Schlagwort: AAAI Spring Symposium Series

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AAAI Spring Symposium Series Moves to Santa Clara University

The AAAI Spring Symposium Series fosters an intimate environment for emerging AI communities to engage in workshop-style discussions. After several editions away from a university setting, the series appears to have found a new academic home. The AAAI 2027 Spring Symposium Series will take place from March 22 to March 24, 2027, at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. For many years, Stanford University provided the setting for the Spring Symposia, while more recent editions have taken place at the Hyatt Regency and other hotels at San Francisco Airport. Santa Clara University now provides a new academic setting in Silicon Valley for this established series and its distinctive format of several small symposia running in parallel. At the same time, AAAI has issued the Call for Proposals for the 2027 Spring Symposium Series. Proposals for individual symposia are due November 17, 2026, with notifications scheduled for December 8. AAAI expects to select approximately eight symposia covering a broad range of topics within and around artificial intelligence, with a particular interest in emerging research areas and communities. The move to Santa Clara University thus marks a new chapter for the AAAI Spring Symposium Series and brings the event back to a university campus. The Call for Proposals is available on the Spring Symposium Series site.

Fig.: The Santa Clara Mission Gardens (Photo: Cristiano Tomás, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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The Traditional AI Conference Moves Again

On 27 August 2024, AAAI announced the continuation of the AAAI Spring Symposium Series, to be held March 31 – April 2, 2025, at San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront in Burlingame, CA. The Call for Proposals for the Spring Symposium Series is available on the Spring Symposium Series website. According to the organizers, proposals are due October 4, 2024, and early submissions are encouraged. „The Spring Symposium Series is an annual set of meetings run in parallel at a common site. It is designed to bring colleagues together in an intimate forum while at the same time providing a significant gathering point for the AI community.“ (Website AAAI) The traditional conference will therefore not be held at Stanford University in 2025 – as it was in 2023. It returned there in 2024 to the delight of all participants. The Covid-19 pandemic had hit the conference hard before. The AAAI can only be advised to return to Stanford in 2026. Only there will the conference live up to its promise.

Fig.: In 2024 at Stanford University

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Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI Spring Symposium Series

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) 2024 Spring Symposium Series took place from March 25 to 27 at Stanford University in Stanford, California. The symposium series fosters an intimate environment that enables emerging AI communities to engage in workshop-style discussions. Topics change each year to ensure a dynamic venue that stays current with the evolving landscape of AI research and applications. This year’s program included eight symposia: Bi-directionality in Human-AI Collaborative Systems; Clinical Foundation Models Symposium; Empowering Machine Learning and Large Language Models with Domain and Commonsense Knowledge (AAAI-MAKE 2024); Federated Learning on the Edge; Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being; Increasing Diversity in AI Education and Research; Symposium on Human-Like Learning; User-Aligned Assessment of Adaptive AI Systems. On May 26, 2024, the „Proceedings of the 2024 AAAI Spring Symposium Series“ (Vol. 5 No. 1) were published. They are available at ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI-SS/issue/view/604.

Fig.: The cover of the proceedings

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AAAI Takes Proceedings of the Spring Symposia Under its Wing Again

The AAAI Spring Symposium Series will be held at Stanford University on March 25-27, 2024. The symposium co-chairs are Christopher Geib (SIFT, USA) and Ron Petrick (Heriot-Watt University, UK). Since 2019, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence has not published the proceedings itself, but left this to the organizers of the individual symposia. This had unfortunate consequences. For example, some organizers did not publish the proceedings at all, and the scientists did not know this in advance. This, in turn, had consequences for the funding of travel and fees, since many universities will only pay for their members to attend conferences if they are linked to a publication. This major flaw, which damaged the prestigious conference, was fixed in 2024. As of this year, AAAI once again offers centralized publication, along with an excellent quality assurance process. Over the past ten years, the AAAI Spring Symposia have been relevant not only to classical AI, but also to roboethics and machine ethics. Groundbreaking symposia were, for example, „Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents“ in 2016, „AI for Social Good“ in 2017, or „AI and Society: Ethics, Safety and Trustworthiness in Intelligent Agents“ in 2018. In 2024, you can look forward to the „Impact of GenAI on Social and Individual Well-being“ symposium, which will focus on an app for the blind and GPTs as virtual learning companions (VLCs), among other things. More information is available at aaai.org/conference/spring-symposia/sss24/.

Fig.: Student at Stanford University with her VLC (Image: DALL-E 3)