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Presidents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(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.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Allen Newell (1979-1980)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Edward Feigenbaum (1980-1981)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Marvin Minsky (1981-1982)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nils Nilsson (1982-1983)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • John McCarthy (1983-1984)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Woodrow Bledsoe (1984-1985)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Patrick Winston (1985-1987)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Raj Reddy (1987-1989)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Daniel Bobrow (1989-1991)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Patrick Hayes (1991-1993)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Barbara Grosz (1993-1995)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Randall Davis (1995-1997)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • David Waltz (1997-1999)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bruce Buchanan (1999-2001)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Tom M. Mitchell (2001-2003)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Ron Brachman (2003-2005)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Alan Mackworth (2005-2007)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Eric Horvitz (2007-2009)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Martha E. Pollack (2009-2010)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Henry Kautz (2010-2012)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Manuela Veloso (2012-2014)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Thomas G. Dietterich (2014-2016)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Subbarao Kambhampati (2016-2018)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Yolanda Gil (2018-2020)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Bart Selman(2020-2022)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Francesca Rossi (2022-2025)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Secretary-Treasurers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
      \n
    • Donald Walker (1979-1983)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Richard Fikes (1983-1986)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Bruce Buchanan (1987-1993)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Norman Nielsen (1993-2002)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Ted Senator (2003-2018)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • David E. Smith (2019-)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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      Past Councilors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      (Listed in chronological order according to expiration of term)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • Term Expired in 1982
        <\/strong>Woody Bledsoe
        Jerome Feldman
        Herbert A. Simon
        William A. Woods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1983
        <\/strong>Daniel G. Bobrow
        Drew McDermott
        John McCarthy
        David L. Waltz<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1984
        <\/strong>Barbara J. Grosz
        Charles J. Rieger III
        Gerald J. Sussman
        Bonnie L. Webber<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1985
        <\/strong>Saul A. Amarel
        Michael Genesereth
        Peter Hart
        Raj Reddy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1986
        <\/strong>Eugene Charniak
        Randall Davis
        Stanley Rosenschein
        Mark Stefik<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1987
        <\/strong>Ronald Brachman
        John McDermott
        Charles Rich
        Edward Shortliffe<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1988
        <\/strong>John Seely Brown
        Ryszard Michalski
        Tom Mitchell
        Fernando Pereira<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1989
        <\/strong>Lynn Conway
        Barbara Grosz
        Douglas Lenat
        William Woods<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1990
        <\/strong>William J. Clancey
        Richard Duda
        Hector Levesque
        Kathleen McKeown<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1991
        <\/strong>Elaine Rich
        Geoffrey Hinton
        Wendy Lehnert
        Reid Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1992
        <\/strong>Kenneth Forbus
        Howard Shrobe
        William Swartout
        J. Martin Tenenbaum<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1993
        <\/strong>Mark Fox
        Barbara Hayes-Roth
        Thomas Dietterich
        Richard Fikes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1994
        <\/strong>Jaime Carbonell
        Paul Cohen
        Elaine Kant
        Candy Sidner<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1995
        <\/strong>Johan de Kleer
        Benjamin Kuipers
        Paul Rosenbloom
        Beverly Woolf<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1996
        <\/strong>Thomas Dean
        Robert Engelmore
        Peter Friedland
        Ramesh Patil<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1997
        <\/strong>Tim Finin
        Martha E. Pollack
        Katia Sycara
        Daniel Weld<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1998
        <\/strong>Kenneth Ford
        Richard Korf
        Steven Minton
        Lynn Andrea Stein<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 1999
        <\/strong>Jon Doyle
        Leslie Pack Kaelbling
        Mel Montemerlo
        Edwina Rissland<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2000
        <\/strong>Jan Aikins
        Bonnie Dorr
        Eric Horvitz
        Stuart Russell<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2001
        <\/strong>Henry Kautz
        David McAllester
        Johanna Moore
        Michael P. Wellman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2002
        <\/strong>Deborah McGuinnes
        Bart Selman
        Reid G. Simmons
        Manuela Veloso<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2003
        <\/strong>Craig Boutilier
        Rina Dechter
        Richard Doyle
        David Poole<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2004
        <\/strong>Marie des Jardins
        Craig Knoblock
        Daphne Koller
        Peter Norvig<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2005
        <\/strong>Carla Gomes
        Michael Littman
        Maja Mataric
        Yoav Shoham<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2006
        <\/strong>Steve Chien
        Yolanda Gil
        Haym Hirsh
        Andrew Moore<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2007
        <\/strong>Oren Etzioni
        Lise Getoor
        Karen Myers
        Illah Nourbakhsh<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2008
        <\/strong>Maria Gini
        Kevin Knight
        Peter Stone
        Sebastian Thrun<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2009
        <\/strong>David Aha
        David Musliner
        Michael Pazzani
        Holly Yanco<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2010
        <\/strong>Sheila McIlraith
        Rich Sutton
        David E. Smith
        Cynthia Breazeal<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2011
        <\/strong>Claire Cardie
        Amy Greenwald
        Gal Kaminka
        Tuomas Sandholm<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2012
        <\/strong>Carla Brodley
        Subbarao Kambhampati
        Mark Maybury
        Alan Schultz<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2013
        <\/strong>Maria Fox
        Adele Howe
        Jonathan Schaeffer
        Toby Walsh<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2014
        <\/strong>Kate Larson
        Michael Wooldridge
        Makoto Yokoo
        Shlomo Zilberstein<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2015
        <\/strong>Carla Gomes
        Julia Hirschberg
        Eduard Hovy
        Henry Lieberman<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2016
        <\/strong>Sven Koenig
        Sylvie Thiebaux
        Francesca Rossi
        Brian Williams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2017
        <\/strong>Sonia Chernova
        Vincent Conitzer
        Boi Faltings
        Stephen Smith<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2018
        <\/strong>Charles Isbell
        Diane Litman
        Jennifer Neville
        Kiri L. Wagstaff<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2019
        <\/strong>Blai Bonet
        Mausam
        Michela Milano
        Qiang Yang<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2020
        <\/strong>Eugene Freuder
        Claire Monteleoni
        Cynthia Rudin
        Matthijs Spaan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2021
        <\/strong>Cristina Conati
        Eric Eaton
        Ayanna Howard
        Ariel Procaccia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2022
        <\/strong>Yiling Chen
        Judy Goldsmith
        Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
        Brian Scassellati<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2023
        <\/strong>Edith Elkind
        Susan Epstein
        Laura Hiatt
        Barry O’Sullivan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      • Term Expired in 2025<\/strong>
        Xuelong Li
        Felipe Meneguzzi
        Julie Shah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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        AI Magazine Editors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
          \n
        • Alan M. Thompson (Spring 1980 – Summer 1981)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Robert S. Engelmore (Winter 1981-Winter 1991)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Ramesh Patil, (Spring 1992 – Spring 1996)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Elaine Rich, (Spring 1992 – Summer 1993)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Jude Shavlik, (Summer 1996 – Summer 1999)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • David Leake, (Fall 1999 – Winter 2016)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • Ashok Goel, (2017-)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
          \n
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          AAAI Press Editors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
            \n
          • William Clancey (1989-1992)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Kenneth Ford (1992 – 2004)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n
          • Anthony Cohn (2004 – 2016)<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":40078,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","ub_ctt_via":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"full-width-content","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-40898","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"yoast_head":"\nPast AAAI Officers - AAAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aaai.org\/about-aaai\/aaai-officers-and-committees\/past-aaai-officers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Past AAAI Officers - 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