The goal of AAAI’s second annual video competition is to show the world how much fun AI is by documenting exciting artificial intelligence advances in research, education, and application. The rules were simple: Compose a short video about an exciting AI project, and narrate it so that it is accessible to a broad online audience. Accepted videos will be screened in the AAAI-08 registration area on Monday, 14 July 2008. During that evening’s session, the developers of the best videos will be formally presented with awards. We strongly encouraged student participation.
Award Categories
Best (Long), Best Short, Best Student, Best Educational, and Most Visionary. (Other categories may be added at the discretion of the cochairs.)
Awards
Trophies named in honor of SRI’s Shakey robot and its inspirational video.
Sponsors
Thanks to Google, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and the AAAI AI Video Archive Project for sponsoring the awards, and to the Jozef Stefan Institute and Knexus Research Corporation for their technical support
AI Video Competition Cochairs
David Aha (david.aha@nrl.navy.mil) and Sebastian Thrun (thrun@stanford.edu).
Program Committee
- Aha, David (NRL), Cochair
- Michael Bowling (University of Alberta), Educational Video Track Chair
- Bruce Buchanan (University of Pittsburgh); Advisor, AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project
- Yu-Han Chang (USC ISI)
- Anders Christensen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Frederick Crabbe (USNA)
- Carlos Diuk (Rutgers University)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University)
- Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Marko Grobelnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Kalyan Moy Gupta (Knexus Research)
- Mitja Jermol (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland)
- Stephen Lee Urban (Lehigh University)
- Michael van Lent (Soar Technology)
- Cynthia Matuszek (University of Washington)
- Héctor Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
- David Musliner (Honeywell)
- Rehan O’Grady (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Ray Perrault (SRI International)
- Marc Pickett (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
- Alan Schultz (NRL)
- Ken Stanley (University of Central Florida)
- David Stavens (Stanford University)
- Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida)
- Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University), Cochair
- Ian Watson (University of Auckland)
- Rosina Weber (Drexel University)
- Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Further information is available at the AI Video website.