This award supports participation of doctoral students in the Fourteenth SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium to be held July 11-12, 2010 in Atlanta, Geargia in conjunction with the 2010 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The Doctoral Consortium aims to: (1) provide a setting for feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; (2) develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; and (3) support a new generation of researchers. The Doctoral Consortium organizers strive to recruit and include students from underrepresented groups and smaller schools and schools with less established programs in artificial intelligence. Students will give presentations and participate in discussion; there are one-on-one meeting with a faculty mentor. There will also be opportunities to discuss career issues in both academic and other career pathways. A report on the Consortium will be published in the AI Magazine.

Project Report

The fifteenth annual SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium was held on July 11-12, 2010, in conjunction with the twenty-fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-10) in Atlanta, Georgia. At the Consortium, 15 Ph.D. students in AI presented their proposed research and received feedback from a panel of researchers and other students. This award provided both travel support for domestic students and also helped pay for food during the breaks. The main goal of the Consortium is to give students feedback on their proposed research at a critical time, by independent, knowledgeable researchers external to their institutions. Secondary goals of the Consortium are to provide students with information about the value of different career objectives and to give students the opportunity to establish contacts with each other and with more senior researchers. In addition to the student talks we arranged two additional presentations. On Day 1, Chris Brooks (chair) gave a 60 minute talk on how to organize a research program after graduate school. This presentation built on previous presentations by Chris and Marie desJardins about practical advice for new graduates that received positive reviews. On Day 2, we continued the tradition of having a "Career Panel" consisting of members of the AI community that were working in academia, industry, and government labs to describe possible career options and their differences. The Consortium as a whole provided a valuable opportunity for students to receive feedback on their research and to learn about issues of importance to the students in their graduate school years and beyond.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
Type
Standard Grant (Standard)
Application #
1036262
Program Officer
Edwina L. Rissland
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2010-07-01
Budget End
2011-06-30
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2010
Total Cost
$16,817
Indirect Cost
Name
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
East Palo Alto
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
94303