After Seventeen Years and 70 Issues ...

Now, 70 issues and 17 years later, I am still deeply grateful for the opportunity to contribute to AAAI and to the AI community through the editorship. It has been a privilege to guide the magazine's coverage and a treat to have the first look at exciting articles as they arrive. It has been an honor and pleasure to work with all those individuals -- worldwide -- whose efforts have made, and continue to make the magazine a success. It has been a joy to edit this magazine. However, now that my administrative role at Indiana University has grown, I realize that the time has come for me to pass the torch and allow new leadership to build on the magazine's many strengths.