BICA Society Founding Members

BICA Conference Series was preceded by the AAAI Fall Symposia on BICA, held in 2008-2009. Originally, participants were mostly the members of the DARPA BICA Program of 2005-2006; however, the audience started expanding rapidly. As a result, in 2010 the BICA Conference Series was initiated as a separate venue, managed by a newly formed nonprofit: BICA Society. For 14 years, the BICA conference was organized around the world (USA, Italy, Ukraine, France, Russia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Japan, Austria, Mexico,China), demonstrating impressive success in growing progression. The conference was complemented by schools and symposia on BICA, in total making 15 separate events. The BICA Society membership reached many hundreds. BICA Society published a number of books and journals, some of them on the regular basis. In 2020 when the COVID19 hit, the BICA conference still was a great success in the cyberspace and since then assumed a hybrid format: offline+online. During its years the conference was held in cooperation with well-known collocated events and incorporated into itself many international schools, workshops, and symposia. BICA community today is a well-recognized phenomenon of the scientific world.