2006 SIGART/AAAI Doctoral Consortium

该奖项支持参加2006年7月16日至17日在波士顿举行的第十一届SIGART/AAAI博士联盟的美国大学博士生，该联盟与2005年7月16日至20日举行的第21届全国人工智能会议（AAAI-06）相结合。博士联盟旨在：(1)为参与者提供一个反馈当前研究和指导未来研究方向的场所；(2)建立一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究精神；(3)支持新一代科研人员；(4)通过与会议上其他研究人员的互动为会议做出贡献。博士联盟将努力招募并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）、规模较小的学校或人工智能项目较少的学校的学生。每位学生将做一个25分钟的演讲，然后在教师的指导下进行20分钟的讨论；我们还与教师参与者进行了一对一的会面。也将有机会讨论学术和其他职业道路上的职业问题。结合大会庆祝人工智能诞生50周年的活动，委员会计划邀请一些非常资深的或博士联盟的社区创始成员参加，例如，让他们参加一个“20/20视角：我希望我在研究生院就知道什么”的小组讨论。预计与会人员的论文总结将在《AI Magazine》上发表。

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.