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Past AAAI Officers

Presidents

(Since 1985, Presidents have served a two-year term, preceded by two years as President-Elect, and followed by two years as Past President. Prior to that time, presidents served one year in each position.)

  • Allen Newell (1979-1980)
  • Edward Feigenbaum (1980-1981)
  • Marvin Minsky (1981-1982)
  • Nils Nilsson (1982-1983)
  • John McCarthy (1983-1984)
  • Woodrow Bledsoe (1984-1985)
  • Patrick Winston (1985-1987)
  • Raj Reddy (1987-1989)
  • Daniel Bobrow (1989-1991)
  • Patrick Hayes (1991-1993)
  • Barbara Grosz (1993-1995)
  • Randall Davis (1995-1997)
  • David Waltz (1997-1999)
  • Bruce Buchanan (1999-2001)
  • Tom M. Mitchell (2001-2003)
  • Ron Brachman (2003-2005)
  • Alan Mackworth (2005-2007)
  • Eric Horvitz (2007-2009)
  • Martha E. Pollack (2009-2010)
  • Henry Kautz (2010-2012)
  • Manuela Veloso (2012-2014)
  • Thomas G. Dietterich (2014-2016)
  • Subbarao Kambhampati (2016-2018)
  • Yolanda Gil (2018-2020)
  • Bart Selman(2020-2022)
  • Francesca Rossi (2022-2024)

Secretary-Treasurers

  • Donald Walker (1979-1983)
  • Richard Fikes (1983-1986)
  • Bruce Buchanan (1987-1993)
  • Norman Nielsen (1993-2002)
  • Ted Senator (2003-2018)
  • David E. Smith (2019-)

Past Councilors

(Listed in chronological order according to expiration of term)

