The first two days at IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) in Macau were focussed on workshops and tutorials. Here’s an overview in tweets.

Welcome

First demo at #ijcai2019: grad students are still superior to robots at reception desks pic.twitter.com/49beH9qBcl

— Emmanuel Hebrard (@EmmanuelHebrard) August 10, 2019

Papers

#ijcai2019 proceedings are now indexed by #dblp – https://t.co/wpB1UDDdJn

— dblp (@dblp_org) August 8, 2019

Workshops

AI Multimodal Analytics for Education

Starting off the workshop AI Multimodal Analytics 4 Education #AIMA4Edu @ #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/OpxznIq6Jh

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 11, 2019

SDGs&AI

First talk of SDGs&AI workshop at #IJCAI2019 Takayoki Ito pic.twitter.com/DjfACOoayY

— Serge Stinckwich (@SergeStinckwich) August 11, 2019

AI Safety

Yang Liu "Last year Europe implementated GDPR. And we want to follow it. China and America implementated stricter privacy rules due to it." @AISafetyWS #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/lh0sqJdIoH

— Andreas Theodorou ✈️ #IJCAI2019 (@RecklessCoding) August 11, 2019

EduAI

@cynthiabreazeal speaks about ai education projects in MIT – I known a little belgian researcher Who would love to meet all the concerned research teams 😏 #eduai2019 #ijcai2019 pic.twitter.com/4PwMXIJOZ3

— Julie Henry (@HenryJulie) August 11, 2019

Tutorials
The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception

#ijcai2019 #day2 Tutorial on ‘The AI Universe of “Actions”: Agency, Causality, Commonsense and Deception’ by Chitta Baral (ASU) and Tran Cao Son (NMSU)
끊임없이 변하는 Actions을 이해하는 것은 상황 인식, 계획, 상식, 인과 추론 등 AI 전분야에서 핵심적인 https://t.co/qQIzqLaLkW

— Woontack Woo (우운택) (@wwoo_ct) August 11, 2019

An Introduction to Formal Argumentation

Martin Caminada explaining the "preferred discussion game" at @IJCAIconf tutorial "an introduction to formal argumentation"#ijcai2019 #argumentation pic.twitter.com/2eSeKoZdbQ

— Shohreh (@ShohrehHd) August 11, 2019

AI Ethics

Lots of applications rise #ethical concerns, @razzrboy show and comment some of them.#AI #AIEthics #IJCAI_2019 @IJCAIconf pic.twitter.com/OOr2EUUsBE

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 11, 2019

Interesting tutorial about #AIEthics at #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/GnjDuj6OFN

— Nedjma Ousidhoum (@nedjmaou) August 11, 2019

Last Q&A part running now.

"As #AI has a growing impact on society, important #ethical issues arise, [but they] are tricky, lack of right methodological tools."

"Speculation about the future of #AI is fun, but not very productive." @razzrboy#AIEthics @IJCAIconf #IJCAI2019 pic.twitter.com/IYAImvWFG6

— Dagmar Monett (@dmonett) August 11, 2019

 
Congratulations to the authors of the announced best workshop papers!

Surprised and happy to receive the *best paper award* at the AIMA4EDU workshop at #IJCAI2019 today in Macao. Thanks to @zpardos and @kpthaiphd for hosting and to @SuperHeroBooth @marcuspecht and @HDrachsler for the support!#Multimodal #Pipeline wins again :-) pic.twitter.com/KahgrDsLZ0

— Daniele Di Mitri (@dimstudi0) August 11, 2019

Congratulations @aloreggia #NickMattei @frossi_t #KBrentVenable! Well-deserved! @CSERCambridge @AAIP_York @IJCAIconf #ijcai2019 #aiethics #AIFATES #aies #AIandSociety https://t.co/v0WU9tP2lp

— William H. Hsu (@banazir) August 11, 2019

Stay tuned as I’ll be covering the conference as an AIhub ambassador.