EAAI-17: The 7th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence
San Francisco, CA United States (Collocated with AAAI-17)
February 5-6, 2017
Sponsored by the [Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence](http://www.aaai.org/)
EAAI-17
The Seventh Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI-17) was held the 5th and 6th of February 2017 in San Francisco, CA. The symposium was collocated with AAAI-17.
Dates
- September 14, 2016: Paper submission deadline
- November 9, 2016: Notification date:
- November 28, 2015: Camera-ready copy due to AAAI
- February 5-6, 2017: Symposium dates
Program Schedule
Sunday, February 5, 2017
9:00-9:05am EAAI-17 Welcome
Sven Koenig and Eric Eaton
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.
Registration
The AAAI-17/IAAI-17 technicial program registration includes participation in EAAI-17 for invited participants and other interested individuals.
Paper Submission
Paper submission deadline: September 14, 2016
EAAI-17 Main Paper Track submissions should be in one of the following formats:
- Full-length papers (6 pages + 1 page of references) and presentations for the symposium
- Extended abstract/poster contributions (2 pages) highlighting preliminary or ongoing work
Abstract and Paper Submission
Complete details on submission requirements, including paper formatting guidelines, will be available at the AAAI's EAAI-17 web site. Please pay careful attention to the submission instructions provided.
EAAI follows AAAI formatting therefore use the 2017 AAAI Author Kit. Note, the author kit provides AAAI style files and formatting information. It is NOT NECESSARY to do the following at the submission stage (only if your paper is accepted):
- Submit source files
- Submit copyright form
- Include copyright slug on paper
It is MANDATORY that you meet the following requirements:
- Papers must not exceed six pages + 1 page of references during the submission phase.
- Papers must be formatted for BLIND review with NO AUTHOR or AFFLIATION information included in the paper.
The EAAI-17 proceedings will be published by AAAI.
Policy Concerning Submissions to Other Conferences or Journals
EAAI-17 will not consider any paper that, at the time of submission, is under review for or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Once submitted to EAAI-17, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during EAAI/AAAI's review period. These restrictions apply only to refereed journals and conferences, not to unrefereed forums or workshops with a limited audience and without archival proceedings. Authors must confirm that their submissions conform to these requirements at the time of submission.
Model AI Assignments
Individuals interested in submitting work to the Model AI Assignments Session should consult the submission instructions at the Model AI Assignments web site.
Organizers
Program co-Chairs
-
Eric Eaton
University of Pennsylvania
eeaton@seas.upenn.edu -
Sven Koenig
University of Southern California
skoenig@usc.edu
Organizing Committee
- Jim Boerkoel, Harvey Mudd College (boerkoel@cs.hmc.edu)
- Laura Brown, Michigan Technological University (lebrown@mtu.edu)
- Zachary Dodds, Harvey Mudd College (dodds@cs.hmc.edu)
- Todd Neller, Gettysburg College (tneller@gettysburg.edu)
- Matthew Taylor, Washington State University (taylorm@eecs.wsu.edu)
- Sheila Tejada, University of Southern California (stejada@usc.edu)
Program Committee
Main Track
- Eric Aaron
- Georgios Anagnostopoulos
- Amos Azaria
- Jason Bindewald
- James Boerkoel
- Nate Derbinsky
- Douglas Fisher
- Olac Fuentes
- David Furcy
- Ashok Goel
- James Glenn
- Larry Holder
- Susan Imberman
- Vibhu Mittal
- Eni Mustafaraj
- Peter Norvig
- Keith O'Hara
- Raghuram Ramanujan
- Vasile Rus
- Paul Ruvolo
- Mehran Sahami
- Elizabeth Sklar
- Sharon Small
- Bill Smart
- George Thomas
- Kiri Wagstaff
- William Yeoh
- Sarah Zelikovitz
- Yuanlin Zhang
Model AI Assignment Track
- Stephanie August
- Steven Bogaerts
- Chris Brooks
- Debra Burhans
- Giuseppe Carenini
- Ananya Christman
- Diane Cook
- Susan Fox
- David Kauchak
- Alan Mackworth
- Jim Marshall
- Fred Martin
- Robert McCartney
- Lisa Meeden
- Jeffrey Pfaffmann
- David Poole
- Anna Rafferty
- Devika Subramanian
- Lisa Torrey
- Doug Turnbull
- Michael Wollowski
Other Links
The following links are to various material on AAAI-17 and EAAI-17.