Panels
Digital Humanism – our relationship to technology
26.07. 11:15 – 12:30, Strauss 2-3
- Virginia Dignum, Umea University (Sweden)
- Gerti Kappel, TU Wien (Austria), dean of the faculty of Informatics, background in formal SE
- Peter Knees. TU Wien (Austria) and expert in recommender systems and music retrieval
- Sabine Köszegi. TU Wien (Austria), Member of the EU high level group on AI
- Carles Sierra, AI Research Institute (Spain) and President EurAI
- Toby Walsh, School of CSE, UNSW Sidney (Australia) and CSIRO Data 61
AI made in Europe – What is it? Is it important?
27.07. 11:15 – 12:30, Strauss 2-3
- Holger Hoos, RWTH Aachen University (Germany)
- Michela Milano, University of Bologna (Italy)
- Francesca Rossi, IBM Research (USA)
- Michael Wooldridge, University of Oxford (UK)
Panel: Trustworthy AI for Good: Challenges, Lessons Learnt, and Synergies
27.07. 15:30 – 16:30, Strauss 2-3
In this discussion, we plan to address issues of multidisciplinarity, scaling and sustainability of the business model, collaborative platforms, multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder research and development environments, education, and culture change.
Moderator: Francesca Rossi, University of Padua (Italy)
Panelists:
- Virginia Dignum: Umea University (Sweden)
- Carles Sierra, AI Research Institute (Spain) and President EurAI
- Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director CRCS Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard School of Engineering (USA)
Highly refereed AI conferences
28.07. 11:15 – 12:30, Strauss 2-3
Due to a rapidly increasing number of submissions, running the paper selection process at large AI conferences has become more and more challenging, and the results may not be fully satisfactory to multiple parties. This panel is devoted to discussing issues around this: how to cope with thousands of submissions, and how to warrant quality of reviews? How does this increase in numbers affect the relative role of conferences and journals, especially in connection with funding and academic promotion? Are recent methods of desk-rejecting papers a good solution? Are journal first publication models a good alternative method?
- Luc De Raedt: KU Leuven (Belgium) and Örebro University (Sweden)
- Maria Gini: College of Science & Engineering Distinguished Professor, University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering (USA)
- Peter Stone: University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Austin (USA) and Executive Director of Sony AI America
- Christian Bessiere: Researcher at the University of Montpellier, LIRMM (France)