Tim Finin has asked me to mention the 8th IEEE Conference on AI for Applications next March 2-6 in Monterey, California. 5,000-word papers on applications and enabling technologies are solicited; contact Tim for details. Proposals for panel discussions, tutorials, and workshops are also sought. The best submitted papers will be considered for a special issue of IEEE EXPERT to appear late in 1991. (A special issue of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering may also be available.) IBM will sponsor an award of $1,500 for the best student paper.

The closing date for joining IJCAI-91 workshops is June 15. (Each workshop is AUD$85.00.) Contact me if you need the email address or phone number for any workshop organizer. Topics are:

Parallel Processing for AI [Laveen Kanal] Decision Making in the [NL] Generation Process [Marie Meteer] Software Engineering for Knowledge-based Systems [Bob Jansen] Modeling for Intelligent Interaction [Judy Kay] AI and Business [Daniel O'Leary] Integrating AI and Databases [John Zelezikow] Dynamic Scene Understanding [Tom Huang] Changing Representation in Machine Learning [Katharina Morik] Full Implemented NL Understanding Systems [H.J. Novak] Evolution and Chaos in Cognitive Processing [Dwight Deugo] Fuzzy Control Workshop [Peter Eklund] Fuzzy Logic in AI [Anca Ralescu] Intelligent/Cooperative Information Systems [Mike Papazoglou] Natural Language Learning [David M.W. Powers] Knowledge in Medical Decision Support [Cynthia Sarmiento] Explanation Generation for KB Systems [Nel Wognum] AI in Design [John Gero] AI Approaches to Production Planning [Steve Garlick] Objects and AI [Mamdouh H. Ibrahim] Computational Approaches to Non-Literal Language [Dan Fass] Design of Rational Agents [Mike Georgeff] Reasoning in Adversarial Domains [Christopher Elsaesser] Situation Awareness [Simon Goss] Computer Vision [Ray Jarvis] Interfacing Production Systems/Real World [Franz Barachine] Verification and Validation of AI Systems [Marc Ayel]