SIGAI
ACM SIGAI is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence, 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.
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
- The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
- The
- The ACM
- The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction
- The
- The
- The ACM
- The
Journal
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 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 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
SIGAI Officers
Elected Officers
The SIGAI committee has four Elected Officers:Previous Elected Officers
Previous elected officers for SIGAI include: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
Previous Elected Officers
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