Foundation of the IAS Society

The Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Society was founded on July 14th 1994. At the IAS-2 conference in Amsterdam a questionnaire was distributed to get an indication on whether there is sufficient interest to found an IAS Society. It was proposed that this Society should have as primary aim the organization of the IAS conference every other year. Alternatively, a workshop on a specific topic could be organized in those years when no conference is being held. It was also suggested that Society members would receive a newsletter informing them on the activities of the Society. During the IAS-3 conference in Pittsburgh (1993) the ideas were further discussed and it was decided to establish the IAS Society. In the last thirteen years the ideas have been further developed. It has been decided that the Society membership can be acquired either by participating into a IAS Conference, that allows to apply freely for IAS membership for the two subsequent years, or by subscribing the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, as illustrated in the "Journal and Society" page. This journal is from now onwards also publish a news page from the Society.

The IAS Society has a Governing Board consisting of:

E. Pagello, President (The University of Padua, Italy)
R. Dillman, Vice-President (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
T. Arai, Secretary (University of Tokyo, Japan)
F.C.A. Groen, Treasurer (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Maria Gini, (University of Minneapolis, USA)
Hyungsuk Cho, (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)

Society membership can be applied for by filling in the membership form. As a member of the Society you will not only be informed on the activities of the Society, but you will also have the possibility to influence the composition of its Governing Board, and consequently the content and place of the next IAS conference.

The last Conference, IAS-11, has been held in Ottawa, Canada, 30 August - 1 September 2010, http://www.yvesnix.nl/ias-11/

Members of the Honorary board of the Society are:

L.O. Hertzberger, (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
T. Kanade, (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
H. Inoue, (University of Tokyo, Japan)

E-mail: info@ias-society.org
Web: www.ias-society.org