The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membership group,reporting nearly 110,000 student and professional members as of 2022. Its headquarters are in New York City.
Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher,best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011,the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award,the highest distinction in computer science,"for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books,including the technical Causality:Models,Reasoning and Inference,and The Book of Why,a book on causality aimed at the general public.
James Alexander Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,United States,and one of the originators of the Semantic Web. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
Ekaterini Panagiotou Sycara is a Greek computer scientist. She is an Edward Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics in the Robotics Institute,School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University internationally known for her research in artificial intelligence,particularly in the fields of negotiation,autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. She directs the Advanced Agent-Robotics Technology Lab at Robotics Institute,Carnegie Mellon University. She also serves as academic advisor for PhD students at both Robotics Institute and Tepper School of Business.
Swoogle was a search engine for Semantic Web ontologies,documents,terms and data published on the Web. Swoogle employed a system of crawlers to discover RDF documents and HTML documents with embedded RDF content. Swoogle reasoned about these documents and their constituent parts and recorded and indexed meaningful metadata about them in its database.
Amit Sheth is a computer scientist at University of South Carolina in Columbia,South Carolina. He is the founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Institute,and a professor of Computer Science and Engineering. From 2007 to June 2019,he was the Lexis Nexis Ohio Eminent Scholar,director of the Ohio Center of Excellence in Knowledge-enabled Computing,and a professor of Computer Science at Wright State University. Sheth's work has been cited by over 48,800 publications. He has an h-index of 117,which puts him among the top 100 computer scientists with the highest h-index. Prior to founding the Kno.e.sis Center,he served as the director of the Large Scale Distributed Information Systems Lab at the University of Georgia in Athens,Georgia.
William Aaron Woods,generally known as Bill Woods,is a researcher in natural language processing,continuous speech understanding,knowledge representation,and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.
Eric Joel Horvitz is an American computer scientist,and Technical Fellow at Microsoft,where he serves as the company's first Chief Scientific Officer. He was previously the director of Microsoft Research Labs,including research centers in Redmond,WA,Cambridge,MA,New York,NY,Montreal,Canada,Cambridge,UK,and Bangalore,India.
David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence,including constraint satisfaction,case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death,was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.
In natural language processing and information retrieval,explicit semantic analysis (ESA) is a vectoral representation of text that uses a document corpus as a knowledge base. Specifically,in ESA,a word is represented as a column vector in the tf–idf matrix of the text corpus and a document is represented as the centroid of the vectors representing its words. Typically,the text corpus is English Wikipedia,though other corpora including the Open Directory Project have been used.
Munindar P. Singh is a SAS institute distinguished professor and a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. Singh is an IEEE Fellow,a AAAI Fellow,a AAAS Fellow,an ACM Fellow,a Member of Academia Europaea,and a ACM SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award recipient.
John Mylopoulos is a Greek-Canadian computer scientist,Professor at the University of Toronto,Canada,and at the University of Trento,Italy. He is known for his work in the field of conceptual modeling,specifically the development an agent-oriented software development methodology. called TROPOS.
Henry A. Kautz is a computer scientist,Founding Director of Institute for Data Science and Professor at University of Rochester. He is interested in knowledge representation,artificial intelligence,data science and pervasive computing.
Maria Gini is an Italian and American Computer Scientist in artificial intelligence and robotics. She has considerable service to the computer science artificial intelligence community and for broadening participation in computing. She was Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence SIGAI from 2003 to 2010. She is currently a member of the CRA-W board.
A semantic decomposition is an algorithm that breaks down the meanings of phrases or concepts into less complex concepts. The result of a semantic decomposition is a representation of meaning. This representation can be used for tasks,such as those related to artificial intelligence or machine learning. Semantic decomposition is common in natural language processing applications.
Yolanda Gil is a Spanish computer scientist specializing in knowledge discovery and knowledge-based systems at the University of Southern California (USC). She served as chair of SIGAI the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group (SIG) on Artificial Intelligence,and the president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Jiebo Luo is a Chinese-American computer scientist,the Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester. He is interested in artificial intelligence,data science and computer vision.
Sheila Ann McIlraith is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence (AI). She is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science,University of Toronto. She is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair,a faculty member of the Vector Institute,and Associate Director and Research Lead of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society.
