Welcome to AI Topics

WELCOME to our new site incorporating an exciting Wiki-based system that merges AI Topics and AI Videos. This site reflects AAAI's commitment and ongoing effort to effectively communicate the science of AI to interested people around the world.

AI TOPICS is a virtual library for students, teachers, journalists, and everyone who would like to explore what artificial intelligence is, and what AI scientists do. By offering a limited number of exemplary, non-technical resources that we have organized and annotated, we seek to provide you with meaningful access to basic, understandable information about the AI universe.

AI VIDEOS is the part of AITopics cataloging videos about AI stored digitally on other sites, or physically in institutional archives. For each video, the archive includes a brief description of the contents and personae of the video, one or more representative, short clips for classroom or individual use, and the location of the archival copy (e.g., at a university library). Funding for this project is from the NSF (Award #0738341).

Video is fast becoming the most effective communications channel. For example, in Online video is transforming perceptions of science. By Matthew Busse. New Scientist (Issue 2612: July 11, 2007).

AAAI Members are invited to participate.

YOU MAY EDIT information on existing pages yourself:

• If you are an editor, simply click on the Edit link found at the top of any page. For basic instruction for editing Wiki pages, see the information at the bottom of the edit page.
• To become an editor, send a message to videos08@aaai.org.
• To suggest changes or for other issues, send a message to: videos08@aaai.org or edit the Project Notes page.

AN ARTICLE about these sites and the benefits of the collaborative environment appears in AI Magazine.

• B.G. Buchanan, J. Glick and R.G. Smith. The AAAI Video Archive. AI Magazine, 29(1): 91-94, Spring 2008.

Information on our ongoing work can be found under Project Notes.