ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence

We promote and support the growth and application of AI principles and techniques throughout computing

VOLUME 11, ISSUE 2, 2026

Full Issue

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Individual Articles

1. Table of Contents

2. Letter from Editor
By Ella Scallan

3. SIGAI Annual Report (July 2024-June 2025)
By Sanmay Das, Louise Dennis, Matt Luckcuck, Nick Mattei, and Alan Tsang

4. Interviews with 2019 AAAI ACM SIGAI Doctoral Dissertation Awardees

5. 2019 AAAI ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Winner – Jiajun Wu
Dissertation Title: “Learning to See the Physical World”

6. 2019 AAAI ACM SIGAI Dissertation Award Honorable Mention – Aishwarya Agrawal
Dissertation Title: “Visual Question Answering and Beyond”

7. AI Ethics & Policy Column – Top AI Ethics and Policy Issues of 2025 and What to Expect in 2026
By Larry R. Medsker

8. Conference Reports
Compiled by Ella Scallan

AI Matters is a quarterly newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence (SIGAI) that features ideas and announcements of interest to the AI community. AI Matters is archived and made available in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, the newsletter is also emailed to SIGAI members and made publicly available on the SIGAI Website.

AI Matters

Editor-In-Chief:

  • Iolanda Leite, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • Anuj Karpatne, Virginia Tech
  • Ziyu Yao, George Mason University

Editorial Board:

  • Sanmay Das, George Mason University
  • Alexei Efros, University of California at Berkeley
  • Susan L. Epstein, The City University of New York
  • Yolanda Gil, University of Southern California
  • Doug Lange, SPAWAR Systems Center, US Navy
  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech
  • Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Nicholas Mattei, Tulane University

Editor emerita:

  • Kiri Wagstaff, JPL/Caltech (founding Editor-In-Chief)
  • Eric Eaton, University of Pennsylvania
  • Amy McGovern, University of Oklahoma