Call: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-12)

Published: Wed, 09/12/12

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Call: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-12)

September 12, 2012


Call for Participation:

AAAI invites you to participate in the Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-12) will be held October 8-12, 2012 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. AIIDE-12 is intended to be the definitive point of interaction between entertainment software developers interested in AI and academic and industrial AI researchers.

One of the highlights of the conference is the invited speaker series. This year, invited speakers include:

  • Rich Hilleman, VP and Chief Creative Director at Electronic Arts
  • Dr. Zoran Popovic, U. Washington, principal investigator of the Fold-It crowdsourcing game
  • Dr. Marek Michalowski, Co-founder of BeatBots LLC, inventor of the KeepOn robotic toy
  • Dr. Hannes Vilhjálmsson, Reykjavík University

We will additionally hold a panel on Sports Games featuring developers of EA Sports popular titles.

This year, AIIDE will also feature five co-located workshops:

  • The 5th Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT)
  • Human Computation in Digital Entertainment
  • Artificial Intelligence for Serious Games
  • Artificial Intelligence in Adversarial Real-Time Games
  • 1st International Workshop on Musical Metacreation.

Conference details are at http://aiide.org. Regular registration is open through September 17, 2012.

I hope to see you there!

Mark Riedl
AIIDE’12 General Chair
[email protected]




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