Presidents
(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.)
- Allen Newell (1979-1980)
- Edward Feigenbaum (1980-1981)
- Marvin Minsky (1981-1982)
- Nils Nilsson (1982-1983)
- John McCarthy (1983-1984)
- Woodrow Bledsoe (1984-1985)
- Patrick Winston (1985-1987)
- Raj Reddy (1987-1989)
- Daniel Bobrow (1989-1991)
- Patrick Hayes (1991-1993)
- Barbara Grosz (1993-1995)
- Randall Davis (1995-1997)
- David Waltz (1997-1999)
- Bruce Buchanan (1999-2001)
- Tom M. Mitchell (2001-2003)
- Ron Brachman (2003-2005)
- Alan Mackworth (2005-2007)
- Eric Horvitz (2007-2009)
- Martha E. Pollack (2009-2010)
- Henry Kautz (2010-2012)
- Manuela Veloso (2012-2014)
- Thomas G. Dietterich (2014-2016)
- Subbarao Kambhampati (2016-2018)
- Yolanda Gil (2018-2020)
- Bart Selman(2020-2022)
- Francesca Rossi (2022-2024)
Secretary-Treasurers
- Donald Walker (1979-1983)
- Richard Fikes (1983-1986)
- Bruce Buchanan (1987-1993)
- Norman Nielsen (1993-2002)
- Ted Senator (2003-2018)
- David E. Smith (2019-)
Past Councilors
(Listed in chronological order according to expiration of term)
- Term Expired in 1982
Woody Bledsoe
Jerome Feldman
Herbert A. Simon
William A. Woods - Term Expired in 1983
Daniel G. Bobrow
Drew McDermott
John McCarthy
David L. Waltz - Term Expired in 1984
Barbara J. Grosz
Charles J. Rieger III
Gerald J. Sussman
Bonnie L. Webber - Term Expired in 1985
Saul A. Amarel
Michael Genesereth
Peter Hart
Raj Reddy - Term Expired in 1986
Eugene Charniak
Randall Davis
Stanley Rosenschein
Mark Stefik - Term Expired in 1987
Ronald Brachman
John McDermott
Charles Rich
Edward Shortliffe - Term Expired in 1988
John Seely Brown
Ryszard Michalski
Tom Mitchell
Fernando Pereira - Term Expired in 1989
Lynn Conway
Barbara Grosz
Douglas Lenat
William Woods - Term Expired in 1990
William J. Clancey
Richard Duda
Hector Levesque
Kathleen McKeown - Term Expired in 1991
Elaine Rich
Geoffrey Hinton
Wendy Lehnert
Reid Smith - Term Expired in 1992
Kenneth Forbus
Howard Shrobe
William Swartout
J. Martin Tenenbaum - Term Expired in 1993
Mark Fox
Barbara Hayes-Roth
Thomas Dietterich
Richard Fikes - Term Expired in 1994
Jaime Carbonell
Paul Cohen
Elaine Kant
Candy Sidner - Term Expired in 1995
Johan de Kleer
Benjamin Kuipers
Paul Rosenbloom
Beverly Woolf - Term Expired in 1996
Thomas Dean
Robert Engelmore
Peter Friedland
Ramesh Patil - Term Expired in 1997
Tim Finin
Martha E. Pollack
Katia Sycara
Daniel Weld - Term Expired in 1998
Kenneth Ford
Richard Korf
Steven Minton
Lynn Andrea Stein - Term Expired in 1999
Jon Doyle
Leslie Pack Kaelbling
Mel Montemerlo
Edwina Rissland - Term Expired in 2000
Jan Aikins
Bonnie Dorr
Eric Horvitz
Stuart Russell - Term Expired in 2001
Henry Kautz
David McAllester
Johanna Moore
Michael P. Wellman - Term Expired in 2002
Deborah McGuinnes
Bart Selman
Reid G. Simmons
Manuela Veloso - Term Expired in 2003
Craig Boutilier
Rina Dechter
Richard Doyle
David Poole - Term Expired in 2004
Marie des Jardins
Craig Knoblock
Daphne Koller
Peter Norvig - Term Expired in 2005
Carla Gomes
Michael Littman
Maja Mataric
Yoav Shoham - Term Expired in 2006
Steve Chien
Yolanda Gil
Haym Hirsh
Andrew Moore - Term Expired in 2007
Oren Etzioni
Lise Getoor
Karen Myers
Illah Nourbakhsh - Term Expired in 2008
Maria Gini
Kevin Knight
Peter Stone
Sebastian Thrun - Term Expired in 2009
David Aha
David Musliner
Michael Pazzani
Holly Yanco - Term Expired in 2010
Sheila McIlraith
Rich Sutton
David E. Smith
Cynthia Breazeal - Term Expired in 2011
Claire Cardie
Amy Greenwald
Gal Kaminka
Tuomas Sandholm - Term Expired in 2012
Carla Brodley
Subbarao Kambhampati
Mark Maybury
Alan Schultz - Term Expired in 2013
Maria Fox
Adele Howe
Jonathan Schaeffer
Toby Walsh - Term Expired in 2014
Kate Larson
Michael Wooldridge
Makoto Yokoo
Shlomo Zilberstein - Term Expired in 2015
Carla Gomes
Julia Hirschberg
Eduard Hovy
Henry Lieberman - Term Expired in 2016
Sven Koenig
Sylvie Thiebaux
Francesca Rossi
Brian Williams - Term Expired in 2017
Sonia Chernova
Vincent Conitzer
Boi Faltings
Stephen Smith - Term Expired in 2018
Charles Isbell
Diane Litman
Jennifer Neville
Kiri L. Wagstaff - Term Expired in 2019
Blai Bonet
Mausam
Michela Milano
Qiang Yang - Term Expired in 2020
Eugene Freuder
Claire Monteleoni
Cynthia Rudin
Matthijs Spaan - Term Expired in 2021
Cristina Conati
Eric Eaton
Ayanna Howard
Ariel Procaccia - Term Expired in 2022
Yiling Chen
Judy Goldsmith
Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Brian Scassellati - Term Expired in 2023
Edith Elkind
Susan Epstein
Laura Hiatt
Barry O’Sullivan
AI Magazine Editors
- Alan M. Thompson (Spring 1980 – Summer 1981)
- Robert S. Engelmore (Winter 1981-Winter 1991)
- Ramesh Patil, (Spring 1992 – Spring 1996)
- Elaine Rich, (Spring 1992 – Summer 1993)
- Jude Shavlik, (Summer 1996 – Summer 1999)
- David Leake, (Fall 1999 – Winter 2016)
- Ashok Goel, (2017-)
AAAI Press Editors
- William Clancey (1989-1992)
- Kenneth Ford (1992 – 2004)
- Anthony Cohn (2004 – 2016)