I am very pleased to be able to announce that a bid by SGAI to host the 2005 IJCAI Conference has been accepted by the IJCAI Trustees.
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.
There is a conference website at http://ijcai05.csd.abdn.ac.uk. Further information will be circulated and also placed on the SGAI website as it becomes available.
Max Bramer
Chairman, SGAI