direc2ons for the AAAI Associa2on

• (“Mystery prizes” for bringing up thoughUul issues)

AWendance Con2nues to GROW

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AWendance

AWendance

42% increase this year 1818

Increasing Interna2onal Representa2on

Country 2016 2017 USA 708 964 (up 27%) China 156 275 (up 76%) Japan 48 92 Korea 15 68 UK 44 51

Thanks to..

Thanks ESPECIALLY to…

AAAI 2017: New Orleans

Dates: February 4-8, 2018 Program Chairs: Sheila Mcillraith & Kilian Q. Weinberger

AAAI 2018

Paper submission: September, 2017 Loca2on: New Orleans Feedback: aaai18feedback@gmail.com

Solici5ng Input from Par5cipants

• Paper length
• Submission 2ming
• Special tracks
• Presenta2on form
• Invited speakers
• Tutorial topics
• Debates and/or Panel topics
• Public outreach ini2a2ves
• Industry involvement and outreach
• Special themes

Solici5ng Input from PC Members

• Quality of paper assignments
• Paper load
• Subreviewer access to conference matching
• Sharing reviews from other conferences
• Tools: conference management, paper

matching

Feedback aaai18feedback@gmail.com

AAAI 2019

AAAI 2019

• Program Chairs:

– Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China – Pascal Van Hentenryck, U. Michigan, USA

• Loca2on to be decided

Part 2: AAAI Associa2on

AAAI Associa2on

• State of the Associa2on
• Membership Ini2a2ves; Chapters

– AAAI Awards

AAAI Leadership

AAAI Execu2ve Council (Staggered three year terms)

AAAI Ac2vi2es

• Conferences

– AAAI Conference on Ar2ficial Intelligence – Innova2ve Applica2ons of Ar2ficial Intelligence (IAAI) – Symposium on Educa2onal Advances in Ar2ficial Intelligence (EAAI) – Ar2ficial Intelligence and Interac2ve Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) – Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) – Human Computa2on and Crowdsourcing(HCOMP) – Spring and Fall Symposium Series

• AI Magazine
• AI Topics and AI-Alert

AAAI Finances are Stable

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Revenue $1,540k $1,538k $1,749k $1,835k Expenses $1,645k $1,663k $1,847k $1,790k Net $99k $132k $98k $45k Investments $8.8M $9.3M $9.2M $9.8M

• Each year we use a sustainable amount of the

investment earnings to support AAAI opera2ons

• We doubled the student scholarship money this

year; expect to start other ac2vi2es in 2017

• (Also working towards those beWer cookies)

Membership

• AAAI is a membership organiza2on

– Members elect/run for AAAI officer posi2ons – Can also apply for member awards

• Senior members, Fellows
• The membership is holding steady, but we are

ac2vely pursuing proposals to increase it

– We are par2cularly interested in increasing interna5onal and industry membership

• We also started a “AAAI Affiliates” ini2a2ve

– Outreach to ~4,000 non-member scien2sts who regularly contribute to AAAI ac2vi2es

The AAAI Awards

www.aaai.org/awards

• Dis5nguished Service Award

– One individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community – Nominator

• AAAI Senior Member

– AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of ar2ficial intelligence (10+ yrs) – Consecu2ve members of AAAI for at least 5 years or life members – Self nomina2on + 2 references (one Senior member or AAAI Fellow)

• AAAI Fellows

– Have made significant, sustained contribu2ons to the field of ar2ficial intelligence over many years (10+ yrs ater PhD, or equivalent) – Members for at least the last 3 years or life members – Nominator + 2 references – one has to be a AAAI Fellow

• Classic Paper Award
• Engelmore Award, Feigenbaum Prize, ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award

Developing Countries Membership Ini2a2ve

• Reduced membership prices for “weak

currency” countries

• Requirement:

– Form a commiWee of 5 AI local researchers

• Translate AAAI materials into local language(s)
• Distribute them within country
• Provide informa2on to AAAI membership commiWee

about local interests and concerns

– hWp://www.aaai.org/Membership/ membership.php#Rates

AAAI Chapters

• There has been

some resurgent interest in AAAI chapters

– Given the significant public interest in AI, the AAAI council is very suppor2ve of chapters – (Dis2nguished Speaker Program)

Infrastructure Improvement Ac2vi2es

• Plans to overhaul/modernize the AAAI

Website

– A contractor has been iden2fied and work is expected to start ater the conference

• A chock full of plans to energize the AI

Magazine

– Ashok Goel has taken over as the new AI Magazine editor

• AI Hub—an ini2a2ve to provide a unified

face of AI to the public

Policy & Public Outreach Ac2vi2es

• AAAI con2nues to be the prominent voice of

the science of AI

– We have a board posi2on on the new Partnership for AI ini2a2ve (Rao is one of the 12 trustees) – We have coordinated with the OSTP on the “Future of AI” study effort – Signed an MOU with CCF, China – Currently in talks with ACM about joint ac2vi2es in the sphere of AI and society.

Open Discussion Time

AAAI 2017 Feedback

• What worked?
• What didn’t work?
• What should we do

differently? AAAI Future Direc5ons

• What should be the role of

AAAI in the next 5-10 years?

• Are there things we should

be doing that we are not doing right now?

– Interna2onal members – Diversity & access

• Policy/Public outreach?

Can also email sugges5ons to president@aaai.org (or rao@asu.edu)