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In part to advertise recent additions to their corpus, UMI often “broadcasts” abstracts of recent dissertations. More, considerable intellectual effort is added by selecting which dissertations go to which distribution lists. I first became aware of the AI thesis portion on AI-List a long-running and influential mailing list moderated by Ken Laws. Computists Laws valuable service is now available for a fee as the www.Computists.com online newsletter.. These were selected by Suzanne Humphries.