History

The Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) is a non-profit scientific association founded in 1988 with the aim of promoting the research and dissemination of the techniques related to Artificial Intelligence.

The list of former AIxIA Presidents is as follows:

  • Luigia Carlucci Aiello
  • Oliviero Stock
  • Piero Torasso
  • Marco Gori
  • Roberto Serra
  • Marco Schaerf
  • Paola Mello
  • Amedeo Cesta
  • Piero Poccianti (in office)

The Association has been organizing scientific events and meetings for its members since its foundation; conferences have been organized in the even years, while congresses have been organized in the odd years.

The past scientific events were held at:

  1. Ancona 1988
  2. Rome 1990
  3. Genova 1992
  4. Parma 1994
  5. Naples 1996
  6. Padova 1998
  7. Milan 2000
  8. Siena 2002
  9. Perugia 2004
  10. In 2006, as the AIxIA hosted the European Artificial Intelligence Conference (ECAI 2006) in Riva del Garda (TN), no further event was organized
  11. Cagliari 2008
  12. Brescia 2010
  13. Rome 2012
  14. Pisa 2014

Since 2006, a unified event has been taking place every year under the form of a Scientific Congress. The historical series of the AIxIA Congresses is shown below:

  1. Trento 1989
  2. Palermo 1991
  3. Turin 1993
  4. Florence 1995
  5. Rome 1997
  6. Bologna 1999
  7. Bari 2001
  8. Pisa 2003
  9. Milan 2005
  10. Rome 2007
  11. Reggio Emilia 2009
  12. Palermo 2011
  13. Turin 2013
  14. Ferrara 2015
  15. Genova 2016
  16. Bari 2017
  17. Trento 2018