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ACM SIGART 2012 Review

ACM SIGART 2012 Review. Chair: Yolanda Gil , University of Southern California Vice-Chair: Qiang Yang , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Treasurer: Gautam Biswas , Vanderbilt University. SIGART Organization. Elections held in 2009: two new officers, one continuing

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ACM SIGART 2012 Review

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  1. ACM SIGART 2012 Review Chair: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California Vice-Chair: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Treasurer: Gautam Biswas, Vanderbilt University

  2. SIGART Organization • Elections held in 2009: two new officers, one continuing • Chair: Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California • Vice-Chair: Qiang Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology • Treasurer: GautamBiswas, Vanderbilt University • Past Chair: Maria Gini (University of Minnesota) • Established an Advisory Board (includes current president of IJCAI and immediate past-president of AAAI) • Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University) • Jim Hendler (Rensselaer Polytechnic University) • Haym Hirsh (Rutgers University) • Eric Horovitz (Microsoft Research) • Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California) • Established Liaisons for Educational Activities • MehranSahami (Stanford University) • Peter Norvig (Google Labs)

  3. Finances and Membership • Very healthy fund balance: $745K • DL revenue stable • Membership • Around 1,000 members • Retention • 1st year retention around 40% • 2nd year retention around 80% • Discussing investments of funds that would allow SIGART to gain and retain members

  4. Member Benefits • Member benefits: • Reduced registration at the conferences sponsored by SIGART: • Conference proceedings from AAMAS, HRI, and IUI (all on CD-ROM). • Reduced registration at many conferences held "in cooperation" with SIGART • Access to the following contents in the ACM Digital Library: • Proceedings of all the SIGART sponsored conferences and some in-cooperation (doubled articles in 2010, maintained in 2011) • Community Benefits Provided by SIGART: • Sponsorship and support of conferences relevant to the AI community. • Autonomous Agents Research Award. • Travel support for students to SIGART sponsored conferences. • Support for AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. • SIGART Web site (14K unique visitors, 2K repeat visitors) (2.5K visits/month)

  5. SIGART Conferences • Sponsored Conferences: • ASE: Automated Software Engineering, Sept. • HRI: Human Robot Interaction, Mar. • IUI: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Jan. • K-CAP: Knowledge Capture, Oct. (odd years) • WI/IAT: Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology, Oct. • Special agreement with AAMAS • Many in-cooperation conferences • Cooperation with AAAI on Doctoral Consortium

  6. SIGART GOALS (I) • Continue to support conferences, strong organization committees, many volunteers, high quality papers • Major issues this period • Negotiated a renewed agreement with AAMAS • now indefinitely • IUI governance and continuity • Worked with SIGCHI to resolve it • Set up an Oversight Committee chaired by Alain Chesnais • Autonomous Agents Research Awards annually • M. Veloso (2009), J. Gratch & S. Marsella (2010), J. Halpern (2011), M. Tennenholtz (2012)

  7. SIGART GOALS (II) • Outreach to the community • New web site with advertisement of conferences and other community events • Article to reach out to Chinese Computer Federation • Student support • AAAI/SIGART Doctorial Consortium • Travel grants for conference attendance $25K/year • Education • Involved with the IEEE/ACM CS2013 Curriculum Initiative • Educational Activities Liaisons • Currently discussing new activities focused on recent graduates and early career researchers

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