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The AAAI News Column covers membership and conference statistics, reports on workshops, financial data, Council activities, and other ongoing activities pursued by the society Please send suggestions and feedback by electronic mail to AAAI-Office@Sumex-Aim Stanford.edu Spring Symposium Series In March AAAI sponsored the first Spring Symposium Series, intended to promote technical discussion of specialty topics in small-group meetings. As the following reports testify, the Series was a tremendous success Plans are underway for the next Series, to be held at Stanford University again next March. Suggestions should be sent to Hector Levesque or Claudia Mazzetti. The following are edited reports provided by the five symposium leaders.