Happy 20th birthday, AI EDAM

摘要

In 1997, in a farewell message in Volume 11, Issue 1, of AI EDAM I recounted how the journal came to be established in 1987 and how I became the Founding Editor. At that point I was handing over the reigns to a new Editor, Bill Birmingham. Five years later, Bill turned the enterprise over to our current Editor, Dave Brown. Now, a total of 20 years has passed. Twenty years, a goodly length of time in our current world. How have we done? To plagiarize from that 1997 farewell message, recall that we intended that AI EDAM be "an archival research journal that is intended to reach two audiences: engineers and designers who see AI technologies as powerful means for solving difficult engineering problems; and researchers in AI and computer science who are interested in applications of AI and in the theoretical issues that arise from such applications." Twenty years out, just as after 10 years, we have achieved this goal—and if not optimally, certainly we have "satisficed."