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It has been a gratifying experience to observe and to participate in the growth of our Association's Magazine. When I first took over as editor, in the Fall of 1981, I worried about how we'd get enough material to put out the magazine four times a year. Lee Erman (who fingered mc for this job) used to encourage me to keep the pipeline of articles full, and I was concerned that it just be nonempty! At the AAAI Executive Council meeting in the summer of 1982, Herb Simon asked me what percentage of the articles submitted were rejected, and I was embarrassed to admit that I had rejected almost nothing since I had taken over- "All the news we get we print" was close to the truth. In 1982, we published four issues, averaging a little over 40 pages each.