AAAI-06 / IAAI-06 Conference Officials
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence acknowledges and thanks the following individuals for their generous contributions of time and energy to the successful creation and planning of the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Conference Committee Chair
James A. Hendler (University of Maryland)
AAAI-06 General Conference Chair
Kenneth D. Forbus, Northwestern University
AAAI-06 Technical Program Cochairs
Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute) and Raymond Mooney (University of Texas at Austin)
IAAI-06 Chair and Cochair
Bruce Porter, University of Texas at Austin
William Cheetham, General Electric Research
Intelligent Systems Demonstrations Cochairs
Rob Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Biplav Srivastava (IBM)
Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition General Cochairs
Paul Rybski (Carnegie Mello University) and Jeffrey Forbes (Duke University)
Doctoral Consortium Chair
Kiri Wagstaff (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Student Abstract and Poster Cochairs
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde) and Sailesh Ramakrishnan (University of Michigan)
Tutorial Cochairs
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Carla Gomes (Cornell University)
Workshop Cochairs
Joyce Chai (Michigan State University) and Keith Decker (University of Delaware)
Senior Member Papers Cochairs
Kathy McKeown (Columbia University) and Dan Weld (University of Washington)
AAAI Nectar Papers Cochairs
AnHai Doan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and
Elaine Rich (University of Texas at Austin)
Special Track on Integrated Intelligent Capabilities Cochairs
Art Graesser (University of Memphis) and Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University)
Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and the Web Cochairs
Tim Finin (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan)
Member Abstracts and Posters Cochairs
Dieter Fox (University of Washington) and Ion Muslea (Language Weaver)
Robot Competition Cochairs
Paul Rybski (Carnegie Mellon University) and
Jeffrey Forbes (Duke University)
Game Playing Competition Chair
Michael Genesereth (Stanford University)
Sponsorship Chair
Illah Nourbakhsh (Carnegie Mellon University)
Technical Program Software Chair
Ken Barker (University of Texas at Austin)
Associate Chairs for Student Participation
Martin Michalowski and Matt Michelson (Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California)
AAAI-06 Senior Program Committee
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey, George Mason University
Rich Caruana, Cornell University
Peter Clark, The Boeing Company
Nir Friedman, Hebrew University
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park
Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
Fausto Giunchiglia, DIT – University of Trento
Amy Greenwald, Brown University
Jon Herlocker, Oregon State University
Rob Holte, University of Alberta
Ian Horrocks, University of Manchester
Adele Howe, Colorado State University
David Jensen, University of Massachusetts
Subbarao Kambhampati, Arizona State University
Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University
Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California
Sven Koenig, University of Southern California
Richard Korf, University of Southern California
James Lester, North Carolina State University
Michael Littman, Rutgers University
Brad Love, The University of Texas at Austin
Deborah McGuinness, Stanford University
Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto
Leora Morgenstern, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Kevin Murphy, University of British Columbia
Karen Myers, SRI International
Dana Nau, University of Maryland
Illah Nourbakhsh, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
Dan Roth, University of Illinois, Urbana
Nicholas Roy, MIT CSAIL
Bart Selman, Cornell University
Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin
Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo
Mark Wallace, Monash University
Brian Williams, MIT CSAIL
Michael Witbrock, Cycorp Inc.
Bianca Zadrozny, Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil
Shlomo Zilberstein, University of Massachusetts
IAAI-06 Program Committee
Bruce Porter (Chair), University of Texas at Austin
William Cheetham (Cochair), General Electric Research
Steve Chien, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Diane Cook, University of Texas at Arlington
Usama Fayyad, Yahoo! Research Labs
Kai Goebel, General Electric Research
Mehmet Goker, Price Waterhouse
Karen Haigh, BBN Technologies
Micheal Hewett, Hewett Research
Randall Hill, USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Neil Jacobstein, Teknowledge Corporation
Risto Miikkulainen, University of Texas at Austin
Elaine Rich, University of Texas at Austin
John Riedl, University of Minnesota
Ted Senator
Howard Shrobe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Reid Smith, Medstory, Inc.
Ramasamy Uthurusamy, General Motors Corporation