EAAI-21

What's New (rev. July 9, 2020)

EAAI-21 will be held virtually
EAAI-21 will be held virtually February 6-7, 2021. More information will be posted here as it becomes available. You can also look for news on the AAAI-21 conference website
EAAI-21 CFP is available now
The call for papers is posted here and on the AAAI-21 website

Important Dates

Submission Dates

Abstract submission due: September 1, 2020 11:59pm UTC-12
Paper submission deadline: September 9, 2020 11:59pm UTC-12
Notification date: November 13, 2020
Camera-ready copy due to AAAI: TBD
Symposium dates: February 6-7, 2021

About EAAI

The Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-21) will be held virtually along with AAAI-21.

EAAI-21 provides a venue for researchers and educators to discuss pedagogical issues and share resources related to teaching and using AI in education across a variety of curricular levels (K-12 through postgraduate training), with an emphasis on undergraduate and graduate teaching and learning. The symposium seeks contributions showing how to more effectively teach AI, as well as how themes from AI may be used to enhance education more broadly (for example, in introductory computing courses or as a means for teaching computational thinking). We encourage the sharing of innovative educational approaches that convey or leverage AI and its many subfields, including robotics, machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and others.

EAAI-21 is expected to include invited talks (including a talk of the recipient of the AAAI/EAAI Outstanding AI Educator Award 2021); Model AI Assignments; special tracks on Demos, Software Tools, and Activities for Teaching AI in K-12, Gin Rummy Undergraduate Research Challenge, and other exciting activities.

Call for Participation

The call for participation is now available here and on the AAAI site

EAAI-21 provides several submission types:

Full-length papers (7 pages, plus up to 2 pages of references - use AAAI-21 style guidelines)
Model AI Assignments (abstract, plus files - use custom guidelines)

All submissions should be anonymous for double-blind review.

EAAI-2021 Undergraduate Research Challenge

Announcing the Gin Rummy EAAI-2021 Undergraduate Research Challenge:

Now seeking faculty-mentored undergraduate research teams to perform research and submit game AI bots competition and papers for peer-review and possible publication and presentation at EAAI-2021: The Eleventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence.
$500 in ACM SIGAI prize money will be awarded for the best papers.
Topic: Gin Rummy AI Players

Resources to get started:

Video introduction: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/games/ginrummy/eaai/eaai20-ginrummy.mp4
Video slides: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/papers/talks/eaai20-gin-rummy.pdf
Competition base code: http://cs.gettysburg.edu/~tneller/games/ginrummy/eaai/code/
Gin Rummy rules: https://www.pagat.com/rummy/ginrummy.html (We'll use a 25 point bonus for both gin and undercutting).

Please contact Todd Neller @ Gettysburg College if you are interested in forming a team.

Contact Information

Michael Guerzhoy Princeton University
http://guerzhoy.princeton.edu
Lisa Torrey St. Lawrence University
http://myslu.stlawu.edu/~ltorrey/

AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award

The AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator award is presented annually to a person (or group of people) who has made major contributions to AI education that provide long-lasting benefits to the AI community. Examples include innovating teaching methods, providing service to the AI education community, generating pedagogical resources, designing curricula, and educating students outside of higher education venues (or the general public) about AI.

The award consists of a certificate, a $1,000 honorarium, complimentary one-year AAAI membership (new or renewal), and free conference registration to the upcoming EAAI conference and co-located AAAI conference where the award will be conferred. Additional information and nomination instructions are available at http://www.aaai.org/Awards/eaai-award.php, or by writing to eaaiaward@aaai.org.

Past Proceedings

The proceedings of the prior symposia are available:
2017-2020 | 2016 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010

The repository of Model AI assignments is also available:
2010-2020

Support for EAAI

Generous support for EAAI is made available by: