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Semantic technology turns out to be a hot topic among the workshops in AAAI spring Symposia 2008. Here are some context where semantic technologies are needed

• knowledge representation
  • ontology, semantic web {all}
  • interoperability, interdisciplinary{ss01,ss05,ss07}
  • scientific knowledge; artificial characters {ss04,ss05, ss07}
  • business process; scientific workflow; provenance {ss01,ss05,ss07}
• computation and reasoning
  • social web; network computation; collective intelligence {ss04,ss05,ss06,ss07}
  • rules, workflow analysis {ss01,ss05}
  • question answering, intelligent system, agent {ss02,ss03,ss04}
  • semantic enabled user interface, explanation {ss05,ss07}

Below is the list of workshops:

• ss01 AI Meets Business Rules and Process Management
• ss02 Architectures for Intelligent Theory-Based Agents
• ss03 Creative Intelligent Systems
• ss04 Emotion, Personality, and Social Behavior
• ss05 Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration
• ss06 Social Information Processing
• ss07 Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering
• ss08 Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science

IEEE Intelligent Systems is pleased to announce the 2008 edition of the “Ten to Watch” list — a list of ten top researchers in the areas of coverage of our publication who have received their PhDs in the past couple of years. We solicited nominees from a number of sources, including the AAAI Fellows, the chairs of major CS departments around the world, a number of mailing lists in this area, and with an open call in our magazine and other public forums. We received a large number of very qualified applicants from around the world. A committee from the Advisory and Editorial Board winnowed this down to the top ten. The 2008 “Ten to Watch” recipients are:

• Luis von Ahn
  
• Philipp Cimiano
• Dmitri Dolgov
• Anat Levin
• Peter Mika
• Brian Milch
• Louis-Philippe Morency
• Boris Motik
  
• Jennifer Neville
• Erik Sudderth

Please join me in congratulating this outstanding group of young scientists.

A feature on these recipients will run in our May/June 2008 issue.

(The “Ten to Watch” was first awarded in 2006 – see the list of 2006 recipients.)