I guess it would be a little late, but you may enjoy reading this AAAI-05 blog. Its description reveals everything: Student blog for the 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05) and 17th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-05) 9-13 July 2005, Pittsburgh.
Marvin Minsky's fan can read these two posts: 1 and 2!