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This issue marks the end of volume 12 and my last issue as editor in chief. In 1981 when Lee Erman (then chairman of the Publications Committee) asked me to take over the editorship of a fledgling magazine, I assumed it would be a Z-or 3-year responsibility. I never expected to still be doing it 10 years later. I also never expected it to be such a pleasurable avocation. The pleasure comes from several directions: sitting in an honored position to observe developments in AI all over the world by being the recipient of dozens of papers every year; working with an excellent supporting staff of coeditors, assistants, and production people; and receiving compliments from colleagues for doing a good job.