Modern AI solutions are quickly evolving, each day improving their ability to tackle growing levels of complexity. However, the ability to extract common meta-principles from experiences across multiple real-life domains remains a unique skill that humanity holds. Meta-principles, in turn, enable the ability to synthesize completely new ideas, and to reason about complex and abstract problems by decomposing them into smaller and simpler challenges - small and simple enough to be tackled by an AI engine. Thus, the AI revolution is enabling a new framework for human activities, where the human can focus on the creative and innovative aspects and the decomposition structure of their creative ideas, and AI engines can tackle the simpler tasks.

In this context, the innovation and opportunities brought forth by AI present an opportunity to change and improve how research and education are carried out in academic settings (and beyond) as informed by the widespread availability of AI-powered systems. To this end, the special day seeks to bring together educators and researchers, from academia and industry, to share ideas and best practices on how the community should evolve the way it educates and carries out research in the AI era, what are the most critical skills that a computer scientist and engineer should develop to succeed in the industry, and what new opportunities AI unlocks in the education and research domains.

Special Day Co-Chair "Embracing AI in Education and Research"
Marcello Traiola, Inria, FR
marcello.traiola@inria.fr

Special Day Co-Chair "Embracing AI in Education and Research"
Cristiana Bolchini, Politecnico di Milano, IT
cristiana.bolchini@polimi.it