Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
In plain wordsA major professional society for artificial intelligence researchers, founded in the United States in 1979, which runs a large yearly AI conference, publishes a magazine and honors leading scientists.
A scientific and professional society for artificial intelligence, US-based but international in membership, that serves the field through conferences, publications, honors and studies of AI's direction. It organizes the annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — historically strongest in symbolicsymbolic AI, n.: An approach to AI that writes knowledge down as human-readable symbols and rules, such as 'every bird has wings', and reasons by manipulating them step by step instead of learning patterns from data. reasoning, planning, knowledge representationknowledge representation, n.: The study of how to record knowledge about objects, categories, rules and events in a precise format, so that a program can reason with it and reach conclusions nobody typed in. and multi-agent systems, now covering all of AI — together with the Innovative Applications of AI conference and spring and fall symposia. It publishes AI Magazine, elects AAAI Fellows and co-sponsors, with the ACM, the conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. It has periodically convened studies of the field's direction, including a 2008–2009 presidential panel on long-term AI futures that met at Asilomar and a 2025 presidential panel report on the future of AI research.
Origin
Founded in 1979 as the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, with Allen Newell as its first president; its first national conference was held at Stanford University in August 1980. It adopted its present name in 2007 to reflect a membership drawn from around the world.
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- IJCAIIJCAI, prop. n.: A worldwide conference spanning all branches of artificial intelligence, first held in 1969, before any of today's other leading AI meetings. It also presents some of the field's best-known awards.
- NeurIPSNeurIPS, prop. n.: The largest yearly scientific conference on artificial intelligence and machine learning, held each December, where many of the field's landmark papers were first presented.
- ICMLICML, prop. n.: A leading machine learning conference, first held as a workshop in 1980, where researchers gather each summer to present new learning methods and theory.
- Allen NewellAllen Newell, prop. n.: An American computer scientist who, with Herbert Simon, wrote early AI programs that solved problems the way people do, and who sought a single theory of how the mind works.
- symbolic AIsymbolic AI, n.: An approach to AI that writes knowledge down as human-readable symbols and rules, such as 'every bird has wings', and reasons by manipulating them step by step instead of learning patterns from data.
- knowledge representationknowledge representation, n.: The study of how to record knowledge about objects, categories, rules and events in a precise format, so that a program can reason with it and reach conclusions nobody typed in.
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