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History of CAIAC

List of previous Canadian AI conferences:

  • AI'2008 28-30 May 2008, Windsor, Ontario
  • AI'2007 28-30 May 2007, Montreal, Québec
  • AI'2006 7-9 June 2006, Québec City, Quebec
  • AI'2005, 9-11 May 2005, Victoria, BC
  • AI'2004, 17-19 May 2004, London, Ontario
  • AI'2003, 11-13 June 2003, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • AI'2002, 27-29 May 2002, Calgary, Alberta
  • AI'2001, 7-9 June 2001, Ottawa, Ontario
  • AI'2000, 14-17 May 2000, Montréal, Québec
  • AI/GI/VI '98, 18-20 June 1998, Toronto, Ontario
  • AI/GI/VI '96, 21-24 May 1996, Vancouver, BC

Name Change from CSCSI to CAIAC

In May 2008, the name of the society was officially changed from the CSCSI/SCEIO to CAIAC: Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association / Association pour l'intelligence artificielle au Canada.

Board Retreat of February, 2006

The Board of Directors of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence met on February 17, 2006, for a day long meeting which included an exercise of strategizing to develop a mission statement and establishing goals for the ensuing year. The morning session was facilitated by the Managing Director of the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship, Ron Robichaud. The session took place at the K.C. Irving Centre on the Campus of Acadia University. Members of the Board include: Scott Goodwin (President), Froduald Kabanza (Vice President), Danny Silver (Secretary), Vlado Keselj (Treasurer) and Bruce Spencer (Past President). All were in attendance with the exception of Scott Goodwin who joined the meeting by phone from his home in Ontario.

Each of the Board members were asked to reply to a series of questions prior to attending the meeting for the purpose of obtaining input in the formulation of a mission statement. The questions were as follow: Who are we? What do we do? Who do we do it? What geographic area do we provide our services? Why do we provide our services? How do we deliver our services?

The results of the answers were consolidated and a draft mission statement was devised from that information. As a group each question was reviewed and slight modifications were made which resulted in the following mission statement.

"The Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence fosters the development of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence community (researchers, students, industry and government) to become leaders in AI research, development and education by facilitating the exchange of knowledge through various media and venues."

Through the consultation process, the Board of Directors identified four major goals that would assist the organization achieve its mission. However, as was discussed during the session it is recommended that the Board concentrate their limited resources to accomplish the goals as they are in order of priority. By way of Pareto's law, achieving the top priority goals first will assist in achieving 80% of the desired results. The goals as identified by the Board and in order of priority are as follows:



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