IJCAI
In plain wordsA 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.
The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, a general AI meeting whose program spans 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., reasoning, planning, search, constraint satisfaction, multi-agent systems, machine learning and applications; dating from 1969, it predates every other major AI conference. After decades as a biennial event it has met every year since 2016, sometimes jointly with regional meetings such as the European Conference on AI. The nonprofit that runs it gives the Computers and Thought Award to researchers under 35 (first awarded in 1971, to Terry Winograd) and the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (first awarded in 1985, to John McCarthy). Its early meetings were landmark venues for 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.: work on Shakey the robotShakey the robot, prop. n.: A wheeled robot built at a California research institute between 1966 and 1972 that could look around, make a plan and carry it out: the first mobile robot to work out its own steps toward a goal. was presented at the first conference in 1969 and the STRIPS planner in 1971.
Origin
First held in May 1969 in Washington, D.C.; 'Joint' reflected co-sponsorship by several computing and AI societies at a time when no single AI society existed. The conferences are governed by IJCAI, Inc., a nonprofit corporation.
Related
- Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: A 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.
- 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.
- Shakey the robotShakey the robot, prop. n.: A wheeled robot built at a California research institute between 1966 and 1972 that could look around, make a plan and carry it out: the first mobile robot to work out its own steps toward a goal.
- 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.
- 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.
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial IntelligenceAssociation for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, prop. n.: A 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.