AI Video Competition
Deadline for Submissions Extended to Monday, June 2!
AAAI solicits submissions for the second annual video competition! Its goal is to show the world how much fun AI is by documenting exciting artificial intelligence advances in research, education, and application. The rules are simple: Compose a short video about an exciting AI project, and narrate it so that it is accessible to a broad online audience. Accepted videos will be screened in the AAAI-08 registration area on Monday, 14 July 2008. During that evening's session, the developers of the best videos will be formally presented with awards. We strongly encourage student participation. So go ahead and make a cool online video about your AI project, and get a ton of attention!
Video Formats
Choose to make either a 1 minute (max) "short video" or a 5 minute (max) "long video," with English narration (or subtitles). Consider combining screen shots, interviews, and video of a system in action. Make the video self-contained, so that newcomers to AI can understand and learn from it. We encourage a good sense of humor, but will only accept submissions with serious AI content. Your video might cover contemporary research, or document seminal AI research in the past. Creativity is encouraged!
New for 2008
New for 2008 is first, the Educational Video Track (managed by Michael Bowling, as part of the AI Teaching Forum) for classroom-focused videos; and second, the Special Achievement Award.
Submissions
Submit your video to a publicly-accessible www site and notify the cochairs: David Aha (david.aha@nrl.navy.mil) and Sebastian Thrun (thrun@stanford.edu). Videos must not contain any copyrighted video, audio, or characters. Developers of accepted videos will be asked to sign release and copyright forms.
Key Dates
- NEW Submission Deadline: 2 June 2008
- Reviewing Decision Notifications and Award Nominations: 16 June 2008
- Final Versions Due: 30 June 2008
- Screening and Award Presentations: 14 July 2008 (tentative)
Reviewing
Reviewing will be conducted by a committee that will be formed by the cochairs. Reviewing criteria (from most to least-weighted) will be as follows:
- Relevance to AI (research, instructional, and/or application)
- Degree of excitement: Entertainment value, enticing, novelty, etc.
- Educational content
- Presentation
Award Categories
Best (Long), Best Short, Best Student, Best Educational, and Most Visionary. (Other categories may be added at the discretion of the cochairs.)
Awards
Trophies named in honor of SRI's Shakey robot and its inspirational video.
Sponsors
Thanks to Google, Microsoft Research, Yahoo! Research, and the AAAI AI Video Archive Project for sponsoring the awards, and to the Jozef Stefan Institute and Knexus Research Corporation for their technical support
AI Video Competition Cochairs
David Aha (david.aha@nrl.navy.mil) and Sebastian Thrun (thrun@stanford.edu).
Program Committee
- Aha, David (NRL), Cochair
- Michael Bowling (University of Alberta), Educational Video Track Chair
- Bruce Buchanan (University of Pittsburgh); Advisor, AAAI Video Virtual Archive Project
- Yu-Han Chang (USC ISI)
- Anders Christensen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Frederick Crabbe (USNA)
- Carlos Diuk (Rutgers University)
- Patrick Doherty (Linkoping University)
- Marco Dorigo (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Marko Grobelnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Kalyan Moy Gupta (Knexus Research)
- Mitja Jermol (Jozef Stefan Institute)
- Ugur Kuter (University of Maryland)
- Stephen Lee Urban (Lehigh University)
- Michael van Lent (Soar Technology)
- Cynthia Matuszek (University of Washington)
- Héctor Muñoz-Avila (Lehigh University)
- David Musliner (Honeywell)
- Rehan O'Grady (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Ray Perrault (SRI International)
- Marc Pickett (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
- Alan Schultz (NRL)
- Ken Stanley (University of Central Florida)
- David Stavens (Stanford University)
- Gita Sukthankar (University of Central Florida)
- Sebastian Thrun (Stanford University), Cochair
- Ian Watson (University of Auckland)
- Rosina Weber (Drexel University)
- Michael Youngblood (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
The AI Video Competition call for papers and participation is also available as a printable PDF document
Further information is available at the AI Video website.