The Ambient Information Systems Workshop at Ubicomp 2008 was a great success. The proceedings are now online here, the papers are being written for the upcoming journal special issue, and everyone is back home after a pleasant trip to Korea. We hope everyone enjoyed the conference, here's one of the great pictures taken by Mario Romero of everyone. Thanks once more to our program committee, to all who submitted, to all who attended, and to all who presented and got involved in the discussions. Hope to see you all next year :-)

The program for AIS 2008 is now online. We've got a great program of presentations, demos, and discussions (we'd love to hear suggestions for further discussion topics beyond those listed). Hope to see you at AIS 2008 later in the month :-)

The submission deadline has now closed and we can announce that we have received eleven submissions in total. These have just now been send to program committee and authors should receive their feedback and acceptance notification on July 25th. Thanks and best of luck to all who submitted.

William R. Hazlewood and Lorcan Coyle have been invited to contribute a special issue on Ambient Information Systems in a new journal, the International Journal of Ambient Computing and Intelligence (IJACI) in late 2008. Authors of the highest rated papers submitted to AIS2008 will be invited to submit extensions of their papers to this special issue. Both short and long papers are eligible for inclusion (the AIS2008 call for participation is here).

In light of the invitation to contribute AIS2008 papers to the special issue on Ambient Information Systems in IJACI we have decided to extend the submission deadline from the 27th June to the 11th July. The new call for papers is here.

Sorry all, the website was down up to a few minutes ago. There were problems with our hosting company's data-center. From their website's service page: "On Saturday, May 31st at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost." The issues took some time to resolve fully and hopefully we won't have any problems going forward with this, apologies for the inconvenience.

Welcome to the new Ambient Information Systems website. This website will contain information relating to the second international workshop on Ambient Information Systems held at Ubicomp 2008 in Korea on the 21st September 2008.