Carnegie Mellon University established a branch campus in Qatar in the fall of 2004. We are offering a BS degree in Computer Science to an international student body. The university invites applications for a visiting faculty position to begin as early as January 2006. We are seeking a faculty member in the area of Learning Science and Technology with research experience ideally in designing, implementing, deploying, and evaluating educational technology in school or college settings. An ability to teach courses in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, or related areas is also desired.

The seventh biennial Bar-Ilan International Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, will be held on June 25-27, 2001 in Ramat Gan, Israel. The meeting will honor the research and accomplishments of Yaacov Choueka and will therefore place special emphasis on natural language processing and computational linguistics, in addition to the usual topics of the symposium. Moshe Vardi The BISFAI-01 program, schedule and registration information will be available at the BISFAI website: www.cs.biu.ac.il/ bisfai, along with abstracts of invited and accepted papers and pointers to online versions.For further information or requests, contact: bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il. Contact: Joaquim Filipe School of Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal EST Setubal, Campus do IPS / R. Vale Chaves - Estefanilha Setubal 2910 Portugal Voice: 351-265 790040 Fax: 351-265 721 869 Email: jfilipe@est.ips.pt Faculty Positions for Intelligent Aerospace Systems Program The College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for 3 to 5 new faculty positions at all levels in the area of Intelligent Systems.

The 2001 Fellows Selection Committee is currently accepting nominations for AAAI fellow. The AAAI Fellows Program is designed to recognize people who have made significant, sustained contributions to the field of AI over at least a 10-year period. All regular members in good standing are encouraged to consider nominating a candidate. Two references (at least one from a current AAAI fellow) must accompany nominations. For further information about the Fellows Program or to receive nomination and reference forms, please contact AAAI at 650-328- 3123; by fax at 650-321-4457; or by email at fellows@aaai.org.

July 11, 1993 Washington, DC Participants: Pat Hayes, Danny Bobrow, Randy Davis, Barbara Grosz, Norm Nielsen, Joe Bates, Paul Cohen, Tom Dean, Johan de Kleer, Bob Engelmore, Ed Feigenbaum, Richard Fikes, Ken Ford, Mark Fox, Peter Friedland, Barbara Hayes-Roth, Jim Hendler, Elaine Kant, Phil Klahr, Benjamin Kuipers, Ramesh Patil, Candy Sidner, Bill Swartout, Katia Sycara, Beverly Woolf, Carol Hamilton Pat Hayes called the meeting to order with the introduction of the newly elected officer and councilors of AAAI. Randy Davis has been elected to a two-year term as President-Elect. Tom Dean, Bob Engelmore, Peter Friedland, and Ramesh Patil have all been elected to three-year terms as AAAI councilors. Hayes gave a special thanks to retiring councilors Tom Dietterich, Richard Fikes, Mark Fox, and Barbara Hayes-Roth for their generous donations of time and energy over the past three years. Hayes also presented Danny Bobrow with a special plaque, noting his many years of service to AAAI.

President Pat Hayes opened the meeting by welcoming the four newly elected members of the Executive Council who are Johan de Kleer, Benjamin Kuipers, Paul Rosenbloom, and Beverly Woolf. He also thanked the four retiring councilors-Ken Forbus, Howie Shrobe, Bill Swartout, and Marty Tenenbaum-for their three years of service on the Council and their continuing service to AAAI. Standing Cqmmittee Reports Reports were presented by the finance, workshop grants, fellows, conference, publications, symposium, and scholarship committees. Finance Committee: Secretary-Treasurer Bruce Buchanan presented the financial report. Due to the decline in revenue for the association and poor interest rates, the financial outlook is not as positive as in past years.

Hojjat Adeli, coauthor of "A Novel Approach to Expert Systems for the Design of Large Structures, " is currently a professor of civil engineering at The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 and is editor-inchief of the International Journal of Microcomputers in Civil Engineering. A contributor to 20 journals, he is the author or editor of over 160 publications in various fields of computer-aided engineering and is the editor of the forthcoming book series Knowledge Engineering, to be published by McGraw-Hill The first two volumes are scheduled for publication in mid-1989. Dean Allemang, coauthor of "Connectionism and Information Processing Abstractions: The Message Still Counts More Than the Medium," is a graduate research fellow at the Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research in the Department of Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210. He is currently writing his Ph.D. dissertation on a devicebased understanding of software.

James Peters, coauthor of "A Knowledge-Based Model of Audit Risk," is an assistant professor in the Department of Accounting, College of Business Administration, University of Oregon. Hans Berliner, author of the Hitech Computer Chess report, is a senior scientist in the Department of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213. R. Peter Bonasso, author of "An Assessment of What AI Can Do for Battle Management--A Report of the First AAAI Workshop on AI Applications to Battle Management" is the department head of the Artificial Intelligence Technical Center in The MITRE Corporation, Washington 01 Operations division, 7525 Colshire Drive, Mclean, VA 22102. His research interests include commonsense reasoning and qualitative processes with a view toward applications to military systems. Vasant Dhar, coauthor of "A Knowledge-Based Model of Audit Risk," is an associate professor in the Department of Information Systems, New York University.

At AAAI-91, AAAI conducted an experiment, running short (5 to 15 minute) videotapes of research projects and lectures, in the conference registration area. Conference attendees were pleased with the experiment, so AAAI would like to expand the number of tapes it has available for showing at AAAI-92 in San Jose, California (12-17 July). The conference is an excellent opportunity for your lab's research efforts to be shown to a large portion of the AI community. AAAI is looking for short tapes that can be run in parallel on several screens. Please do not send tapes of a particular project or lecture but, rather, tapes that present broad descriptions of different programs, projects, and systems that are used within your lab.

AAAI announces the continuation of its scholarship travel program for students who want to attend the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Jose, California, 12-17 July 1992. Undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in a full-time degree program at any college or university are eligible to serve as student volunteers during AAAI-92, to be held at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California, 12-17 July. In exchange for assisting AAAI staff members during your volunteer shift, you will receive complimentary conference registration, a copy of the AAAI-92 proceedings, and a special AAAI-92 T-shirt. If you are interested in assisting AAAI at the national conference, please contact AAAI at volunteer @aaai.org. All inquiries should include your name, address, telephone, advisor's name, and email address.