Menlo Park, Calif.
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the nation’s scientific AI society, announces the new President-Elect and Executive Councilors elected by the society’s membership. Eric Horvitz of Microsoft Research has been elected AAAI President-Elect and will become President in 2007 for a two-year term. Horvitz joins President Alan MacWorth, University of British Columbia, and Ron Brachman, immediate Past President, on the presidential team. Tom Mitchell of Carnegie Mellon University completes his six years of service to AAAI.
The newly elected Councilors include:
- Maria Gini, University of Minnesota
- Kevin Knight, USC/Information Sciences Institute
- Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
- Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University
Councilors serve a three year term, and one-third of the council rotates off each year.
Other Council members include: (through 2006):
- Steve Chien, JPL / California Institute of Technology
- Yolanda Gil, USC / ISI
- Haym Hirsh, University of Rutgers
- Andrew Moore, Carnegie Mellon University
(through 2007):
- Oren Etzioni, University of Washington
- Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park
- Karen Myers, SRI International
- Illah Nourbakhsh, NASA Ames Research Center / Carnegie Mellon University
Councilors who complete their three years of service this year include:
- Carla Gomes, Cornell University
- Michael Littman, Rutgers University
- Maja Mataric, University of Southern California
- Yoav Shoham, Stanford University
“We are very grateful to Tom Mitchell and to these retiring Councilors who have given — and continue to give — so generously of their time and talents to the organization,” says Carol Hamilton, AAAI Executive Director.