At ECAI 2012, we will celebrate several anniversaries :
- the Turing centennial
- 25 years of AI Communications
- the 20th ECAI
This will take of a special session where a number of distinguished speakers will provide  a historical perspective on the field of artificial intelligence in Europe and beyond. It will be accompanied by a special issue of AI Communications (that will appear after ECAI 2012

Confirmed speakers for this session include:

Wolfgang Bibel, Alan Bundy,  Hector Geffner, Malik Ghallab,  Stephen Muggleton, Erik Sandewall and Aaron Sloman. 

IOS Press provides financial support for this session and its director, Dr. Einar Fredriksson, will introduce the session.

Slides

• Alan Bundy: European Collaboration on Automated Reasoning
• Wolfgang Bibel: Artificial Intelligence in a Historical Perspective
• Hector Geffner: Artificial Intelligence: From Programs to Solvers
• Malik Ghallab: Deliberate Action in Robotics: A Perspectiv
• Stephen Muggleton: Alan Turing and the development of Artificial Intelligence