Invitation: AAAI-05 Celebrates AAAI's 25th!

["Huhns, Michael" <huhns@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

We invite you to participate in the Twentieth National Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, to be held July 9-13, 2005 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania. The technical paper abstract submission deadline is March
18, and final papers are due March 22. Please see
http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/National/2005/aaai05.html for complete
details.

AAAI-05 includes several novel organizational features to respond to
feedback from the research community, including: (i) the paper
submission date has been pushed as far ahead as possible to enable the
researchers to have the maximum time to prepare their submissions; (ii)
authors of papers may have the opportunity to respond once to the
reviews in a restricted format and time; (iii) there will not be any
invited talks in parallel with the research paper presentations to
ensure that these selectively accepted presentations can be well
attended; (iv) there will be a large poster and demonstration session,
which will include poster representations of all the research papers (v)
there will be a special track where summaries and highlights from other
specialized conferences in AI will be presented; and (vi) there will be
one or two new computer game competitions.

AAAI-05 will also celebrate the 25th anniversary of AAAI. If interested,
participants may visit Carnegie Mellon and find out more about some of
the beginnings of AI.

Downtown Pittsburgh and its three rivers offer a beautiful setup for the
conference. We look forward to seeing you at AAAI-05! We are committed
to making the conference be *your* conference!

- Manuela Veloso and Subbarao Kambhampati, AAAI-05 Program Cochairs