PERSEUS: Personalized Multimedia News Portal (Cover letter) Manuscript authors: Victor Kulesh (principal author) Center for Strategic Technology Research, Accenture 3773 Willow Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062, USA Phone: (847) 714-4259 Fax: (847) 714-5849 vkulesh@cstar.accenture.com Valery A. Petrushin Center for Strategic Technology Research, Accenture 3773 Willow Rd., Northbrook, IL 60062, USA Phone: (847) 714-3969 Fax: (847) 714-5849 petr@cstar.accenture.com Ishwar K. Sethi Intelligent Information Engineering Laboratory Department of Computer Science and Engineering Oakland University 160 Dodge Hall, Rochester, MI 48309, USA Phone: (248) 370-2820 Fax: (248) 370-4625 isethi@oakland.edu This is to confirm that if the paper is accepted to the AIA 2001 Conference one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. May 10, 2001