The Machine Learning journal: 250 issues and counting

摘要

This issue of the Machine Learning journal is the 250th published since the start of the journal in March 1986. For the first five years, four issues were published annually; in 1991 this was increased to six issues, and to eight the following year. From 1993 onwards, the Machine Learning journal publishes 12 monthly issues in four volumes annually. As I only started my job as Editor-in-Chief in July this year, I cannot claim credit for this remarkable and sustained output, which is largely due to the hard work of my predecessors: Pat Langley (1986-9), Jaime Carbonell (1989-92), Tom Dietterich (1993-8), Rob Holte (1998-2003) and Foster Provost (2004-10). To mark the 25th anniversary of the journal in Mach 2011, we will hear from some of them in the coming year as they look back on their time at the helm of the journal, commenting on what was happening in the field back then and what lessons we can learn for machine learning today and tomorrow.