The governor of Tennessee has approved a law that aims to protect musical artists from exploitation or replication by artificial intelligence. Gov. Bill Lee signed into law the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security (ELVIS) Act on Thursday at a honky-tonk bar in Nashville. "There are certainly many things that are positive about what AI does," Lee said during the event. "It also, when fallen into the hands of bad actors, it can destroy this industry." "It can rob an individual, these individual artists to whose unique God-given gifts transform people's lives," the governor added.

AR&A techniques have been used to solve a variety of tasks, including automatic programming, constraint satisfaction, design, diagnosis, machine learning, search, planning, reasoning, game playing, scheduling, and theorem proving. The primary purpose of AR&A techniques in such settings is to overcome computational intractability. In addition, AR&A techniques are useful for accelerating learning and summarizing sets of solutions. The Fifth Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation (SARA-2002) was held from 2 to 4 August 2002, directly after the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2002). It was chaired by Sven Koenig from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Robert Holte from the University of Alberta (Canada) and held at Kananaskis Mountain Lodge, Kananaskis Village, Alberta (Canada) between Calgary and Banff in the Rocky Mountains.

He married Patricia Enderson in 1950, and they raised five children. He received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1954 from the University of Southern California. His dissertation was entitled "The Prediction of Accident Rates from Basic Design Features of USAF Aircraft." His first job after graduation was with Douglas Aircraft Corporation in Santa Monica, California, where he developed computerized methods for statistical forecasting of labor costs for building newly designed airplanes. He began work in 1955 at RAND Corporation and continued in 1957 at its offshoot, the System Development Corporation (SDC), also in Santa Monica, where he was head of the Language Processing Research Program until 1968.

The 1994 Florida AI Research Symposium was held 5-7 May at Pensacola Beach, Florida. This symposium brought together researchers and practitioners in AI, cognitive science, and allied disciplines to discuss timely topics, cuttingedge research, and system development efforts in areas spanning the entire AI field. Symposium highlights included Pat Hayes's comparison of the history of AI to the history of powered flight and Clark Glymour's discussion of the prehistory of AI. This symposium (held annually since 1987) brings together a diverse group of researchers and practitioners in AI, cognitive science, and allied disciplines to discuss timely topics, cutting-edge research, and system development efforts in areas spanning the entire AI field. FLAIRS-94 was hosted by the Florida AI Research Society, the University of West Florida, and Florida State University.

In this and the next issue of AI Magazine, we will present extended versions of papers presented at IAAI-12 (held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) that were selected for their description of AI technologies that are either in practical use or close to it. We also present an article by Ramon Lopez de Mantaras based on his 2011 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture. Our selections for this issue begin with Playing with Cases: Rendering Expressive Music with Case-Based Reasoning by Ramon Lopez de Mantaras and Josep Lluís Arcos, based on the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture at IAAI-11 in San Francisco, California. Lopez de Mantaras received the Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award for his pioneering research contributions in a breadth of artificial intelligence areas, especially pattern recognition and case-based reasoning, leading to novel applications in design, diagnosis, and music, and for extensive international leadership and service for the AI community. He is also a founding member of several AI companies.

Carnegie Mellon University established a branch campus in Qatar in the fall of 2004. We are offering a BS degree in Computer Science to an international student body. The university invites applications for a visiting faculty position to begin as early as January 2006. We are seeking a faculty member in the area of Learning Science and Technology with research experience ideally in designing, implementing, deploying, and evaluating educational technology in school or college settings. An ability to teach courses in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, or related areas is also desired.

Czerwinski, Mary, see Nguyen, Trung 1992 AAAI Robot Exhibition and Competition see Dean, Thomas 1992 Workshop on Design Rationale Capture and Use, The, see Lee, Jintae Advances in Real-Time Expert System Technologies, see Barachini, Franz AI and Creativity: 1993 Spring Symposium Report, see Kim, Steven AI and N&Hard Problems: 1993 Spring Symposium Report, see Crawford, James AI Research and Application Development at Boeing's Huntsville Laboratories see Tanner, Steve Anick, Peter; and Simoudis, Evange-10s. Agent Architectures, see Hanks, Steve Berman, Jay I. see Wright, Jon R. Bonasso, R. Peter see Dean, Thomas Bookman, Lawrence, see Sun, Ron Brown, Karen E. see Wright, Jon R. Building Lexicons Two Winner see Congdon, Clare Carnes, Ray, see Tanner, Steve Case-Based Reasoning and Information Retrieval: 1993 Spring Symposium Report, see Anick, Peter Chandrasekaran, B.; Narayanan, N. Hari; and Iwasaki, Yumi. Charniak, Eugene, see Goldman, Robert l? Chien, Steve, see Gat, Erann. Cohen, Paul R., see Hanks, Steve Compaq Quicksource: Providing the Consumer with the Power Drummond, Mark, see Lansky, Amy Engineering Design through Constraint-Based Reasoning, see Murtagh, Niall Etzioni, Oren. Goal-Driven Learning: Fundamental Issues: A Symposium Report, see Leake, David Goldman, Robert l?; Charniak, Eugene; Gale, William; and Norvig, Peter.

AAAI President's Message, Z(1): Winter 1980, 1. AAAI see American Association for Artificial Intelligence. Abbott, Kathy see Orlando, Nancy. Adelson, Beth see Hendler, James. Cercone, Nick see McCalla, Gordon. Clancey, William J. Review of States of Mind, 4(4): Winter 1983, 61-66.

Recently I wrote about an interesting new project that's helping to deepen our understanding of the cosmos. A team from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are working on a prototype of an army of 5,000 robots that can head out into the galaxy. The machines, which are known as ProtoDESI, come in'platoons' of 10 robots and are designed to help us enhance the accuracy of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI). DESI is intended to provide a 3D map of the universe and allow scientists to further explore things like dark matter. A second team, from University College London, are using machine learning techniques in their search for habitable worlds.