After the success of our 2017 version of the contest we are happy to announce another round of the ACM SIGAI\u00a0Student Essay Contest on Artificial Intelligence Technologies!<\/p>\n
Download a PDF of the call here:\u00a0https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/SIGAIEssay2018<\/a><\/p>\n Win one of several $500 monetary prizes or a Skype conversation with a leading AI researcher including Joanna Bryson, Murray Campbell, Eric Horvitz, Peter Norvig, Iyad Rahwan, Francesca Rossi, or Toby Walsh.<\/b><\/p>\n We have extended the deadline to <\/b>February<\/u><\/b>\u00a015th, 2019, Anywhere on Earth Time Zone.\u00a0 Please get your submissions in!!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Students interested in these topics should consider submitting to the 2019 Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society Conference and\/or Student Program — Deadline is in early November.\u00a0 See the website for all the details<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (ACM SIGAI) supports the development and responsible application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. From intelligent assistants to self-driving cars, an increasing number of AI technologies now (or soon will) affect our lives. Examples include Google Duplex (<\/span>Link<\/span><\/a>) talking to humans, Drive.ai (<\/span>Link<\/span><\/a>) offering rides in US cities, chatbots advertising movies by impersonating people (<\/span>Link<\/span><\/a>), and AI systems making decisions about parole (<\/span>Link<\/span><\/a>) and foster care (<\/span>Link<\/span><\/a>). We interact with AI systems, whether we know it or not, every day.<\/span><\/p>\n Such interactions raise important questions. ACM SIGAI is in a unique position to shape the conversation around these and related issues and is thus interested in obtaining input from students worldwide to help shape the debate. We therefore invite all students to enter an essay in the 2018 ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest, to be published in the ACM SIGAI newsletter \u201cAI Matters,\u201d addressing one or both of the following topic areas (or any other question in this space that you feel is important) while providing supporting evidence:<\/span><\/p>\n Each of the above topic areas raises further questions, including<\/span><\/p>\n All sources must be cited. However, we are not interested in summaries of the opinions of others. Rather, we are interested in the informed opinions of the authors. Writing an essay on this topic requires some background knowledge. Possible starting points for acquiring such background knowledge are:<\/span><\/p>\n ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field’s challenges. As the world\u2019s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM\u2019s reach extends to every part of the globe, with more than half of its 100,000 members residing outside the U.S. \u00a0Its growing membership has led to Councils in Europe, India, and China, fostering networking opportunities that strengthen ties within and across countries and technical communities. Their actions enhance ACM\u2019s ability to raise awareness of computing\u2019s important technical, educational, and social issues around the world. See <\/span>https:\/\/www.acm.org\/<\/span><\/a> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n ACM SIGAI brings together academic and industrial researchers, practitioners, software developers, end users, and students who are interested in AI. It promotes and supports the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing, sponsors or co-sponsors AI-related conferences, organizes the Career Network and Conference for early-stage AI researchers, sponsors recognized AI awards, supports AI journals, provides scholarships to its student members to attend conferences, and promotes AI education and publications through various forums and the ACM digital library. See <\/span>https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/<\/span><\/a> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n The ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest is open to all ACM SIGAI student members at the time of submission. \u00a0(If you are a student but not an ACM SIGAI member, you can join ACM SIGAI before submission for just US$ 11 at <\/span>https:\/\/goo.gl\/6kifV9<\/span><\/a> by selecting Option 1, even if you are not an ACM member.) Essays can be authored by one or more ACM SIGAI student members but each ACM SIGAI student member can (co-)author only one essay. <\/span><\/p>\n All authors must be SIGAI members at the time of submission. \u00a0All submissions not meeting this requirement will not be reviewed.<\/b><\/p>\n Essays should be submitted as pdf documents of any style with at most 5,000 words via email to <\/span>https:\/\/easychair.org\/conferences\/?conf=acmsigai2018<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n We have extended the deadline to <\/b>February<\/u><\/b>\u00a015th, 2019, Anywhere on Earth Time Zone.\u00a0 Please get your submissions in!!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n The authors certify with their submissions that they have followed the ACM publication policies on \u201cAuthor Representations,\u201d \u201cPlagiarism\u201d and \u201cCriteria for Authorship\u201d (<\/span>http:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/<\/span><\/a>). They also certify with their submissions that they will transfer the copyright of winning essays to ACM.<\/span><\/p>\n Winning entries from last year\u2019s essay contest can be found in recent issues of the ACM SIGAI newsletter \u201cAI Matters,\u201d specifically\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Volume 3, Issue 3: <\/span>http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/3-3.html<\/span><\/a> and\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Volume 3, Issue 4: <\/span>http:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/3-4.html<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Entries will be judged by the following panel of leading AI researchers and ACM SIGAI officers. Winning essays will be selected based on depth of insight, creativity, technical merit, and novelty of argument. All decisions by the judges are final.<\/span><\/p>\n All winning essays will be published in the ACM SIGAI newsletter \u201cAI Matters.\u201d ACM SIGAI provides five monetary awards of USD 500 each as well as 45-minute skype sessions with the following AI researchers: <\/span><\/p>\n One award is given per winning essay. Authors or teams of authors of winning essays will pick (in a pre-selected order) an available skype session or one of the monetary awards until all skype sessions and monetary awards have been claimed. ACM SIGAI reserves the right to substitute a skype session with a different AI researcher or a monetary award for a skype session in case an AI researcher becomes unexpectedly unavailable. Some prizes might not be awarded in case the number of high-quality submissions is smaller than the number of prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n In case of questions, please first check the ACM SIGAI blog for announcements and clarifications: <\/span>https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/aimatters\/blog\/<\/span><\/a>. You can also contact the ACM SIGAI Student Essay Contest Organizers at sigai@member.acm.org.<\/span><\/p>\n with involvement from<\/span><\/p>\n2018 Topic<\/span><\/h1>\n
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The deadline for submissions is January 10th, 2019.<\/b><\/del><\/p>\nJudges and Judging Criteria<\/span><\/h1>\n
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