AI Topics

Although AI Topics is designed for the lay public, it serves a much larger audience. Much of the genetic code for this web site, however, was actually written when the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) came into existence. In the 1980 President's Message delivered by AAAI's first president, Allen Newell, one finds many of the responsibilities, principles, and protocols that have become part of the very fiber of AAAI. Not surprisingly, some of these elements were inherited (Newell 1980, p. 3): [W]e are a society born into a community of societies. Scientific societies are for their science.