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presid.2[s84,jmc]	Yet another try at a second presidential message

	The state of the art in any science includes the criteria
for evaluating research.  Like every other aspect of the science,
it has to be developed.  The criteria for evaluating AI research
are not in very good shape.  I had intended to produce four
presidential messages during my term but have managed only two,
because this one has proved so difficult to write.

	One problem that AI has yet to completely overcome might
be called the "Look, ma, no hands" syndrome.  A paper reports
that a computer has been programmed to do what no computer program
has previously done, and that constitutes the report.  In what
way the science has been advanced by this work or other people
are aided by the paper in their work may be entirely unapparent.