On January 13-14, 1990, a workshop organized by EDRC was held to discuss the topic of creating a scientific community at the interface between engineering design and AI, in order to identify problems and methods in the area that would facilitate the transfer and reuse of results. This report summarizes the workshop and follow-up sessions and identifies major trends in the field.

Models of design processes provide guidance in the development of knowledge-based systems for design. The basis for such models comes from research in design theory and methodology as well as problem solving in AI. Three models are presented: decomposition, case-based reasoning, and transformation. Each model provides a formalism for representing design knowledge and experience in distinct and complementary forms.

Of what are minds made? Internal mental representations? Matter? In this provocative and engaging work (Simple Minds, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989, 266 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-262-12140-9), Dan Lloyd seeks to provide answers that will bridge the gap between computational and connectionist models of the mind.

This article proposes connectionism as an alternative to classical cognitivism in understanding design. It also considers the difficulties encountered within a particular view of the role of explanations and typologies. Connectionism provides an alternative model that does not depend on the articulation of explanations and typologies.

Stuart Goldkind's book Machines and Intelligence: A Critique of Arguments against the Possibility of Artificial Intelligence (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1987, 139 pages, $29.95, ISBN 0-313-25450-8) considers and criticizes a collection of arguments against the possibility of AI.

I appreciated very much the Spring 1990 issue of the AI Magazine on Robotic Assembly and Task Planning. It seems to me, however, that some good work that has been carried out on this subject in Europe during recent years has not been covered very much. Also commons on the low participation levels of women in the computer industry, suggestions for the inclusion of dissertation abstracts, comments on the Feldman article in the Fall 1990 issue, and a note about the discontinuance of plastic coverings on AI Magazine.

My Ph.D. dissertation describes an investigation of scientific reasoning from a computational perspective.

In the emerge from a massive knowledge this subject.

From 1949 through the late required to have his research more didn't finish 1960s, he did the best work in making vigorously followed up on. He was the computers learn from their experience. Programs for playing games often and what would be required to In 1949, Samuel joined IBM's fill the role in artificial intelligence reach human-level intelligence. Poughkeepsie Laboratory, where he research that the fruit fly Drosophila Samuel's papers on machine learning worked on IBM's first stored program plays in genetics. Drosophilae are are still worth studying.

Thirty users of AI systems, 8. Make sure everyone knows at the Intelligence has announced that, key role in systems that enhance the 1. Integrating AI with traditional starting next year, its National Conference human values of the world we live in." He 2. AI may be only part of the system/ The 1991 AAAI Conferences will noted that, "Some of the most important solution, but it is increasingly the take place in Anaheim, California results of technology transfer part that makes the whole work. The National Conference will be the unexpected." "This is a recognition of changing significant benefits." "As AI moves more broadly champion" outside the AI/IS area, presentations focused on the approaches AI solutions that were only theory 12 to 18 months ago."