New Officers for AAAI

At IJCAI-95, Randall Davis assumed the office of president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Davis is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and associate director of the AI Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Davis succeeds Barbara Grosz, Gordon McKay professor of computer science in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University. “Barbara Grosz provided strong leadership in a variety of ways to our organization, and her contributions will benefit the association for years to come,” said Carol Hamilton, executive director of AAAI. “We are fortunate that Randy Davis is stepping in, to guide the society as AI’s key role in today’s technologically advanced world unfolds.” The new president-elect of AAAI is David Waltz of the Computer Science Research Division of NEC Research Institute (Princeton, New Jersey) and adjunct professor of computer science at Brandeis University (Waltham, Massachusetts). Four councilors were also elected by the AAAI membership: (1) Steven Minton, principal investigator at the National Aeronautic and Space Administration’s (NASA) Ames Research Center; (2) Lynn Andrea Stein, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT; (3) Kenneth Ford, director of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human and Machine Cognition and associate professor of computer science at the University of West Florida; (4) and Richard E. Korf, professor of computer science at the University of California at Los Angeles. Montrial Wrap-Up