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AAI's Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-04) filled the top floor of the San Jose Convention Center from July 25-29, 2004. The week's program was full of recent advances in many different AI research areas, as well as emerging applications for AI. Within the various topics discussed at the conference, a number of strategic domains emerged where AI is being harnessed, including counterterrorism, space exploration, robotics, the Web, health care, scientific research, education, and manufacturing. Counter-Terrorism / Crisis Management / Defense--For decades, the Department of Defense has been a major funding source for AI research. Since the tragedies of September 11, there has been a new urgency to develop and field AIbased systems to aid the intelligence, defense, and emergency response communities.