ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI), an interdisciplinary group of academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students.
SIGAI, previously called SIGART, started in 1966, publishes the SIGART Bulletin and Intelligence Magazine.
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Purpose
SIGAI serves academic teachers and researchers, industrial practitioners, and students; and draws its membership from all three of these communities. Part of SIGAI's remit is to serve as technical experts on AI, both for the ACM community and external entities.
Conferences
SIGAI supports several conferences.
The ACM/AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES)
The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE)
The ACM Computer Science in Cars Symposium (CSCS)
The ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, an Optimization (EAAMO)
The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI)
The International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS)
The International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
The ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA)
The International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP)
Journal
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST) is a scholarly journal that publishes the quality papers on intelligent systems, applicable algorithms and technology with a multi-disciplinary perspective. An intelligent system is one that uses AI techniques to offer important services (e.g., as a component of a larger system) to allow integrated systems to perceive, reason, learn, and act intelligently in the real world.
Newsletter/Bulletin
AI Matters is the SIGAI quarterly newsletter featuring ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the ACM Digital Library.
Awards
SIGAI has two main awards that are given out annually.
Allen Newell Award
The ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award was founded in honor of Allen Newell.
ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
Prior to 2014, it was known as the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Award. Winners include the following:
Munindar Singh, 2020
Carles Sierra, 2019
Craig Boutilier, 2018
David Parkes, 2017
Peter Stone, 2016
Catherine Pelachaud, 2015
Michael Wellman, 2014
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein, 2013
Moshe Tennenholtz, 2012
Joe Halpern, 2011
Jonathan Gratch, 2010
Stacy Marsella, 2010
Manuela M. Veloso, 2009
Yoav Shoham, 2008
Sarit Kraus, 2007
Michael Wooldridge, 2006
Milind Tambe, 2005
Makoto Yokoo, 2004
Nicholas Jennings, 2003
Katia Sycara, 2002
Tuomas Sandholm, 2001
SIGAI Advisory Board
The SIGAI Advisory Board is composed of:
Thomas G. Dietterich
James A. Hendler
Haym Hirsh
Eric Horvitz
Craig A. Knoblock
Qiang Yang
Peter Norvig
Previous Board Members
Yolanda Gil
James A. Hendler
Haym Hirsh
Eric Horvitz
Craig A. Knoblock
Qiang Yang
SIGAI Officers
Elected Officers
The SIGAI committee has four Elected Officers:
Nick Mattei, Chair
Louise Dennis, Vice-Chair
Alan Tsang, Secretary/Treasurer
Sanmay Das, Past Chair
Previous elected officers for SIGAI include:
Yolanda Gil (Chair)
Sanmay Das (Vice-Chair)
Susan L. Epstein (Secretary-Treasurer)
Maria Gini (Past Chair)
Appointed Officers
The SIGAI committee can also appoint officers to perform particular roles.
SIGAI's current Appointed Officers are:
Ziyu Yao, Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Anuj Karpatne, Newsletter Editor-in-Chief
Lirong Xia, Conference Coordination Officer
Todd Neller, Education Activities Officer
Larry Medsker, Public Policy Officer
Matt Luckcuck, Information Officer
Alan Tsang, Information Officer
SIGAI's previous elected officers include:
Eric Eaton, Newsletter Editor
Amy McGovern, Newsletter Co-editor
Doug Lange, News Officer
Sven Koenig, Conference Coordination Officer
Gabor Melli, Publications Officer
Smiljana Petrovic, Membership and Outreach Officer
Tom Dietterich, Public Policy Officer
Mehran Sahami, Education Activities Liaison
Peter Norvig, Education Activities Liaison
Allen Lavoie, Information Officer