Derek Partridge

The Workshop on the Foundations of AI (WFAI) was held at the Holiday Inn, Las Cruces, New Mexico, on 6, 7, and 8 February 1986. Financial support for the workshop came from the National Science Foundation; the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI); and the Computing Research Laboratory (CRL) at New Mexico State University, which also hosted the meeting. My original vague idea for this workshop was backed enthusiastically by CRL right from the start, first by Roger Schvaneveldt as acting director and later by Yorick Wilks when he took over as director. Andrew Ortony played a leading role in both casting and production for this workshop; hc claims that he doesn't love telephoning people, just doesn't mind it. These three and the rest of the program committee, as well as a number of other people, reviewed the considerable number of submitted papers.