SIGAI

"SIGART" redirects here. For other uses, see Sigart.

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.

Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI)

Founded	1966
Focus	Artificial Intelligence
Origins	ACM SIGART
Area served	International
Website	sigai.acm.org

SIGAI, previously called SIGART, started in 1966, publishes the SIGART Bulletin and Intelligence Magazine.^[1]

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^[2].

Conferences

SIGAI supports several conferences.^[3]

• 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.^[4]

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.^{[citation needed]}

Awards

SIGAI has two main awards that are given out annually.^{[citation needed]}

Allen Newell Award

The ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award was founded in honor of Allen Newell.^[5]

ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award

Prior to 2014, it was known as the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Award. Winners include the following:^{[citation needed]}

• 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^[6]:

• 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^[7]:

• Nick Mattei, Chair
• Louise Dennis, Vice-Chair
• Alan Tsang, Secretary/Treasurer
• Sanmay Das, Past Chair

Previous Elected Officers

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^[8]:

• 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^[9]:

• 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

See also

• Association for Computing Machinery