Greetings: I am looking forward to seeing as many of you as can make it at the upcoming AoIR 2003 conference in Toronto, our fourth annual conference. The quality of papers and presentations promises to be outstanding, and I am grateful to Matt Allen, our program chair, and the numerous reviewers who looked over the many paper and panel submissions this year. As most of you know this will be my final conference as AoIR president, and it has been a privilege and an honor to oversee four of the best conferences I have ever attended. I will look forward to participating in future ones as a member! As has been the case the past three years I am nearly overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the program, and cannot wait to begin the meeting. A great deal of effort has gone into the planning of the conference, and much has particularly been contributed by Liss Jeffrey and volunteers and colleagues in Toronto. Should you have any questions or concerns, or need advice of any kind, please email the conference coordinators, they are AoIR's "go to" people on-site: Rhiannon Bury rbury@wlu.ca Catherine Middleton cmiddlet@ryerson.ca Olivia Robertson olivia.robertson@utoronto.ca I am sure they will be more than happy to help, and they have already been a tremendous help with conference arrangements, as have been numerous volunteers in Toronto (and vicinity) and in AoIR. Please also keep an eye on the official website for the conference - http://www.aoir.org/2003 - which will be progressively updated over the next few days, including links to the program. See you soon, Steve Jones President, Association of Internet Researchers Sj