  • Term Expired in 1982
    Woody Bledsoe
    Jerome Feldman
    Herbert A. Simon
    William A. Woods
  • Term Expired in 1983
    Daniel G. Bobrow
    Drew McDermott
    John McCarthy
    David L. Waltz
  • Term Expired in 1984
    Barbara J. Grosz
    Charles J. Rieger III
    Gerald J. Sussman
    Bonnie L. Webber
  • Term Expired in 1985
    Saul A. Amarel
    Michael Genesereth
    Peter Hart
    Raj Reddy
  • Term Expired in 1986
    Eugene Charniak
    Randall Davis
    Stanley Rosenschein
    Mark Stefik
  • Term Expired in 1987
    Ronald Brachman
    John McDermott
    Charles Rich
    Edward Shortliffe
  • Term Expired in 1988
    John Seely Brown
    Ryszard Michalski
    Tom Mitchell
    Fernando Pereira
  • Term Expired in 1989
    Lynn Conway
    Barbara Grosz
    Douglas Lenat
    William Woods
  • Term Expired in 1990
    William J. Clancey
    Richard Duda
    Hector Levesque
    Kathleen McKeown
  • Term Expired in 1991
    Elaine Rich
    Geoffrey Hinton
    Wendy Lehnert
    Reid Smith
  • Term Expired in 1992
    Kenneth Forbus
    Howard Shrobe
    William Swartout
    J. Martin Tenenbaum
  • Term Expired in 1993
    Mark Fox
    Barbara Hayes-Roth
    Thomas Dietterich
    Richard Fikes
  • Term Expired in 1994
    Jaime Carbonell
    Paul Cohen
    Elaine Kant
    Candy Sidner
  • Term Expired in 1995
    Johan de Kleer
    Benjamin Kuipers
    Paul Rosenbloom
    Beverly Woolf
  • Term Expired in 1996
    Thomas Dean
    Robert Engelmore
    Peter Friedland
    Ramesh Patil
  • Term Expired in 1997
    Tim Finin
    Martha E. Pollack
    Katia Sycara
    Daniel Weld
  • Term Expired in 1998
    Kenneth Ford
    Richard Korf
    Steven Minton
    Lynn Andrea Stein
  • Term Expired in 1999
    Jon Doyle
    Leslie Pack Kaelbling
    Mel Montemerlo
    Edwina Rissland
  • Term Expired in 2000
    Jan Aikins
    Bonnie Dorr
    Eric Horvitz
    Stuart Russell
  • Term Expired in 2001
    Henry Kautz
    David McAllester
    Johanna Moore
    Michael P. Wellman
  • Term Expired in 2002
    Deborah McGuinnes
    Bart Selman
    Reid G. Simmons
    Manuela Veloso
  • Term Expired in 2003
    Craig Boutilier
    Rina Dechter
    Richard Doyle
    David Poole
  • Term Expired in 2004
    Marie des Jardins
    Craig Knoblock
    Daphne Koller
    Peter Norvig
  • Term Expired in 2005
    Carla Gomes
    Michael Littman
    Maja Mataric
    Yoav Shoham
  • Term Expired in 2006
    Steve Chien
    Yolanda Gil
    Haym Hirsh
    Andrew Moore
  • Term Expired in 2007
    Oren Etzioni
    Lise Getoor
    Karen Myers
    Illah Nourbakhsh
  • Term Expired in 2008
    Maria Gini
    Kevin Knight
    Peter Stone
    Sebastian Thrun
  • Term Expired in 2009
    David Aha
    David Musliner
    Michael Pazzani
    Holly Yanco
  • Term Expired in 2010
    Sheila McIlraith
    Rich Sutton
    David E. Smith
    Cynthia Breazeal
  • Term Expired in 2011
    Claire Cardie
    Amy Greenwald
    Gal Kaminka
    Tuomas Sandholm
  • Term Expired in 2012
    Carla Brodley
    Subbarao Kambhampati
    Mark Maybury
    Alan Schultz
  • Term Expired in 2013
    Maria Fox
    Adele Howe
    Jonathan Schaeffer
    Toby Walsh
  • Term Expired in 2014
    Kate Larson
    Michael Wooldridge
    Makoto Yokoo
    Shlomo Zilberstein
  • Term Expired in 2015
    Carla Gomes
    Julia Hirschberg
    Eduard Hovy
    Henry Lieberman
  • Term Expired in 2016
    Sven Koenig
    Sylvie Thiebaux
    Francesca Rossi
    Brian Williams
  • Term Expired in 2017
    Sonia Chernova
    Vincent Conitzer
    Boi Faltings
    Stephen Smith
  • Term Expired in 2018
    Charles Isbell
    Diane Litman
    Jennifer Neville
    Kiri L. Wagstaff
  • Term Expired in 2019
    Blai Bonet
    Mausam
    Michela Milano
    Qiang Yang
  • Term Expired in 2020
    Eugene Freuder
    Claire Monteleoni
    Cynthia Rudin
    Matthijs Spaan
  • Term Expired in 2021
    Cristina Conati
    Eric Eaton
    Ayanna Howard
    Ariel Procaccia
  • Term Expired in 2022
    Yiling Chen
    Judy Goldsmith
    Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
    Brian Scassellati
  • Term Expired in 2023
    Edith Elkind
    Susan Epstein
    Laura Hiatt
    Barry O’Sullivan

AI Magazine Editors

  • Alan M. Thompson (Spring 1980 – Summer 1981)
  • Robert S. Engelmore (Winter 1981-Winter 1991)
  • Ramesh Patil, (Spring 1992 – Spring 1996)
  • Elaine Rich, (Spring 1992 – Summer 1993)
  • Jude Shavlik, (Summer 1996 – Summer 1999)
  • David Leake, (Fall 1999 – Winter 2016)
  • Ashok Goel, (2017-)

AAAI Press Editors

  • William Clancey (1989-1992)
  • Kenneth Ford (1992 – 2004)
  • Anthony Cohn (2004 – 2016)

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