Photos from ICML'06, AAAI Fellows Symposium and AAAI'06

23rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML'06), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU),July 25-29, 2006.

The first workshop on Machine Learning, which initiated the series of ICML conferences, was held at CMU, in July 1980, and was organized by J. Carbonell, R.S. Michalski, and T. Mitchell. On the occasion of the return of the machine learning conference to CMU after 26 years, Ryszard Michalski gave an address to the participants at the conference banquet in which he brielfy described the events that led to the organization of the first Machine Learning workshop and to the first book on Machine Learning that started the field of Machine Learning. Jaime Carbonell then gave a brief historical review of the trends and directions in Machine Learning.

Unlesss indicated otherwise, the photos from ICML'06 were made by Ralf Brown (they were selected from http://www.pbase.com/ralf/image).

Ryszard Michalski showing the book "Machine Learning: Artificial Intelligence Approach" that "strated it all" (that is the field of Machine Learning) to the ICML participants.



Jaime Carbonell giving a brief historical review of different trends and research directions in Machine Learning.



Tom Mitchell openning the banquet.



A scene from the ICML banquet.

The AAAI Fellows Symposium celebrating 50th anniversary of Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 15-16, 2006, and the 21th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Boston, July 16-20, 2006.

Pat Winston and Ryszard Michalski at the AAAI'06 Conference after a lunch conversation.



Bruce Buchanan at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.



Burce Buchanan talking about "What we know about knowledge."



Dan Roth, Ryszard S. Michalski and Gerald DeJong talking about AI, ML and UIUC (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana) (where Roth and DeJong work now, and Michalski worked in the past).



Dave Waltz taking notes at the "Birds of a Feather" meeting (he also worked at UIUC in the past, now at Columbia University).



Gerald Sussman gives a presentation at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.



John Mc Carthy and Nils Nilsson at the AAAI Fellow Symposium.



John McCarthy, the father of LISP and one of the fathers of AI.



Lenhart Schubert leading the "Birds of a Feather" meeting on "What Can We Learn form Linguistic Semantics about KR&R?"



Oliver Selfridge talks at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.



Nils Nilsson, Edward Feigenbaum, Oliver Selfrige, Karen Sparck-Jones and John McCarthy at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.



Nils Nilsson and Raj Reddy at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.



Ray Kurzweil giving his invited talk at the AAAI Fellows Dinner, and making his predictions about the future of AI.



Tom Mitchel, Ryszard Michalski and Bruce Buchanan at the AAAI Fellows Symposium.

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