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Welcome to the first issue in our fourth year of AI Matters. This issue has lots of great new ways for you to catch up on the latest in AI News, beginning with reports on conferences and events. The first is a report on the first AAAI/ACM Conference on ...

The 2018 AAAI/ACM SIGAI Job fair marked the third installment of the popular event for both recruiters and students. As we have seen steady growth in the attendance at AAAI over the last several years we have seen similar growth in the number of ...

The 1st AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-18) was held February 13, 2018 at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event was held just before AAAI in order to highlight the overlap of the two conference and ...

Every day we read in the scientific and popular press about advances in AI and how AI is changing our lives. Things are moving at a fast pace, with no obvious end in sight.

In this column, we share resources for learning about and teaching Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). HMMs find many important applications in temporal pattern recognition tasks such as speech/handwriting/gesture recognition and robot localization. In such ...

Professor Jon Oberlander (University of Edinburgh) passed away suddenly on the 19th of December 2017. Jon was remembered by friends, family and colleagues, at a deeply moving ceremony in the Playfair Library at the University of Edinburgh this January. ...

AI Policy is a regular column in AI Matters featuring summaries and commentary based on postings that appear twice a month in the AI Matters blog (https://sigai.acm.org/aimatters/blog/).

Like most people, I first encountered Artificial Intelligence through movies - The Terminator, Blade Runner, 2001. As a rule, the future in these stories was always dystopian which I found irritating. If humanity was able to create such amazing ...

California today became the first state in the Union to elect a computer as governor. The independent candidate, Corpus Legis, handily defeated its human opponents in a special election following the retirement of former governor Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown.