Another AAAI hidden secret: the AI video awards.

In an hour I’ll attend in Atlanta the video awards:
http://www.aivideo.org

The goal of the competition 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. The developers of award-winning videos will be presented with Oscar-like trophies (“Shakeys,” in honor of SRI’s Shakey robot and its pioneering video) in a ceremony, currently scheduled for July 11th.  We strongly encourage student participation.

For some kind of reason these videos are not published in a YouTube Channel but hidden on specific servers.

I haven’t checked them all out because of the internet connection here, but what I’ve seen so far looks promising.

Here are the links to download yourself:
http://www.knexusresearch.com/aaaimovies/2007/movies/
http://www.knexusresearch.com/aaaimovies/2008/movies/
http://www.knexusresearch.com/aaaimovies/2009/movies/

This link:
http://www.knexusresearch.com/aaaimovies/2010/movies/
doesn’t work yet, but it won’t take long I’d guess.

Internet speed is a little bit slow here in my hotel in Atlanta, but I’ll research the videos in more detail whether this competition is useful to list in our awards area as well.

Erwin,
Thanks for the links. I loved the smart model helicopter. If you see that in Atlanta just put it in your backpack and drop it off in Charleston, SC. =)

How’s it going so far?

Regards,
Chuck

Not to even slightly criticize them…  As a friendly comment,
they have so much room for optimization in video rendering.

I have spoken to the organizers in Atlanta, exactly about this topic. Well spotted!