Organization of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence

Organization of the American Association for Artiﬁcial Intelligence

Ofﬁcers

President Tom M. Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University

President–Elect Ron Brachman, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Past President Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh

Secretary–Treasurer Ted Senator

Councilors (through 2003) Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto Rina Dechter, University of California, Irvine Richard Doyle, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology David Poole, University of British Columbia

(through 2004) Marie desJardins, University of Maryland Baltimore County Craig Knoblock, University of Southern California / Institute for Scientiﬁc Information (USC/ISI) Daphne Koller, Stanford University Peter Norvig, Google, Inc.

(through 2005) Carla Gomes, Cornell University Michael Littman, Rutgers University Maja Mataric, University of Southern California Yoav Shoham, Stanford University

Standing Committees

Conference Chair James A. Hendler, University of Maryland

ix Fellows and Nominating Chair Bruce G. Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh

Finance Chair Ted Senator

Grants Chair Manuela Veloso, Carnegie Mellon University

Membership Chair Reid Simmons, Carnegie Mellon University

Publications Chair David Leake, Indiana University

Symposium Chair Holly Yanco, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Symposium Associate Chair Marie desJardins, University of Maryland Baltimore County

AI Magazine

Editor David Leake, Indiana University

Reports Editor Robert A. Morris, NASA Ames Research Center

Book Review Editor Michael Wellman, University of Michigan

Managing Editor David Mike Hamilton, The Live Oak Press, LLC

Production Editor Sunny Ludvik, Ludvik Editorial Services, Inc.

Magazine Editorial Board James Allen, University of Rochester Craig Boutilier, University of Toronto Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Henrik Christensen, Swedish Royal Institute of Technology Boi Faltings, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Usama Fayyad, digiMine Kenneth Ford, University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Kristian Hammond, Northwestern University Janice Glasgow, Queen’s University

x Henry Kautz, University of Washington Patrick Hayes, University of West Florida / Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Robert Milne, Intelligent Applications Ltd. Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology Martha Pollack, University of Michigan Leora Morgenstern, IBM Watson Research Labs Moshe Tennenholtz, Technion Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin Chris Welty, IBM Feng Zhao, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

AAAI Press

Editor-in-Chief Kenneth Ford, University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition

Press Editorial Board Kenneth Ford, University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Kenneth Forbus, Northwestern University Patrick Hayes, University of West Florida, Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Janet Kolodner, Georgia Institute of Technology George Luger, University of New Mexico Robert Morris, NASA Ames Research Center Alain Rappaport, Carnegie Mellon University Brian Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AAAI Staff

Executive Director Carol McKenna Hamilton

Accountant Colleen Boyce

Senior Conference Coordinator Keri Vasser Harvey

Conference Coordinator Ann Stolberg

Information Technology Manager Richard A. Skalsky

Membership Assistant Raji Prado