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From: mack@bay.cs.ubc.ca (Alan Mackworth)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: 1991 & 1993 IJCAI sites
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Date: 17 Mar 89 17:21:14 GMT
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The rotation system for IJCAI is still in place.  The rotation 
period has been extended so that now every third IJCAI (every 
sixth year) will be held in North America.  IJCAI '95 will be 
held in North America.  The IJCAI Board of Trustees decided to 
do this for several reasons.  Primarily, we wanted to 
acknowledge the fact that the world of AI is now more 
international that it was in its early days. Requiring the 
premier international conference for the field to be in North 
America every second time was no longer appropriate and 
reflected, perhaps, a certain North American chauvinism on our 
part which we decided to offset.

  -- Alan Mackworth   mack@vision.cs.ubc.ca