This report represents the efforts of the Strategic Directions in Computing Research AI Working Group---Ronald Brachman, Thomas Dean (CoChair) , Johan de Kleer, Thomas Dietterich, Jon Doyle (Co-Chair), Cordell Green, Barbara Grosz, Ian Horswill, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Daphne Koller, Joseph Marks, Fernando Pereira, Bart Selman, Yoav Shoham, Howard Shrobe, William Swartout, Michael Wellman, and
... [Show full abstract] Shlomo Zilberstein ---formed as part of the ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Laboratory for Computer Science on June 14--15, 1996. Group members worked out the underlying ideas of this report at the meeting, aided by prior discussions and their individual position statements. Ron Brachman presented a talk on strategic directions in AI to the workshop as a whole. The general structure of this report derives from his talk, augmented through many contributions by the preceding. The editors, of course, bear the responsibility for any flaws.