During their term of office, each AAAI President is invited to deliver a presidential address to the AI community. Traditionally, this address has been delivered at the AAAI National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, and, in recent years, the addresses have been published in AI Magazine. As a service to the community, AI Magazine is collecting these articles and making them available (in PDF format) to the scientific community at large. Links to the addresses are found below.
1985: Presidential Address by Woody Bledsoe
1988: Presidential Address by Raj Reddy
1990: Presidential Address by Daniel Bobrow
1994: Presidential Address by Barbara Grosz
1996: Presidential Address by Randall Davis
1998: Presidential Address by David Waltz
2000: Presidential Address by Bruce Buchanan (Presidential Address Slides by Bruce Buchanan)