The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) is a research center belonging to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Research Topics include: Learning Systems, Intelligent Agents, Logic Reasoning and Search, Electronic Marketplaces, Autonomous Robots, Music with AI.
Dr. Marc Esteva passed away on December 16, 2011.
This year's festival is dedicated to Artificial Intelligence and Santiago Ontañon will participate in the "Video Games and Audiovisual Production" round table discussion
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras has been selected as the ninth recipient of the AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, sponsored by IAAI and AI Magazine. The award was presented to him at the opening ceremony of the AAAI/IAAI-2011 in San Francisco. As part of the award, Ramon delivered an invited talk at this year’s AAAI/IAAI Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference on August 10 in San Francisco (http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai11.php). Previous winners (see http://www.aaai.org/Awards/engelmore.php) are: Larry Hunter, Ed Feigenbaum, Jim Hendler, Bruce Buchanan, Oren Etzioni, Kenneth Ford, Bill Swartout, and Jay Tenenbaum.
Social Norms for Self-policing Multi-agent Systems and Virtual Societies
The premier AI Conference, IJCAI, held from July 18 to July 22 at the CCIB (Barcelona International Conventions Center), has been closed. With 1500 participants has been the most attended of the last 20 years. At the closing ceremony, the President of the IJCAI Trustees publicly recognized the outstanding job of the local organization committee lead by Prof. Carles Sierra.