{"616001":{"#nid":"616001","#data":{"type":"news","title":"AAAI 2019: Charles Isbell Named a 2019 Fellow and Ashok Goel to Give Invited Talk at AI Conference","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessors and students from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ml.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EThe Machine Learning Center at Georgia Tech (ML@GT)\u003C\/a\u003E are kicking off the New Year presenting some of their latest research at the 33\u003Csup\u003Erd\u003C\/sup\u003E AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19) in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan. 27 through Feb. 1.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFocused solely on artificial intelligence, the conference brings together more than 2,000 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers from academia and industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOne of the highlights of the conference for Georgia Tech will be the recognition of\u003Cstrong\u003E Charles Isbell\u003C\/strong\u003E as a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealAAAI\/status\/1072132592017625088\u0022\u003E2019 AAAI Fellow\u003C\/a\u003E. Isbell, Associate Executive Dean for the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECollege of Computing\u003C\/a\u003E, is being recognized for his more than two decades of significant and sustained technical contributions to the field of AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAlso well known for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/heres-how-an-ai-tricked-students-into-thinking-it-was-their-ta\u0022\u003Ehis contributions to AI\u003C\/a\u003E, ML@GT\u0026rsquo;s \u003Cstrong\u003EAshok Goel\u003C\/strong\u003E is one of the conference\u0026rsquo;s invited speakers and will be discussing \u003Cem\u003EExperiments in Teaching AI\u003C\/em\u003E. In his talk, Goel will present several experiments on teaching cognitive systems in online and blended learning settings. Goel \u0026shy;\u0026ndash; a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ic.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech\u003C\/a\u003E \u0026ndash; will also share results and draw out some general principles for teaching AI, as well as using AI to teach AI.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAAAI-19 will also feature five Georgia Tech-led research papers. According to the conference website, accepted papers touch on a variety of topics within the field including natural language processing, robotics, deep learning, and knowledge representation, and can be applied to transportation, commerce, sustainability, healthcare, and other important industries.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s five papers are:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~isbell\/papers\/aaai2019composable.pdf\u0022\u003EComposable Modular Reinforcement Learning\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1804.04164\u0022\u003EUnderstanding Story Characters, Movie Actors and Their Versatility with Gaussian Representations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1811.05831.pdf\u0022\u003ERevisiting Projection-Free Optimization For Strongly Convex Constraint Sets\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1711.06232.pdf\u0022\u003EA Novel Framework for Robustness Analysis of Visual QA Models\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/1809.01852.pdf\u0022\u003EGAMENet: Graph Augmented MEmory Networks for Recommending Medication Combination\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/kegworkshop\/\u0022\u003EKnowledge Extraction from Games\u003C\/a\u003E workshop taking place on Jan. 27 was organized by Georgia Tech Computer Science Ph.D. candidate \u003Cstrong\u003EMatthew Guzdial \u003C\/strong\u003Eand his peers from Pomona College and Drexel University. The workshop will explore approaches and questions to the automated extraction of design elements, music, character graphics, and other \u0026ldquo;knowledge\u0026rdquo; from games.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech will present five papers and bring home several big honors at AAAI 2019."}],"uid":"34773","created_gmt":"2019-01-07 18:37:15","changed_gmt":"2019-01-30 16:39:23","author":"ablinder6","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-01-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"616622":{"id":"616622","type":"image","title":"Ashok Goel will present a keynote speech and Charles Isbell will honored as a 2019 Fellow at AAAI.","body":null,"created":"1547822281","gmt_created":"2019-01-18 14:38:01","changed":"1547822281","gmt_changed":"2019-01-18 14:38:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"234688","name":"aaai.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aaai.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/aaai.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":803604,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/aaai.jpg?itok=AmF_umWt"}}},"media_ids":["616622"],"groups":[{"id":"576481","name":"ML@GT"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"606703","name":"Constellations Center"}],"categories":[{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAllie McFadden\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003Eallie.mcfadden@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}