WEBODE is a scalable workbench for ontological engineering that eases the design, development, and management of ontologies and includes middleware services to aid in the integration of ontologies into real-world applications. WEBODE presents a framework to integrate new ontology-based tools and services, where developers only worry about the new logic they want to provide on top of the knowledge stored in their ontologies.

I'm delighted to bring our readers the news of an exciting resource for AAAI members. AAAI has now completed a major initiative, begun five years ago, to develop a digital library of AAAI publications. The collection now comprises approximately 13,000 papers, including the full set of papers from the AAAI proceedings, papers from other major conferences, AAAI workshop and symposium technical reports, selected AAAI Press books, and the full contents of AI Magazine. This already-extensive collection is a growing resource, with new publications and access methods to be added over time. I encourage readers to visit it at the members' library section of the AAAI web site, www.aaai.org.

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Robert S. (Bob) Engelmore, who retired in 1998 He When the HPP's goal shifted to studying information Allan Terry's of Technology (later Carnegie Mellon University) Ph.D. dissertation and several publications and became a physics major. He had close grew out of this work. Working with crystallographers friendships with (later-to-be AI scientists) Professor Joseph Kraut and Dr. Steve Robert Lindsay and Ed Feigenbaum and Freer from the University of California at San roomed with Feigenbaum for six years of undergraduate Diego, Bob and Allan designed and implemented and graduate school. It graduate work, he met his future wife, Ellie, in was an ambitious project, involving sophisticated Pittsburgh. They were married in 1958.

This article reports on an extensive survey and analysis of research work related to machine learning as it applies to automated planning over the past 30 years. Major research contributions are broadly characterized by learning method and then descriptive subcategories. Survey results reveal learning techniques that have extensively been applied and a number that have received scant attention. We extend the survey analysis to suggest promising avenues for future research in learning based on both previous experience and current needs in the planning community.

The RoboCupJunior division of RoboCup is now entering its third year of international participation and is growing rapidly in size and popularity. This article first outlines the history of the junior league since it was first demonstrated in Paris at RoboCup-1998 and describes how it has evolved into the international sensation it is today. Although the popularity of the event is self-evident, we are working to identify and quantify the educational benefits of the initiative. The remainder of the article focuses on describing our efforts to encapsulate these qualities, highlighting results from a pilot study conducted at RoboCupJunior-2000 and presenting new data from a subsequent study of RoboCupJunior-2001.

Raymond Reiter, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and winner of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1993 Outstanding Research Scientist Award, died September 16, 2002, after a year-long struggle with cancer. Reiter, known throughout the world as "Ray," made foundational contributions to artifi- cial intelligence, knowledge representation and databases, and theorem proving.

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