Many congratulations to Joseph Devereux who, subject to minor corrections, today successfully defended his thesis entitled, Strategies for Persuasion in Inter-Agent Dialogue. He was examined by Francesca Toni (Imperial) and Ekaterina Komendantskaya (Dundee).

The Eleventh Annual Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument will be with AAAI in San Francisco this August. The Call for Papers is available on the CMNA website, www.cmna.info. The deadlines for submissions are 22 April (for long papers) and 1 May (for short papers). CMNA 2011 should be another productive and enjoyable event in the CMNA series.