2006 SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium

该奖项支持美国大学的博士生参加第十一届SIGART/AAAI博士联盟，该联盟将于2006年7月16日至17日在波士顿举行，同时第21届全国人工智能会议(AAAI-06)将于2005年7月16日至20日举行。博士联盟的目标是：(1)提供对与会者当前研究的反馈和对未来研究方向的指导；(2)发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究的精神；(3)支持新一代研究人员；以及(4)通过与会议上其他研究人员的互动为会议做出贡献。博士联盟将努力招收和包括来自代表性不足的群体(例如，女性和代表性不足的少数民族)以及规模较小的学校或人工智能课程较少的学校的学生。每个学生将做25分钟的陈述，然后是20分钟的讨论，由一名教师参与者指导；还将与教师参与者进行一对一的会议。还将有机会在学术和其他职业道路上讨论职业问题。在大会庆祝人工智能50周年的活动中，委员会计划邀请社区中一些非常资深的或创始成员参与博士联盟，例如，通过让他们参与一个名为“20/20视角：我希望在研究生院知道什么”的小组讨论。预计参与者的论文摘要将发表在AI杂志上。

This award supports participation of doctoral students from U.S. universities in the eleventh SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium to be held July 16-17, 2006 in Boston, in conjunction with the 21th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), July 16-20, 2005. The Doctoral Consortium aims to: (1) provide a setting for feedback on participants' current research and guidance on future research directions; (2) develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; (3) support a new generation of researchers; and (4) contribute to the conference through interaction with other researchers at the conference. The Doctoral Consortium will strive to recruit and include students from underrepresented groups (e.g., women and underrepresented minorities) and smaller schools or schools with less established programs in artificial intelligence. Each student will give a 25-minute presentation to be followed by 20 minutes of discussion guided by a faculty participant; there were also be a one-on-one meeting with the faculty participant. There will also be opportunities to discuss career issues in both academic and other career pathways. In conjunction with the general conference's activities celebrating fifty years of AI, the committee plans to solicit participation of some of the very senior or founding members of the community in the Doctoral Consortium, for instance, by having them participate in a "20/20 Perspective: What I Wish I'd Known in Graduate School" panel. It is expected that thesis summaries of the participants will be published in the AI Magazine.