We welcome additional short statements on the past, present and future of AI. Send your contribution of at most 250 words, along with your name, affiliation and contact URL to Matthew.Stone at Rutgers.edu by email. We will post responses here, and expect to submit a letter to the editor of AI Magazine with some highlights of what we get.

Note that while we expect to use this web site to foster as inclusive a discussion as possible, the web site will only serve this purpose if it remains a collection of concise, appropriate and relevant statements. Accordingly, we will continue to exercise our editorial judgment before posting any new contribution here.

Your response may address any of the issues we raised with our contributors. It's clearly too much for anyone to take a stand on everything in a brief statement. Instead, we hope that you will provide short, compelling and personal statements on perhaps one or two themes: vision, tradition, community, and profession.

1. Vision: We want to re-energize readers with the vision of AI: to create computational systems that perceive, reason and act with abilities comparable to our own, and in so doing, both improve the conditions of our lives and come to a new understanding of ourselves. What visions of intelligence resonate in today's world? What ideals will inspire the next 25 years of research?
2. Tradition: We want to sketch the traditions of AI, including specific illustrations of the important new insights into intelligence, and of the significant new technical contributions that let us build new kinds of artifacts and applications with these insights. What are some important results that have changed the field and will continue to do so? What concepts and practices are crucial for today's graduate students to master?
3. Community: We want to celebrate the community of AI researchers, and recognize through notable examples the interactions, collaborations, mentorship and pathbreaking leadership that has enabled us as researchers to build our own careers in AI and that will continue to serve to cement and support the field as a whole. What events and relationships shaped your career? And what are you doing---or what should we all be doing---to shepherd new researchers into AI?
4. Profession: We want to chart the progress of the profession within computer science and the broader intellectual world. How is AI perceived in the popular press? To what extent is AI appreciated by government institutions? What are career options for AI graduates?