Timing (Please Read)

2 min: Intro: Sebastian 6 min: Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue 2 min: Craig Boutilier: IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper 2 min: Tony Cohn and Rita Dechter: AIJ awards 2 min: Craig Knoblock: three IJCAI Awards 3 min: Wolfgang Wahlster: Thank-you remarks 10 min: Program: Francesca 3 min: Closing: Sebastian

Organizing Entities

Welcome to China!

AI Obituaries

John McCarthy

David Waltz

Robert Wilensky

John Riedl

Doug Engelbart

Local Arrangement Chairs: Fei-Yue Wang, Derong Liu, Maosong Sun

Welcome to Beijing

Beijing (北京 , North Capital)

The Capital of the People's Republic of China One of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China The second largest Chinese city by urban population The nation's political, cultural, and educational center A major hub for the national highway, expressway,

railway, and high-speed rail networks Home to a great number of colleges and universities,

including Tsinghua University and Peking University (two of the National Key Universities)

Where are we?

We are here!

BICC

Local Arrangement Chairs

Professor Qin Zhang

JAIR Editor-in-chief, Craig Boutilier

Daniel Golovin and Andreas Krause

Adaptive Submodularity: Theory and Applications in Active Learning and

Stochastic Optimization

August 6, 14:20 in Room 201CD

IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize

AIJ Editors-in-Chief: Tony Cohn & Rina Dechter

Thomas Eiter, Giovambattista Ianni, Thomas Lukasiewicz, Roman Schondlauder, Hans Tompits

Computing Answer Set Programming with Descriptive Logics for the

Semantic Web

Artificial Intelligence 172(12-13): 2008

2013 Prominent Paper Award

Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson

STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving

to Problem Solving

Artificial Intelligence 2(3/4), 1971

2013 Classic Paper Award

Alan Mackworth

Consistency in Networks of Relations

Artificial Intelligence 8(1), 1977

2013 Classic Paper Award

IJCAI President: Craig Knoblock

Research Excellence Award

Hector Levesque

Knowledge representation and reasoning, including cognitive robotics, theory of belief, and tractable reasoning

Thursday, Aug 8, 11:10am

Computers and Thought Award

Kristen Grauman

Fundamental contributions to recognition and search problems in computer vision

Tuesday, Aug 6, 11:10am

Distinguished Service Award

Wolfgang Wahlster

Extensive service to the field of AI throughout his highly distinguished career

Distinguished Service Award: Wolfgang Wahlster

Program Chair: Francesca Rossi

IJCAI Program

8 invited talks 12 journal track presentations

36 best papers/dissertations

from sister conferences

presentations

413 accepted papers• 1473 submissions• All as posters, 195 also

as oral1 panel + 1 debate

3 Competitions• Robot competition• Video competition• Angry Birds AI

competition

23 tutorials 35 workshops

Some new services• myIjcai• Poster in my

pocket

Program Structure

August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9

8:30-9:00 welcome

8 parallel sessions + posters

8:30-9:20 Invited talk

7 parallel sessions + posters

9:00-9:45 Invited talk 9:20-9:45Video competition awards

9:45-10:15 coffee coffee coffee coffee

10:15-11:00 Invited talk 8 parallel sessions + posters

Invited talk7 parallel sessions + posters11:15-12:00 Award talk Award talk

12:00-13:30 lunch lunch lunch lunch

13:30-14:15

7 parallelsessions + posters

Invited talk8 parallel sessions + posters

13:30-15:00 Panel

14:30-15:15 Invited talk 15:10-16:00Invited talk

15:15-15:45 coffee coffee coffee 16:00-16:50Invited talk

15:45-17:30 8 parallel sessions + posters

8 parallel sessions + debate + posters

7 parallel sessions + posters

16:50-18:00Closing event

Invited Speakers

Andreas Herzig Jon Kleinberg Wei Li Rolf Pfeifer

Steven Phillips Thad Starner Joshua Tenenbaum

Pascal Van Hentenryck

Award Keynotes

IJCAI-13 Computers and Thought Award

• Kristen Grauman • Towards Large-Scale Visual

recognition and search

IJCAI-13 Arward for Research Excellence

• Hector Levesque • On our Best

Behaviour

Technical Program

• 1,473 submissions• 413 accepted papers (28%)• 195 also chosen for oral presentation

Record submission

• 35 Area Chairs• 397 Senior PC members• 1,799 PC members

Double blind review process

• Published by IJCAI and AAAI Press

Proceedings online and on memory stick!

