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I would like to add my support to Lawrence Hunter's proposal to modify the review process for the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). For some time now, I, too, have been disappointed with the majority of papers presented at NCAI-not with the quality of the papers but with the conservative style. I would leave a paper session thinking that AI is progressing but at a painstakingly slow pace! Someone, somewhere must be doing some really innovative research, but why isn't he or she presenting this work at the premier AI conference? Allowing controversial papers but maintaining the quality criteria is a needed improvement for NCAI and AI in general.