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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.