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A workshop on high-level connectionist models was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on 9-11 April 1988 with support from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Office of Naval Research. John Barnden and Jordan Pollack organized and hosted the workshop and will edit a book containing the proceedings and commentary. The book will be published by Ablex as the first volume in a series entitled Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computation Theory. The two fields are often posed as paradigmatic enemies, and a risk of severing them exists. Few connectionist results are published in the mainstream AI journals and conference proceedings other than those sponsored by the Cognitive Science Society, and many neural-network researchers and industrialists proceed without consideration of the problems (and progress) of AI.