News of August 26, 2017

TU Dresden Reviewers Honoured at Leading AI Conference

The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) is the world largest scientific event that covers all areas of artificial intelligence (AI). For this year's conference in Melbourne, 660 published papers have been selected from a total of 2,540 submissions. To this end, every submission has been anonymously evaluated by at least three members of an international program committee in a complex peer review process. To acknowledge the work of the 1,068 program committee members, the reviewers themselves have been evaluated internally, and the top ten reviewers have been named at the conference. Remarkably, three of the top ten reviewers are members of the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science of TU Dresden: Stefan Borgwardt and Ismail Ilkan Ceylan from the chair for Automata Theory and Markus Krötzsch from the chair of Knowledge-Based Systems have been acknowledged for their effort.

The Faculty of Computer Science has moreover been represented with an impressive amount of five accepted submissions at this year's event. A very special honour has been given to Sebastian Rudolph (Computational Logic), who was named the best human player at the co-located Angry Birds AI Competition 2017. Hence there are still areas, after all, where artificial intelligence is not superior to humankind yet.

More info at: https://ijcai-17.org