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Last Week to Apply for the Blue Sky Ideas AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track

September 9th, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, awards, Blue Sky / by Khari Douglas

AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation TrackThe Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is sponsoring a Blue Sky Ideas Track at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Meeting (AAAI-20) in February 2020 in New York through their Senior Member Presentation Track (SMPT).

Summary: SMPT provides an opportunity for established researchers in the AI community to give a broad talk on a well-developed body of research, an important new research area, or a promising new topic. These presentations should provide a big picture view, in contrast to regular papers, which may focus on a specific contribution. There are two subtracks for submissions of talk proposals for the AAAI 2020 Senior Members Track (SMPT): the summary talk – broad talks on a well-developed body of research or an important new research area – and the Blue Sky Ideas talks.

The Blue Sky Ideas talk presentations are aimed at presenting ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, e.g., new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies that are likely to stimulate significant new research. The presenter should find the right arguments to convince the audience that the topic is promising, and should relate the talk as much as possible to the existing literature. The CCC will give three awards ($1000, $750 and $500), for the three best submissions in this category, to be used as travel grants for the presenters. Each accepted talk will be accompanied by a paper in the proceedings.

Eligibility: This track is open to researchers who are at least 5 years past their PhD, have acquired international recognition for their work, and have established a significant publication record of AI-related research in AI conferences and journals. While papers can be co-authored, a senior member must be first author and must give the talk at AAAI. It is important to note that you do not have to be a AAAI Fellow nor hold the official status of Senior Member of AAAI in order to submit to the Senior Member Presentation Track.

Important Dates:

  • September 13, 2019: Electronic submissions of talks and papers due
  • October 11, 2019: Notification of acceptance or rejection
  • November 21, 2019: Camera-ready versions at the AAAI office

Please submit here before the September 13, 2019 deadline. For more information about SMPT, please see this website.

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Last Week to Apply for the Blue Sky Ideas AAAI-20 Senior Member Presentation Track

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