<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><span style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">📢 💥 </span><b style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px">Call for AAAI-26 Bridge Program Proposals (Deadline Extended to August 29)</b><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"> </span><span style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">💥 📢</span></div><span style="color:rgb(36,36,36);font-size:15px"></span><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)">The AAAI-26 Program Committee invites proposals for the<b> Bridge Program</b> of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-26) held in Singapore from January 20-21, 2026.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><b>Call details:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaai.org%2Fconference%2Faaai%2Faaai-26%2Fbridge-program-call%2F&data=05%7C02%7Chadi%40psu.edu%7C48f9d3425ae943600cae08ddd819034a%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C638904324170938138%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MUoFKzUAq3jJI2c16QABEtig3egixfqCm3RueBSKRDE%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/bridge-program-call/. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-26/bridge-program-call/</a> </div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,system-ui,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">🤔 </span><b>What are bridges?</b><br>AAAI has incubated numerous AI sub-disciplines and conferences and has nurtured for decades the cohesion of AI. New communities often emerge when two or more disciplines come together in order to explore new opportunities and perspectives; today, both are plentiful. The purpose of the AAAI Bridges Program is to tap into this new source of innovation by cultivating sustained collaboration between two or more communities directed towards a common goal. Our interpretation of bridge is broad and encompasses disciplines both within and outside of AI. Hence, the communities that the AAAI Bridges Program brings together could be distinct subfields of AI, such as planning and learning, or different disciplines that contribute to and benefit from AI, such as AI and the humanities.</div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(36,36,36)"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div>Examples of accepted Bridges from AAAI-25 can be found here <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Faaai.org%2Fconference%2Faaai%2Faaai-25%2Faaai-25-bridge-list%2F&data=05%7C02%7Chadi%40psu.edu%7C48f9d3425ae943600cae08ddd819034a%7C7cf48d453ddb4389a9c1c115526eb52e%7C0%7C0%7C638904324170960474%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rzDFZQPiKzhhFrSih6EdurXBXE0seBzaGaFlooEzsh0%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL: https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/aaai-25-bridge-list/. Click or tap if you trust this link." style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">https://aaai.org/conference/aaai/aaai-25/aaai-25-bridge-list/</a> <div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Proposal Deadline Extension:</b> August 29, 2025 @ 11:59pm AoE</div><div aria-hidden="true" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Inquiries concerning Bridge format and submission process may be directed to <a href="mailto:aaai26bpchairs@aaai.org" title="mailto:aaai26bpchairs@aaai.org" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank">aaai26bpchairs@aaai.org</a> </div></div><br clear="all"></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#444444">Hadi Hosseini, Ph.D.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#444444">Associate Professor, </font><span style="font-style:inherit;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:georgia,serif">College of Information Sciences and Technology</span></div><div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#444444">Associate Director, Center for AI Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE)</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#444444">Director, FAIR Lab<br></font><span style="font-style:inherit;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:georgia,serif">Pennsylvania State University</span><font face="georgia, serif" color="#444444"><br></font></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-style:inherit"><font color="#444444">University Park, PA</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><a href="https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/hadi/" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif">https://faculty.ist.psu.edu/hadi/</font></a><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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