AAAI is pleased to announce the establishment of two new awards, to be presented annually at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (except in years when the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence is held in North America). This award will honor the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year. The 1999 award will be given to the most influential paper(s) from the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford, California.

February 26: Intelligent Systems Demonstration Proposals due Information about the conference is available by writing to ncai@aaai. The 1999 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 artificial intelligence, usually over at least a ten 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.

AAAI membership is required for eligibility. For further information regarding the Student Volunteer Program, please contact AAAI at volunteer@aaai.org The deadline for volunteer applications is May 31, 1999. Please mark your calendars now for AAAI-99, which will be held July 18-22 in Orlando, Florida at the Omni Rosen Hotel. The Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence will continue the 1998 experiment of collocation with at least two conferences, the Eleventh Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-99).

RoboCup, World Cup Robot Soccer, is a task for a team of multiple, fastmoving robots in a dynamic environment. The first RoboCup Competition will be held as part of the special program at IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, Japan, 23 to 29 August. There will be two tracks: one for physical robots and a second for software simulations. The Robo-Cup task offers opportunities for research on both the hardware and software aspects of multiagent systems. More information can be found at the RoboCup web site, http://www.robocup.org/RoboCup.

Computer Corporatiorz of America, Technology Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Abstract Tsukuba Expo '85 is huge, interesting, and fun. The Japanese pavilions are plush and well-organized, and contain some impressive artificial intelligence demonstrations. The U.S. pavilion is an embarrassment. Tsukuba Expo '85 opened on March 17,1985, to enormous publicity. The New York Times reported that "the budget for the fair is more than $2 billion, and individual companies have spent large sums.

In October 1981,.Japan announced a national project to develop highly innovative computer systems for the 199Os, with the title "Fifth Generation Computer Systems " This paper is a personal view of that project, its significance, and reactions to it. The informatiou available to me at the time of writing (June 1982) is not as complete as I would have liked, a.nd Prcscnted at the Pergarnon Infotcch State of the Art Conference on "Japan and the Fifth Generation " in London, England, 27-29 Septemher 1982 Technical Note 265 I apologise for any mistakes or misinterpretations I may therefore have made. ETL and, in particular, to Kazuhiro includes "expert systems" and natural language interfaces. Thus VLSI technology is to be exploited to build advanced parallel architectures for AItype applications, where the basic machine language will be an extension of the logic programming language Prolog. So logic programming and Prolog play a crucial role in the systems envisaged.

Of course, the book's authors, psychologist Keith Holyoak and philosopher Paul Thagard, have good reason for this discussion: to focus on the "analogy war" that went on for years in the upper echelons of the U.S. government. Politicians think by analogy all the time, and the fates of nations hang on their idiosyncratic analogical instincts, wise or not. Military leaders, too, are guided by precedents, and Holyoak and Thagard ironically note that generals often prepare for the war that they last fought. However, they also point out that one can select one's precedents in a deeper manner than that. In fact, they devote three pages to George Ball, undersecretary of state in the Johnson administration, "who history must now credit as the greatest American political analogist of his time" (p. To be sure, Ball saw the appeal of the Korea, Munich, and dominochain analogies, but in each, he also saw serious weaknesses; more important, he felt he saw deeper similarities to the situation the ...

This article is the content of an invited talk given by the authors at the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96). The piece begins with a short history of the competition, then discusses the technical challenges and the political and cultural issues associated with bringing it off every year. We also cover the science and engineering involved with the robot tasks and the educational and commercial aspects of the competition. We finish with a discussion of the community formed by the organizers, participants, and the conference attendees. The original talk made liberal use of video clips and slide photographs; so, we have expanded the text and added photographs to make up for the lack of such media.

This article contains the reports of the AI for Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications, Deceptive and Counter-Deceptive Machines, Self-Confidence in Autonomous Systems, and Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents symposia, which were held November 12-14, 2015 in Arlington, Virginia. The titles of the six symposia were as follows: AI for Human-Robot Interaction, Cognitive Assistance in Government and Public Sector Applications, Deceptive and Counter-Deceptive Machines, Embedded Machine Learning, Self-Confidence in Autonomous Systems, and Sequential Decision Making for Intelligent Agents. This article contains the reports from five of the symposia. Human-robot interaction (HRI) is a broad community encompassing robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), human-computer interaction (HCI), psychology, and social science. In this meeting, we sought to bring together and strengthen the subset of the HRI community that is focused on the AI challenges inherent to HRI.

Workshop Report The 1994 Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) focused on the evaluation of CBR theories, models, systems, and system components. The CBR community addressed the evaluation of theories and implemented systems, with the consensus that a balance between novel innovations and evaluations could maximize progress. The 4 invited talks, 14 paper presentations, 19 poster presentations, and 1 summary panel discussion were attended by 66 participants. The four invited speakers discussed how CBR approaches can be evaluated in research projects, industrial applications, and military tasks. Katia Sycara (Carnegie Mellon University [CMU]) outlined an exhaustive set of measures for evaluating CBR systems and discussed how she applied some of these measures in empirical comparisons with other approaches for solving job shop scheduling problems.