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Announcements about group activities will be placed here from time to time in date order, the most recent first.
First Annual BCS Prize for Progress Towards Machine Intelligence
December 11th 2002, Cambridge UK, in association with ES2002
Click here for details
SGES Renamed SGAI
At the end of May the group officially changed its name from SGES to SGAI, the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence. It is likely that both names will remain in use for some time.
The Group's organising committee believes that the new name much better reflects the wide scope of our activities, in particular
There are no plans to rename our list server AI-SGES at present. Our forthcoming annual conference will retain the name ES2002, but the series will be renamed AI-2003 etc. from next year onwards.
Max Bramer
Chairman, SGAI
June 2002
SGES and NCAF
SGES is entering into closer co-operation with NCAF, the Natural Computing Applications Forum. Click here for further information.
Max Bramer
Chairman, SGES
[Posted March 11th 2002]
SGES Evening Lectures
This long-running series of evening lectures is open to all, whether SGES members or non-members, and is free of charge.
Next lecture: Wednesday March 27th 2002 (6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
Unifying AI
Gerry Wolff (University of Wales)
Venue: Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London (nearest underground: Goodge Street).
Chairman: Dr. Chris Christodoulou, Birkbeck College. Email: chris@dcs.bbk.ac.uk.
Further details of this year's programme will be placed here as they become available.
[Posted February 7th 2002.]
ECCBR 2002
SGES is co-sponsoring the Sixth European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning which will be held in Aberdeen,
Scotland from September 4th-7th 2002.
The conference website is at http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/eccbr2002/.
The final date for submitting papers is approx. March 1st 2002 (exact date to be announced).
For further information contact the conference chair Professor Susan Craw
or the co-chair Dr. Alun Preece.
Max Bramer
Chairman, SGES
[Posted October 28th 2001]
SGES Evening Lectures
This long-running series of evening lectures is open to all, whether SGES members or non-members, and is free of charge.
Next lecture: Wednesday November 21st 2001 (6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
Iris Recognition
Professor John Daugman (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London (nearest underground: Goodge Street).
Chairman: Prof. Boris Mirkin, Birkbeck College. Email: mirkin@dcs.bbk.ac.uk.
NOTE: This SGES lecture will be combined on the 21 November 2001 with a meeting of the British Classification Society in the Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, London from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. (3 speakers), which is also free of charge and open to all. Click here for further details.
Further details of this year's programme will be placed here as they become available.
[Posted October 4th 2001. Revised October 13th 2001 and November 16th 2001]
IJCAI Returning to Britain
I am very pleased to be able to announce that a bid by SGES to host the 2005 IJCAI Conference was accepted by the IJCAI Trustees at their recent meeting.
The biennial IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) conferences are the premier world forum for presenting advances in Artificial Intelligence. It is a great achievement to have been able to bring the conference back to Britain after an absence of over 30 years and this is largely due to the efforts of our Treasurer, Dr. Rob Milne, who has led the preparations for our bid over the last few years.
The IJCAI-2005 conference will be held in Edinburgh. It will be timed to finish just before the Edinburgh Festival and is likely to attract a large number of delegates from all parts of the world. SGES will be organising the conference jointly with the University of Edinburgh.
Further information will be circulated and also placed on the SGES website as it becomes available.
Max Bramer
Chairman, SGES
[August 11th 2001]
December 11th 2001, Cambridge UK, in association with ES2001
Click here for details
SGES is hosting this year's UK CBR workshop which will be held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK on Monday December 10th. A special rate will be available for those attending ES2001 on the following two days. SGES are also subsidising a reduced rate for non-presenting students.
Click here for the Call for Papers (Word 2000 format).
This long-running series of evening lectures is open to all, whether SGES members or non-members, and is free of charge.
Next lecture: Wednesday April 25th 2001
Programming Robots with Natural Language
Dr Guido Bugmann (University of Plymouth)
Venue: Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London (nearest underground: Goodge Street).
Chairman: Dr. Chris Christodoulou, Birkbeck College. Email: chris@dcs.bbk.ac.uk
Further details of this year's programme will be placed here as they become available.
[Posted February 12th 2001]
In 2000, SGES launched a new series of workshops, looking at applications of Knowledge-Based Systems and Intelligent
Systems in the 21st Century. The goals of these workshops are to promote discussion, review progress, and identify
new opportunities. The workshops may have a technology or an applications emphasis. The first workshop in the series
was on "Intelligent Systems in the Knowledge-Driven Economy" held at Liverpool University in May 2000,
from which very positive feedback was obtained.
We invite all SGES members to submit proposals for workshops under this overall scheme.
[Posted January 19th 2001]
SGES is hosting this year's UK CBR workshop which will be held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, UK on Monday December 11th, immediately before the group's annual conference ES2000. A special rate is available for those attending the conference on the following two days. SGES are also subsidising a reduced rate for non-presenting students.
Click here for the Call for Papers.
[Posted July 28th 2000]
This long-running series of evening lectures is open to all, whether SGES members or non-members, and is free of charge.
Next lecture: October 11th 2000
Data Mining in Practice
Dr. Alan Montgomery
Venue: Department of Computer Science, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London (nearest underground: Goodge Street).
Chairman: Dr. Hui Liu, Birkbeck College
Further details of this year's programme will be placed here as they become available.
[Posted July 28th 2000]
ECCAI, the European Co-ordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence is making the full text of its international journal AI Communications available free of charge to SGES members via the world-wide web. Issues published in the last three years (volumes 10 to 12) are currently available and others will be added in due course.
Details of how to access the AI Communications electronic archive and the necessary identifier and password have been sent to all paid-up SGES members.
[Posted April 21st 2000]
The Group's arrangement with Springer-Verlag to provide a reduced rate to SGES members for individual subscriptions to the journals Neural Computing & Applications and Pattern Analysis & Applications has been extended for a further year. Discounts are also available on other Springer publications.
Click here for further details.
[Posted April 15th 2000]
A report of the workshop on Using AI to Enable Knowledge Management held during
ES99 in Cambridge in December 1999 is available here.
*** Call for Participation ***
A One-Day Workshop organised by SGES
May 8, 2000
Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~apreece/iskde/
This is the first in a new series of workshops organised by SGES, looking at applications of Knowledge-Based Systems and Intelligent Systems in the 21st Century. The goals of these workshops are to promote discussion, review progress, and identify new opportunities. For further details click here.