AAAI 2017 Community Mee2ng and Business Mee2ng Subbarao Kambhampa2 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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 AWendance 42% increase this year 2000 1818 1800 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 AWendance

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

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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 AAAI Future Direc5ons • What worked? • What should be the role of AAAI in the next 5-10 years? • What didn’t work? • Are there things we should • What should we do be doing that we are not differently? doing right now? – Interna2onal members – Diversity & access • Policy/Public outreach? Can also email sugges5ons to president@aaai.org (or rao@asu.edu)