• Thomas Preuss (Confmaster)• Domenico Salvagnin

Submission Support

Track: AI and Sustainability

• 98 technical papers• 6 data challenge papers

Submissions:

• Oral + poster: 12 technical• Poster: 11 technical + 3 data challenge• Total: 26 papers (25%)

Accepted:

Chair: Carla Gomes

Distinguished Papers

• Bayesian Optimization in High Dimensions via Random Embeddings by Ziyu Wang, Masrour Zoghi, Frank Hutter, David Matheson, Nando de Freitas

• Maximizing Flexibility in Simple Temporal Networks by Bob Huisman, Tomas Klos, Michel Wilson, Cees Witteveen

IJCAI Distinguished papers

• Semi-Supervised Learning for Integration of Aerosol Predictions from Multiple Satellite Instruments by Nemanja Djuric, Lakesh Kansakar, Slobodan Vucetic

Outstanding paper (AICS Track)

• A Hidden Markov Model-Based Cicada Detector for Crowdsourced Smartphone Biodiversity Monitoring by Davide Zilli, Oliver Parson, Geoff V Merrett, Alex Rogers

Outstanding student paper (AICS Track)

Best Papers from Sister Conferences

• ACL 2012, CHI 2013, COLT 2012, EC 2012, ECML 2012, FOIS 2012, ICCBR 2011, ICCBR 2012, ICLP 2011, ICLP 2012, ICRA 2012, ISWC 2012, IUI 2012, JELIA 2012, KDD 2012, PKDD 2012, RecSys 2011, RecSys 2012, RR 2012, RSS 2012, SAT 2012, TARK 2013, UAI 2012, UMAP 2011, WSDM 2012

30 presentation, from best papers at the following conferences:

• 2012 ACP Doctoral Research Award2012 SiGKDD Doctoral Dissertation AwardECCAI 2011 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award ICAPS 2012 Best Dissertation AwardIFAAMAS-11 and 12 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

6 best theses:

Plus ECCAI 2012 thesis award and IJCAI-JAIR best paper

Also 4 page paper and poster

Chair: Berthe Choueiry

Journal Track

• Never presented at AI conference• AI Journal (6)• JAIR (6)• 4 page paper, poster

12 papers from past 2 years

Chair: Umberto Grandi

Impact of AI on Society

• Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield and Chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control)

Debate on banning autonomous weapons

• Moderator: Stuart Russell (University of California, Berkeley)• Joanna Bryson (University of Bath)• Henry Kautz (University of Rochester)• Anders Sandberg (Oxford University)• Sebastian Thrun (Google, Stanford, and Udacity)

Panel on The Future of AI: What if We Succeed?

Supported by AI Journal

Competitions

• Goal: Reward best AI videos• 17 shortlisted videos• 6 award categories• Organizers: Patrick Doherty and Jonas Kvanstrom

Video Competition

• Goal: Foster innovative new robotics systems• 10 Robot Teams• Organizers: Mary-Anne Williams and Xiaoping Chen

Robot Competition

• Goal: Build AI that plays as good as best human players• Man against machine, Best AI Agent• Organizers: Jochen Renz, Stephen Gould, and Gary Ge

Angry Birds Competition

Tutorials, Workshops, and the Doctoral Consortium

August 3-5

23 tutorials35 workshops

Tutorial chair: Boi Faltings Workshop chairs: Edith Elking, Eyal Amir

Doctoral Consortium: 33 Students

TalksPostersMentors

Chairs: Maria Gini, Jimmy Lee, Michela Milano

New Ideas

• Online voting by all attendees, to be awarded at closing event

Vote for best presentation / poster

• Create a personalized conference schedule on smartphones and PCs

MyIjcai

• To download posters (PDF) to smartphones

Poster in your pocket (by Elsevier)

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THANK YOU !!!

• 35 Area Chairs• 397 Senior PC members• 1,799 PC members

Program Committee

• 3,171 authors• 1,473 submissions

Authors

• 7 Competition chairs• 3 Tutorial and workshop chairs• 4 Special track and special event chairs• 3 Doctoral consortium chairs• 47 tutorial speakers• 107 workshop organizers

Event Organizers / speakers

• Francisco Cruz

Web Chair

Conference Chair: Sebastian Thrun

Key IJCAI Organizers

Program Chair: Francesca Rossi

Local Arrangement: Fei-Yue Wang

Local Arrangement: Derong Liu

Local Arrangement: Maosong Sun

Executive Secretary: Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz

IJCAI Secretary-Treasurer: Bernhard

Nebel

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