The History of AICS

2009 will be the 20th incarnation of the annual conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. The following table lists what information we could gather on where the conference was held in each of its 20 years and who was involved in its organisation.

Number Year Host Chairs Website
20 2009 UCD Lorcan Coyle, Jill Freyne, and John Dunnion http://aics.ucd.ie/
19 2008 UCC Derek Bridge, Kenneth Brown, Barry O’Sullivan and Humphrey Sorensen http://www.cs.ucc.ie/aics08/
18 2007 DIT Sarah Jane Delany and Michael Madden http://www.comp.dit.ie/aics07/
17 2006 QUB D. A. Bell, P. Milligan, and P. P. Sage http://www.cs.qub.ac.uk/aics06/
16 2005 Ulster Norman Creaney http://www.infc.ulst.ac.uk/~norman/aics05/
15 2004 GMIT Lorraine McGinty and Brian Crean http://www.gmit.ie/aics_2004
14 2003 TCD Pádraig Cunningham, Tim Fernando, Carl Vogel
13 2002 UL Michael O'Neill, Richard F.E. Sutcliffe, Conor Ryan, Malachy Eaton
12 2001 Maynooth Diarmuid O'Donoghue, Adam Winstanley, Paul Gibson http://www.cs.may.ie/aics/
11 2000 Galway Colm O’Riordan and Josephine Griffith http://linitweb.it.nuigalway.ie/aics/
10 1999 UCC Derek Bridge, Ruth Byrne, Barry O'Sullivan,
Steve Prestwich, Humphrey Sorensen
9 1998 UCD John Dunnion, Greg O'Hare, Seán Ó Nualláin, Ronan Reilly, Barry Smyth
8 1997 University of Ulster (Magee, Derry) Paul Mc Kevitt, Fionn Murtagh, Jon Campbell http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~paul/aics97/aics97.html
7 1994 TCD Mike Brady, Ruth Byrne, Padraig Cunningham, Mark Keane
6 1993 QUB R. Cowie, M. Owens
5 1992 UL Kevin Ryan, Richard Sutcliffe
4 1991 UCC Humphrey Sorensen
3 1990 University of Ulster at Jordanstown Michael F McTear and Norman Creaney
2 1989 DCU A.F. Smeaton and G. McDermott
1 1988 UCD Henry McLoughlin, Arthur Cater, Gabriel McDermott, Ronan Reilly

If you have any photos from previous AICS conferences please send them on and we'll post them here :-)