LAWS@KL.SRI.COM (Ken Laws) (05/09/88)
This issue, the 100th of this year, is the last AIList Digest I will edit. After almost exactly five years, I am abandoning my career in volunteer publishing and giving the chair to Nick Papadakis. I'm sure all of you are as glad as I that Nick stepped forward, whether or not it was of his own free will. Future submissions should be mailed to AIList@AI.AI.MIT.EDU, with administrative mail to AIList-Request@AI.AI.MIT.EDU. (I will set up aliases so that mail to the old addresses will be rerouted to MIT.) It may take a while to develop new mailing procedures, so be patient. If you want to help Nick, add meaningful Subject fields to your messages and be sure to notify him if you are going to drop off the net. I will be leaving for NSF in just over a month, arriving about June 30. Sorry I haven't time to visit you all on the drive over. Lily and I have to get to Washington with our three kids -- Brandon, 8; Kelsey, 6; and Devon, 1 -- to look for a house. (If you know of a bargain 4-bedroom rental in Bethesda, Falls Church, or any really great school district there, we'd like to hear about it.) I look forward to meeting many of you during my stay at NSF. Part of my job, as Program Manager for Robotics and Machine Intelligence, will be to send out proposals for peer review. I have started to build a database of addresses and professional interests of potential reviewers (and people able to suggest good reviewers). If you wish to volunteer, just send me a note with keywords for your areas of interest. (Otherwise I'll take names from conference announcements and journal articles.) Good luck to all of you, and especially to Nick! -- Ken -------