In early August 2018, Aghiles attended the international conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), which took place in Monterey, California. Hereafter, he shares his UAI experience. The conference was hosted in the InterContinental Hotel, and according to the organizers, this was the biggest UAI ever. The papers presented in the conference covered various current […]
In July 2018, Hady traveled to Stockholm, Sweden for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). Here, he recounts his experience from the trip. IJCAI-18 was probably the largest academic conference I ever participated in so far, with 2500 registered attendees. This was 20% larger than the 2017 conference. This pronounced growth and […]
Braving the depths of winter, Hady and Maksim visited Russia in late February to early March, when the temperature stayed below zero throughout. Parks were seas of white, yet rivers were solid ground. Plodding wearily on icy sidewalks and snow-banked curbs, as well as zipping cheerily around town on Yandex Taxi, we visited a […]