AAAI News

Barbara Grosz and Randall Davis will take over leadership of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence for the next two years. Grosz, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, is the new President, succeeding Patrick Hayes of the University of Illinois. Randall Davis of MIT is President-Elect. "In the last several years," Grosz said, "AI has played an increasingly central role in the development of systems for effective management of complex information and flexible access to large knowledge bases. At the same time, there have been significant advances across a spectrum of AI subfields. "The employment of AI techniques will become even more essential in the future," Grosz pointed out, "as computer systems allow access to increasing amounts of diverse types of information that will become available in electronic form. AAAI will continue to provide forums for presenting advances in AI science and technology, and to encourage interaction between the business and ...