AAAI 2017 Community Mee2ng and Business Mee2ng. Subbarao Kambhampa2 President, AAAI 2/8/2017

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1 AAAI 2017 Community Mee2ng and Business Mee2ng Subbarao Kambhampa2 President, AAAI 2/8/2017

2 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)

3 AWendance Con2nues to GROW AWendance 42% increase this year AWendance

4 Increasing Interna2onal Representa2on Country USA (up 27%) China (up 76%) Japan Korea UK 44 51

5 Thanks to..

6 Thanks ESPECIALLY to

7 AAAI 2017: New Orleans Dates: February 4-8, 2018 Program Chairs: Sheila Mcillraith & Kilian Q. Weinberger

8 AAAI 2018 Paper submission: September, 2017 Loca2on: New Orleans Feedback:

9 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

10 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

11 AAAI 2019

12 AAAI 2019 Program Chairs: Zhi-Hua Zhou, Nanjing University, China Pascal Van Hentenryck, U. Michigan, USA Loca2on to be decided

13 Part 2: AAAI Associa2on

14 AAAI Associa2on State of the Associa2on Membership Ini2a2ves; Chapters AAAI Awards

15 AAAI Leadership

16 AAAI Execu2ve Council (Staggered three year terms)

17 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

18 AAAI Finances are Stable 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)

19 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

20 The AAAI 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

21 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:// membership.php#rates

22 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) AAAI Chapters

23 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

24 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.

25 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 sugges5ons to president@aaai.org (or rao@asu.edu)