--- 50 Years AI --- Symposium at KI 2006 Saturday, June 17th, 2006 http://www.ai-conference.de/50yearsAI/ This year, the Artificial Intelligence community celebrates the golden anniversary of the 1956 Dartmouth Conference that marks the beginning of AI as a research field. This symposium will take stock of the promises and achievements of AI and looks ahead to the next 50 years. INVITEES: MARVIN MINSKY (MIT), "Father of AI" and one of the organizers of the 1956 Dartmouth conference PAT HAYES (Pensacola), AI pioneer in the area of"commonsense reasoning" WOLFGANG BIBEL (Darmstadt), AI pioneer in the area of automated deduction JOERG SIEKMANN (Saarbruecken, DFKI), AI pioneer in theorem proving DON NORMAN (Northwestern U. & Nielson Norman group), founder of "Cognitive Science" and author of many books including "Design of Everyday Things" SEBASTIAN THRUN (Stanford) and his vehicle "STANLEY", winners of the 2005 Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles. WOLFGANG WAHLSTER (Saarbruecken, DFKI), AI pioneer in natural language interaction, winner of many awards, including the innovation prize 2002 of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany HIROSHI ISHIGURO (Osaka) and his android "REPLIEE Q2" ----------------------8<--------------------8<----------------------- Upon popular request, and due to the co-occurrence of many deadlines we have decided to extend the submission deadline for KI-2006: EXTENDED DEADLINE for SUBMISSIONS: March 31, 2006 Note also the double submission policy with ECAI: ECAI papers can also be submitted to KI 2006 (doubly accepted papers must be retracted from one conference). ----------------------8<--------------------8<----------------------- 29th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence 14 - 19 June 2006, Bremen, Germany http://www.ai-conference.de/ki06/ ----- Deadline Extension & Call for Papers ----- The conference invites original research papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Besides papers on the foundations of AI we also welcome reports on innovative applications. The conference will be co-located with: RoboCup 2006 - http://www.robocup2006.org ACTUATOR 2006 - http://www.actuator.de TOPICS: Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Autonomous Robots and Planning Cognitive Architectures and Modeling Formal Methods and Semantic Web Knowledge Representation and Ontologies Temporal and Spatial Reasoning Vision and Image Understanding Multimodal Processing and Multimedia Multi Agent Systems and Machine Learning Natural Language and Speech Processing Reasoning under Uncertainty and Soft Computing Knowledge Discovery and Management SUBMISSION DATES: March 31, 2006: Submission of electronic abstracts and papers April 30, 2006: Notification for conference papers May 30, 2006: "Camera-ready" copies for conference papers SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Conference submission is electronic, in PDF or postscript format. Submitted papers must not exceed 15 pages and should conform to Springer LNCS style (see details for paper submission on the conference web page). Papers must be written in English. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) Series after the conference. KI 2006 and ECAI 2006 allow double submission; in case of double acceptance one submission must be withdrawn by the author(s). At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the contribution. ORGANIZATION Conference Chairs: Christian Freksa, Kerstin Schill Program Chairs: Michael Kohlhase, Christian Freksa Program Committee: John Bateman Barbara Becker Susanne Biundo Wolfram Burgard Stephan Busemann Ulises Cortes Ruediger Dillmann Klaus Fischer Ulrich Furbach Hans Werner Guesgen Volker Haarslev Nicola Henze Joachim Hertzberg David Israel Herbert Jaeger Manfred Kerber Boicho Kokinov Alexander Koller Rudolf Kruse Lars Kulik Franz Kurfess Jana Koehler Longin Latecki Gerard Ligozat Ramon Lopez de Mantaras Kai v. Luck Rainer Malaka Katharina Morik Bernd Neumann Ian Pratt-Hartman Raul Rojas Thomas Roefer Michel de Rougemont Alessandro Saffiotti Ulrike Sattler Juerrgen Sauer Kerstin Schill Christoph Schlieder Tanja Schultz Laure Vieu Ipke Wachsmuth Wolfgang Wahlster Stefan Wrobel Jianwei Zhang Honorary Chair: Wilfried Brauer Workshop Chair: Bernd Krieg-Brueckner Tutorial Chair: John Bateman Exhibition Chair: Frank Kirchner Industrial Liaison: Otthein Herzog Robocup Liaison: Ubbo Visser Contact ki2006@informatik.uni-bremen.de http://www.ai-conference.de/ki06/ -------------------------------------------------- Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft Schriftführer: Prof. Dr. Manfred Thüring Webmaster: Nikolaus Rötting e-Mail: sf@gk-ev.de Web: http://www.gk-ev.de --------------------------------------------------