Creativity at the Metalevel Blending of Techniques Aaai 2000 Conference Summary

Ontologies continue to become a growing part of AI as information beThe Seventeenth American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Twelfth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) conferences were jointly held in Austin, Texas, on 30 July through 3 August. They continue to provide a growing wealth of research stretching into many of the areas of AI. Coupled with demonstrations of the emerging and deployed IAAI techniques, the joint conference results in a complete survey of breaking technology. With the decade’s events in highperformance desktops and “invisible” computing, AI has flourished and now expands from its classical cognitive architecture roots into intense gaming and wireless devices. AI successfully reaches these areas with its continuing multidisciplinary collaborations and creativity.