EAAI-17 Program Schedule

last updated: Feb, 2017

EAAI papers are available online via the online schedule (Guidebook). EAAI posters will be presented Monday, February 6 in the AAAI-17 Poster / Demo Session in the Imperial Ballroom.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

9:00-9:05am EAAI-17 Welcome
Sven Koenig and Eric Eaton

• Slide Overview of EAAI-17

9:05-10:05am EAAI Invited Talk Ayanna Howard
Slides

10:05-10:30 EAAI Accepted Papers I: Main Track

• Recovering Concept Prerequisite Relations from University Course Dependencies
  Chen Liang, Jianbo Ye, Zhaohui Wu, Bart Pursel, C. Lee Giles
• Poster Spotlight: AI Projects for Computer Science Capstone Classes
  Matthew E. Taylor, Sakire Arslan Ay
• Poster Spotlight: Online SPARC for Drawing and Animation
  Elias Marcopulos, Maede Rayatidamavandi, Crisel Suarez, Yuanlin Zhang

10:30-11:00am Coffee Break

11:00-12:10pm EAAI Model AI Assignments I

• An Introduction to Monte Carlo Techniques in AI – Part II
  Todd Neller
• Organic Pathfinding
  Joshua Eckroth
• Implementing a Hidden Markov Model Toolkit
  Sravana Reddy
• Visual Servoing
  Ariel Anders, Sertac Karaman
• Poster Spotlight: Application for AI-OCR Module: Auto Detection of Emails/Letter Images
  Kelsey Fargas, Bingjie Zhou, Elizabeth Staruk, Sheila Tejada
• Poster Spotlight: Exploring Artificial Intelligence Through Image Recognition
  Kelsey Fargas, Bingjie Zhou, Elizabeth Staruk, Sheila Tejada

12:10-2:15pm Lunch Break

2:15-2:30pm EAAI Accepted Papers II: REU Track

• A Summer Research Experience in Robotics
  Cindy M. Grimm, Alicia Lyman-Holt, William D. Smart
  Slides

2:30-3:30pm NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites
Panelists: Georgios Anagnostopoulos, Stephanie E. August, Zach Dodds and Bill Smart.
Moderated by Eric Eaton.

3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break

4:00-4:50pm EAAI Not-So-Grand (NSG) Challenge I

• Cornhole: A Widely-Accessible AI Robotics Task
  Nate Derbinsky, Tyler M. Frasca
• A Monte Carlo Localization Assignment Using a Neato Vacuum with ROS
  Zuozhi Yang, Todd W. Neller
• An Image Wherever You Look! Making Vision Just Another Sensor for AI/Robotics Projects
  Andy Zhang, John Lee, Ciante Jones, Zachary Dodds
• Open-Ended Robotics Exploration Projects for Budding Researchers
  David R. Musicant, Abha Laddha, Tom Choi
• Creating Serious Robots that Improve Society
  Susan P. Imberman, Jean McManus, Gina Otts
• Dude, Where’s My Robot? A Localization Challenge for Undergraduate Robotics
  Paul Ruvolo

4:50-5:00pm Short Break

5:00-5:50pm EAAI Blue Sky Ideas in AI Education from the New and Future AI Educator Program

• Bridging Across Disciplines
  Claudia Schulz
• Student-Centric Discovery
  Francesco Maurelli
• AI in K-12 Education
  John Lee
• The Role of Ethics in AI Education
  Joshua Eckroth
• AI Education through Real-World Problems
  Mark Crowley
• Making AI Concepts More Accessible
  Richard G. Freedman
• Rethinking the AI Ethics Education Context
  Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera
• Lifelong Kindergarten for AI
  Tiago Machado
• Training Students in AI Ethics
  Tom Williams

5:50-6:30pm EAAI Demos

Open Demos and Hands-on Explorations

Monday, February 6, 2017

10:00-11:00am EAAI Panel - AI Ethics Education

Moderated by Sven Koenig (University of Southern California)
Panelists: Benjamin Kuipers (University of Michigan), Judy Goldsmith (University of Kentucky), and Illah R. Nourbakhsh (Carnegie Mellon University CREATE Lab)
Sponsored by the Future of Life Institute
The panel will discuss how, as educators, we can incorporate ethical issues into undergraduate or graduate AI classes, such as the following questions: Do we need to worry about the reliability, robustness, and safety of AI systems? Do we need to provide oversight of their operation? How do we guarantee that their behavior is consistent with social norms and human values? Who is liable for incorrect AI decisions? How will AI technology impact standard of living, distribution and quality of work, and other social and economic aspects?

Slides:

• Sven Koenig
• Judy Goldsmith part1 part2

11:00-11:30pm Coffee Break

11:30-12:15pm EAAI Model AI Assignments II

• An Introduction to Behavior-Based Robotics
  Joshua Ziegler, Jason Bindewald, Gilbert Peterson
• Machine Learning for Everyone: Introduction to Classification and Clustering
  Thomas Way, Paula Matuszek, Lillian Cassel, Mary-Angela Papalaskari, Carol Weiss
• Git Planner
  Joshua Eckroth

12:15-12:30pm EAAI Accepted Papers III: AI for Education and Outreach

ARTY: Fueling Creativity through Art, Robotics and Technology for Youth
Debra T. Burhans, Karthik Dantu

12:30-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-2:50pm AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award Talk

Sebastian Thrun

2:50-3:30pm EAAI Panel - AI for Education

Moderated by Sheila Tejada (University of Southern California)
Panelists: Yolanda Gil (USC Information Sciences Institute), Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech), Peter Norvig (Google), Mehran Salami (Stanford University), and Sebastian Thrun (Udacity, KittyHawk, Stanford, Georgia Tech)
The panel will discuss how we can apply AI techniques in the domain of education to improve teaching, student evaluation, and learning. The panelists will talk about which aspects of the education problem they were able to address with AI and give insight into the education space, suggesting where other educators and researchers can apply AI tools to improve their own teaching or student learning.