Accentuating the Magazine in AI Magazine

A magazine, Moshe informed me, is a collection of miscellaneous pieces, with emphasis on "collection" and "miscellaneous." Thus, starting with this spring 2018 issue, we are accentuating the "magazine" in AI Magazine. Most issues of AI Magazine in the past have been special issues containing a series of technical articles on specific topics. While we will continue to have special issues from time to time, most issues going forward will contain expository articles on a variety of topics. This issue, for example, contains a letter from AAAI Fellow Edwina Rissland, two articles based on award-winning papers at AAAI 2017, two articles on deployed AI applications selected from IAAI 2017, one article based on an award-winning classic AAAI paper, two competition reports, an AI in Industry column, and a conference report, among several other items.