AI Education Colloquium at AAAI 2008

		AAAI 2008
		AI Education Colloquium

Welcome to the home page for the AAAI 2008 AI Education Colloquium.

This meeting will explore resources and curricula that effectively engage
a wide range of audiences with artificial intelligence in all of its forms.

Join us!

The AAAI registration page - the early registration deadline is Friday, May 16.
The AAAI 2008 webpage

Tentative Schedule

(AAAI allows authors to post papers on personal web pages, linked here, but not in a repository such as this site.)


AI Colloquium ~ Sunday July 13, 2008

9:00am - 10:30am: Session

	9:00am-9:05am:	AI colloquium welcome and introductions
		Event Organizers, Kiri Wagstaff, Zach Dodds, and Haym Hirsh

	9:05am-9:25am:	AIspace: Interactive Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence
		Byron Knoll, Jacek Kisynski, Giuseppe Carenini, Cristina Conati, Alan Mackworth, David Poole, University of British Columbia

	9:25am-9:45am:	Leveraging the Singularity: Introducing AI to Liberal Arts Students
		Jim Marshall, Sarah Lawrence College

	9:45am-10:05am:	Emotional Computation in Artificial Intelligence Education
		Sara Sood, Pomona College

	10:05am-10:30am:	Break-out discussion: The challenges of teaching AI: which can we mitigate and which are inevitable?


10:30am - 11:00am: Coffee break

11:00am - 12:30pm: Session

	11:00am-11:20am	Web Crawling as an AI Project
		Christopher H. Brooks, University of San Fransisco

	11:20am-11:40am:	Teaching Forward-Chaining Planning with JAVAFF
		Andrew Coles, Maria Fox, Derek Long, Amanda Smith, University of Strathclyde

	11:40am-12:00pm:	Low-Cost Localization for Educational Robotic Platforms via an External Fixed-Position Camera
		Drew Housten, William Regli, Drexel University

	12:00pm-12:20pm:	Just Add Wheels: Leveraging Commodity Laptop Hardware for Robotics and AI Education
		Jonathan Kelly, Jonathan Binney, Arvind Pereira, Omair Khan, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, University of Southern California

	12:20pm-12:40pm:	Discussion: Big projects vs. smaller assignments: either, neither, or both?


12:40pm - 2:00pm: Lunch

2:00pm - 3:30pm: Quick Talks - followed by the demo/poster session

	2:00pm-2:05pm:	Using surveyor robots to motivate CS1 students
		John Cummins, M. Q. Azhar, Elizabeth Sklar, City University of New York Brooklyn College

	2:05pm-2:10pm:	Making Nifty Assignments Niftier and Not So Nifty Assignments Nifty with Online Technologies
		Susan Imberman, City University of New York, Staten Island

	2:10pm-2:15pm:	A Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education thorough Robotics
		William Mongan, William Regli, Drexel University

	2:15pm-2:20pm:	A Pedagogical Framework for Modeling and Simulating Intelligent Agents and Control Systems
		Dan Tappan, Idaho State University

	2:20pm-2:25pm:	Making Intelligent Walking Robots Accessible to Educators: A Brain and Sensor Pack for Legged Mobile Robots
		Jerry Weinberg, William Yu, Kim Wheeler-Smith, Robin Knight, Ross Mead, Ian Bernstein, Jeff Croxell, Doug Webster, of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Road Narrows Robotics, LLC

	2:25pm-2:30pm:	Teaching Artificial Intelligence Playfully
		Michael Zyda, Sven Koenig, University of Southern California

	2:30pm-2:35pm:	Making Research Tools Accessible for All AI Students
		Zach Dodds, Christine Alvarado, Harvey Mudd College, and Sara Sood, Pomona College

	2:35pm-2:40pm:	Teaching Forward-Chaining Planning with JAVAFF
		Andrew Coles, University of Strathclyde

	2:40pm-2:45pm:	AIspace: Interactive Tools for Learning Artificial Intelligence
		Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia


2:45pm - 3:30pm: Demonstrations and Poster presentations

3:30pm - 4:00pm: Coffee break

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Session

	4:00pm-4:20am:	Gridworld Search and Rescue: A Project Framework for a Course in Artificial Intelligence
		Eric Eaton, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

	4:20pm-4:40pm:	Developing a text-based MMORPG to motivate students in CS1
		Richard Barnes, Maria Gini, University of Minnesota

	4:40pm-5:00pm:	A Multi-Agent Team Formation Framework for Classroom Instruction
		Adam Anthony, Marie desJardins, Steve Martin, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

	5:00pm-5:30pm:	Discussion: What should be* the future of AI education - and what's the first step?*

Older AI Colloquium Materials

Call for papers html version pdf version

Important Dates

Submission deadline: April 7, 2008
Acceptance notification: April 21, 2008
Final versions due: May 5, 2008

Online Resources

AI Education Colloquium home: http://www.cs.hmc.edu/aieducation
AAAI 2008 workshop program: http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws08.php
AAAI 2008: http://www.aaai.org/Conferences/AAAI/aaai08.php

Call for papers

We invite submissions to AAAI 2008's AI Education colloquium.

The colloquium on AI Education creates a forum where teaching techniques, curricular resources, and innovations in teaching AI are shared broadly, with an overarching goal of improving AI education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. To this end, the colloquium welcomes paper submissions on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to the following:

Educational resources, including syllabi, assignments, project ideas, and pedagogical strategies, related to teaching AI in post-secondary environments

Multi-disciplinary curricula highlighting the application of AI in other contexts (computational biology, algorithmic game theory, computational economics, etc.) and/or the theoretical concepts of roots of AI from other fields (philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics, psychology)

The use of robotics and other tangible media both in AI courses and elsewhere in the curriculum

Software that assists the teaching/learning process - everything from software to help visualize search spaces and search algorithms, to software substrates that can be used by students to do projects

Resources and strategies for teaching specific AI subareas or topics: machine learning, robotics, computer vision, natural language processing, game playing, and many others

Strategies for appropriately situating AI within a wider CS curriculum

Ways to incorporate or address popular entertainment and media portrayal of AI (in movies, news, advertisements, new products, etc.)

Real-world examples of successful AI deployments, described in sufficient detail to provide case studies and/or serve as useful springboards for other teachers

Innovative means for integrating research as part of coursework in AI

Submission Guidelines

Papers between 2-6 pages should be submitted by April 7, 2008.
Please email submissions in .pdf or .doc format to dodds@cs.hmc.edu.

Although initial submissions need not follow a particular style, final versions of accepted papers (due May 5, 2008) must follow AAAI formatting guidelines for publication, available at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php . AAAI will publish the AI Education colloquium proceedings as a technical report. In addition, selected topics from the colloquium may be presented within a panel session or as posters at AAAI 2008.

The AI Teaching Forum

This colloquium is a centerpiece of the AAAI 2008 Teaching Forum, a series of AAAI events that create a "teaching track" through the conference. Four events constitute the Teaching Forum: this colloquium, a video session track, a panel in the main technical program, and a subset of the conference's poster presentations.

Please address any questions, concerns, or comments to

Zachary Dodds (dodds@cs.hmc.edu)
Haym Hirsh (hhirsh@nsf.gov)
Kiri Wagstaff (kiri.wagstaff@jpl.nasa.gov)
co-chairs, AAAI Education Colloquium, 2008