]> Dr. Brachman is currently President of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has been Program Chair of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is the co-editor of several books, and with Hector Levesque and Ray Reiter in 1989 founded a series of International Conferences on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, which continue to this day. He served as Secretary-Treasurer for the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence from 1993 to 2002. He has published numerous technical papers, has won a Best Paper award, and is about to finish a textbook on knowledge representation and reasoning. He is a Founding Fellow of AAAI, and was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999. ]]>