AAAI 2008 |
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AI Education Colloquium |
Welcome to the home page for the AAAI 2008 AI Education Colloquium.
This meeting explored resources and curricula that effectively engage
a wide range of audiences with artificial intelligence in all of its forms.
for making the workshop on July 13, 2008 a success!
This page will serve as a hub for the resources from that workshop.
If you would like to add anything, please just email me at dodds@cs.hmc.edu.
Discussion summaries
This link contains an outline of ideas from our discussions
as well as survey results from our break-out session.
Pictures
Thanks! to Prof. Hong Jiang of Benedict College for taking and posting
these images from our colloquium and AAAI in general.
Talks, Posters, and Links
AAAI allows authors to post papers on personal web pages,
but not in a repository such as this site.
We link those personal web pages, slides, and material related to each talk here.
Feel free to email Zach Dodds at dodds@cs.hmc.edu if you'd like something added.
AI Colloquium ~ Sunday July 13, 2008 |
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9:00am - 10:30am: Session |
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9:00am-9:05am: |
AI colloquium welcome and introductions |
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Event Organizers, Kiri Wagstaff, Zach Dodds, and Haym Hirsh |
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9:05am-9:25am: |
AIspace: Interactive Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence |
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Byron Knoll, Jacek Kisynski, Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Alan Mackworth, David Poole, University of British Columbia slides poster paper |
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9:25am-9:45am: |
Leveraging the Singularity: Introducing AI to Liberal Arts Students |
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Jim Marshall, Sarah Lawrence College |
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9:45am-10:05am: |
Emotional Computation in Artificial Intelligence Education |
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10:05am-10:30am: |
Break-out discussion: The challenges of teaching AI: which can we mitigate and which are inevitable? |
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10:30am - 11:00am: Coffee break |
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11:00am - 12:30pm: Session |
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11:00am-11:20am |
Web Crawling as an AI Project |
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Christopher H. Brooks, University of San Fransisco |
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11:20am-11:40am: |
Teaching Forward-Chaining Planning with JAVAFF |
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Andrew Coles, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Amanda Smith, University of Strathclyde |
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11:40am-12:00pm: |
Low-Cost Localization for Educational Robotic Platforms via an External Fixed-Position Camera |
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Drew Housten, William Regli, Drexel University slides |
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12:00pm-12:20pm: |
Just Add Wheels: Leveraging Commodity Laptop Hardware for Robotics and AI Education |
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Jonathan Kelly, Jonathan Binney, Arvind Pereira, Omair Khan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, University of Southern California slides |
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12:20pm-12:40pm: |
Discussion: Big projects vs. smaller assignments: either, neither, or both? |
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12:40pm - 2:00pm: Lunch |
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2:00pm - 3:30pm: Quick Talks - followed by the demo/poster session |
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2:00pm-2:05pm: |
Using surveyor robots to motivate CS1 students |
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John Cummins, M. Q. Azhar, Elizabeth Sklar, City University of New York Brooklyn College slides |
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2:05pm-2:10pm: |
Making Nifty Assignments Niftier and Not So Nifty Assignments Nifty with Online Technologies |
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Susan Imberman, City University of New York, Staten Island slides |
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2:10pm-2:15pm: |
A Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education thorough Robotics |
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William Mongan, William Regli, Drexel University slides |
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2:15pm-2:20pm: |
A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent Agents and Control Systems |
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Dan Tappan, Idaho State University slides |
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2:20pm-2:25pm: |
Making Intelligent Walking Robots Accessible to Educators: A Brain and Sensor Pack for Legged Mobile Robots |
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Jerry Weinberg, William Yu, Kim Wheeler-Smith, Robin Knight, Ross Mead, Ian Bernstein, Jeff Croxell, Doug Webster, of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Road Narrows Robotics, LLC slides |
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2:25pm-2:30pm: |
Teaching Artificial Intelligence Playfully |
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Michael Zyda, Sven Koenig, University of Southern California |
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2:30pm-2:35pm: |
Making Research Tools Accessible for All AI Students |
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Zach Dodds, Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd College, and Sara Sood, Pomona College slides |
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2:35pm-2:40pm: |
Teaching Forward-Chaining Planning with JAVAFF |
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Andrew Coles, University of Strathclyde |
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2:40pm-2:45pm: |
AIspace: Interactive Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence |
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Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia |
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2:45pm - 3:30pm: Demonstrations and Poster presentations |
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3:30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break |
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4:00pm - 5:30pm: Session |
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4:00pm-4:20am: |
Gridworld Search and Rescue: A Project Framework for a Course in Artificial Intelligence |
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Eric Eaton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
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4:20pm-4:40pm: |
Developing a text-based MMORPG to motivate students in CS1 |
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Richard Barnes, Maria Gini, University of Minnesota slides |
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4:40pm-5:00pm: |
A Multi-Agent Team Formation Framework for Classroom Instruction |
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Adam Anthony, Marie desJardins, Steve Martin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County |
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5:00pm-5:30pm: |
Discussion: What should be the future of AI education - and what's the first step? |
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Call for papers html version pdf version
Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 7, 2008
Acceptance notification: April 21, 2008
Final versions due: May 5, 2008
Online Resources
AI Education Colloquium home: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/aieducation
AAAI 2008 workshop program: http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws08.php
AAAI 2008: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php
Call for papers
We invite submissions to AAAI 2008's AI Education colloquium.
The colloquium on AI Education creates a forum where teaching techniques, curricular
resources, and innovations in teaching AI are shared broadly, with an overarching goal of
improving AI education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. To this end, the
colloquium welcomes paper submissions on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to the following: