TY - JOUR AU - Goker, Mehmet H. AU - Haigh, Karen Zita PY - 2009/06/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Introduction to the Special Issue on IAAI 2008 JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 30 IS - 2 SE - Editorials DO - 10.1609/aimag.v30i2.2242 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2242 SP - 15 AB - <p>The goal of the Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI) conference is to highlight new, innovative, systems and application areas of AI technology and to point out the often-overlooked difficulties involved in deploying complex technology to end users. Those of us who have ventured out of the realm of pure research and tried to build applications to be used by our fellow humans realize that it takes a lot more than just brilliant algorithms to make an application survive in the real world. Each application that succeeds is worth celebrating and the teams behind them are due wholehearted congratulations. It is in this spirit that we bring you this special issue covering select applications from the IAAI conference held last year in Chicago.</p> ER -