CALL FOR ARTICLES Crossroads, the ACM Student Magazine Artificial Intelligence Issue (September 1996) DUE DATE: May 6, 1996 SUBMISSION ADDRESS: xrds-submit@acm.org INFORMATION: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/ crossroads@acm.org The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a challenging area of study in computer science that perennially fascinates students not just with its current state but with its future protential as well. Crossroads, the ACM's international student magazine, will explore several areas within the field in its September 1996 issue. The Crossroads editorial staff invites authors to submit AI survey articles for this issue. Accepted articles will be published both in hardcopy and in electronic form on Crossroads' WWW site. We encourage authors to submit survey articles dealing with topics drawn from three broad areas within AI: 1) perception and robotics, 2) intelligent interfaces, and 3) reasoning. The following partial list of topics included within each area is provided to give prospective authors a general picture of each area. It is by no means exhaustive; other relevant topics will be considered. 1) PERCEPTION & ROBOTICS machine vision, speech recognition, robot design, auditory scene analysis, robot control, etc. 2) INTELLIGENT INTERFACES information retrieval, natural language processing, intelligent tutoring systems, intelligent WWW search engines, etc. 3) REASONING planning, search, machine learning, logic, theorem proving, intelligent games, knowledge representation, neural nets, etc. Submissions may range in length from 1500 to 6000 words. Articles should be written for a general audience of undergraduate and graduate students interested in computers, and should present at least two of the following: 1) basic description of the kinds of problems being worked on in the AI topic 2) the state of the art of research in this AI area 3) the state of the art of commercial applications in the AI topic 4) open problems or future research/commercial development trends in the AI topic Interviews with AI researchers; reviews of AI-related books, software, videos, or conferences; and opinion columns on AI-related issues are also welcome. We especially encourage students to submit articles. However, articles written or coauthored by professionals will also be considered. SUBMISSIONS The submission deadline is Monday, May 6th. Submissions should be sent via electronic mail to xrds-submit@acm.uiuc.edu. Do not send submissions as MIME attachments. Drafts can be in HTML, ASCII, or LaTeX, but HTML is preferred since it will be required for the final drafts. Articles must not use any HTML extensions. The subject header should indicate the submission's general AI area. Please see http://www.acm.org/crossroads/doc/information/writing.html for more information on submission formats. Prospective authors are invited to send email to the guest editor Frank Klassner (klassner@cs.umass.edu) indicating their intention to submit an article. In this way we can keep everyone informed of any changes in deadlines or formats. Questions about possible article topics can also be sent to the guest editor. NOTIFICATION Accepted authors will be notified within about 3 weeks of the submission deadline, and will have 2-3 weeks for revisions. Final drafts will be due in early July.