Artificial Intelligence Committee
The ACS National Committee for Artificial Intelligence takes care of Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) series. It also offers the AI-related information and services to Australasian AI-related research centres, AI Researcher profiles, AI-related conference CFPs, job advertisements and scholarships.
The committee is principally a working committee in that all of its members perform some functions that, it is hoped, is to the benefit of the Australasian AI community. The committee usually meets once a year during the annual conference. The agenda of these meetings is substantially concerned with management of past, present and future conferences, and with the work that the Committee members have done during the year.
Membership
Members of the Committee fall into four main groups:
- 'Volunteers’ who provide the committee's services -- volunteers who are interested in working on the committee are most welcome and should contact the Committee Chair
- 'Conference representatives' for each conference for which its accounts have yet to be closed -- this provides a valuable 'corporate memory' function from one conference to the next
- 'State representatives' for any state not represented by a conference representative - the default mechanism is: the 'old' conference representive for that state remains on the committee until a conference representative for the 'next' conference in that sState is appointed
- 'Honorary members' to augment the committee's corporate memory
Services
The main services provided by the committee to the Australasian AI community are:
- the maintenance and promotion of these public webpages
- the maintenance of a list of Australasian researchers' homepages
- the provision of a range of assistance to local conference organisers (including sponsorship, seed funding, industry contacts, financial and administrative advice)
- any other services that will benefit the Australasian AI community and for which a volunteer can be found to do the job
Objectives
The ACS National Committee for Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems was formed in 1986 (it was renamed to be "The Australian Computer Society's National Committee for Artificial Intelligence" on 4 December 2006) with the following objectives:
- to provide a national focus for artificial intelligence
- to stimulate artificial intelligence research and development in industry
- to promote the use of artificial intelligence products in industry, business and government
- to foster artificial intelligence research and education
- to disseminate knowledge of artificial intelligence techniques and applications in the computing community
- to raise the level of public informed comment about artificial intelligence issues.