An Introduction to This Special Issue of AI Magazine

Deploying AI systems on the Web provides tangible evidence of the power and utility of AI techniques. Next time you encounter AI bashing, wouldn't it be satisfying to counter with a handful of well-chosen URLs? At the conference, Jude Shavlik asked me to edit a special issue of AI Magazine describing AI systems that have the Web as their domain. Indeed, the authors of each article included in this special issue have promised to create and maintain a URL pointing to a working prototype. Now, almost a year later, we have the fruit of this labor.