AAAI is delighted to announce the continuation of its cooperative effort with AI Journal, giving unlimited access to the online version of the Artificial Intelligence Journal to all regular AAAI members. AAAI regular members can view and browse tables of contents, view articles published in recent issues of AI Journal, and utilize the current features available through Elsevier's electronic journal service. They may also view, print, and/or download excerpts of reasonable quantity, provided that the use of such excerpts is personal and does not amount to, or result in, commercial distribution. Participation in this experimental program is included in your normal AAAI membership dues. If you are a current regular member and have not received your reader key and instructions for accessing the online AI Journal, please contact membership03@aaai.org for more information.

Bruce Buchanan, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, presented the AAAI Awards recently at AAAI-02 in Edmonton, Canada. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2,500. The 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper from the Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1983 in Washington, DC. The Awards Committee selected John Canny of the University of California, Berkeley, to receive this award for his paper, "A Variational Approach to Edge Detection." Canny was honored for his creation of the widely used Canny Edge Detector, and his seminal contributions in the areas of John Canny robotics and machine perception.

The AAAI Press - Distributed by The MIT Press Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 To order, call toll free: (800) 356-0343 or (617) 625-8569. AAAI is delighted to announce the continuation of its cooperative effort with AI Journal, giving unlimited access to the online version of the Artificial Intelligence Journal to all regular AAAI members. AAAI regular members can view and browse tables of contents, view articles published in recent issues of AI Journal, and use the current features available through Elsevier's electronic journal service. They may also view, print and/or download excerpts of reasonable quantity, provided that the use of such excerpts is personal and does not amount to or result in commercial distribution. Participation in this experimental program is included in your normal AAAI membership dues.

AAAI is pleased to announce the continuation of its three special awards in 2002, and is currently seeking nominations for the 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award, the AAAI Distinguished Service Award, and the AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award. The 2002 AAAI Classic Paper Award will be given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1983 in Washington, DC. The 2002 AAAI Distinguished Service Award will recognize one individual for extraordinary service to the AI community. Finally, the AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award will honor the author(s) of a high quality, effective piece of writing, accessible to the general public or to a broad AI audience (not just a subarea), written within the last two years. The contribution should be based on sound science, interesting ideas or systematic review, with nontrivial content, but the award is primarily for the exposition.

AAAI is delighted to announce the launch of a fantastic new benefit for its regular members. In cooperation with Elsevier Science Publishers, AAAI is offering its regular members an opportunity to enjoy unlimited access to the online version of the AI Journal. AAAI regular members can view and browse tables of contents, view articles published in recent issues of AI Journal, and use the current features available through Elsevier's electronic journal service. They can also view, print, and/or download excerpts of reasonable quantity, provided that the use of such excerpts is personal and does not amount to or result in commercial distribution. Participation in this experimental program is included in your normal AAAI membership dues.

AAAI President David L. Waltz presented the three AAAI Awards at AAAI-2000 in Austin, Texas. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2500. The 2000 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1982 at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Awards Committee selected Judea Pearl of the University of California at Los Angeles to receive this Judea Pearl accepts Classic Paper Award at AAAI-2000 in Austin, Texas. Pearl is being honored for revolutionizing uncertain reasoning through the introduction of efficient Bayesian inference methods.

AAAI is pleased to announce the continued expansion of its awards program in 2000. The first AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award will be presented at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held July 31-August 3 in Austin, Texas. This award joins the two special awards established last year, the AAAI Classic Paper Award and the AAAI Distinguished Service Award. The AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award honors the author(s) of a high-quality, effective piece of writing, accessible to the general public or to a broad AI audience (not just a subarea), written within the last two years. The contribution should be based on sound science, interesting ideas, or systematic review, with nontrivial content, but the award is primarily for the exposition--the author need not be the one who has done the research.

AAAI President David L. Waltz presented the two new AAAI awards recently at AAAI-99 in Orlando, Florida. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2500. The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. The AAAI Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the first recipient of this award was Barbara J. Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science at Harvard University and a past president of AAAI. Grosz was honored for her contributions to the field of AI through sustained service in a multitude of academic, professional society, and government leadership roles at the local, national, and international levels, through which she has had a major effect on the field and on those working in it.

Two NEW Awards to be Presented at AAAI-99! AAAI recently established two new awards, to be presented annually at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (except in years where IJCAI is held in North America). The 1999 AAAI Influential Paper Award will be given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. The Awards Committee has selected John McDermott to receive this award for his paper "R1: An Expert in the Computer Systems Domain." McDermott is being honored for seminal contributions to the development of knowledge-based systems and to the establishment of their commercial applicability. The AAAI Distinguished Service Award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community.

We've all heard about startups like Netflix and Airbnb that came of age on AWS (Amazon Web Services), and became major forces reinventing their industries. As Vice President of EC2 Windows (Elastic Compute Cloud service that offers users flexible, scalable compute capacity for Microsoft applications), Sandy Carter is helping drive adoption of AWS technologies among enterprises. In this interview, Sandy answers a Proust Questionnaire (a parlor game popularized by Marcel Proust, who believed that an individual will reveal their true nature in answering these questions), speaks about her grandmother, her team at AWS, and why she loves the beach. Which person do you most admire? She'll tell you that she's five feet tall, but she's only four foot eleven.