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The call for IJCAI-09 Awards will be posted here in early 2008. IJCAI-07 AwardsThe IJCAI-07 Award for Research Excellence and the Computers and Thought Award are awarded by the IJCAI Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by the IJCAI-07 Awards Selection Committee, which consists this year of : Ruzena Bajcsy, University of California at Berkeley (USA) Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds (UK) Malik Ghallab, LAAS-CNRS (France) Hector Levesque, University of Toronto (Chair), and Martha Pollack, University of Michigan (USA). The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice from members of the IJCAI-07 Awards Review Committee, who comment on the accuracy of the nomination material and provide additional information about the nominees. The IJCAI-07 Awards Review Committee is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAI, the IJCAI-07 Advisory Committee, the Program Chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. IJCAI-07 Award for Research ExcellenceThe Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field of Artificial Intelligence; They are: John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon (1995), Aravind Joshi (1997), Judea Pearl (1999), Donald Michie (2001), Nils Nilsson (2003), and Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005). The winner of the 2007 Award for Research Excellence is Alan Bundy, Professor of Automated Reasoning at the School of Informatics, in the University of Edinburgh. Professor Bundy is recognized for both his seminal work in the area of automated reasoning, and his wider contributions to Artificial Intelligence. In particular, he has pioneered the use of meta-level reasoning, proof planning, and has developed novel methods for automated reasoning in areas such as diagrammatic reasoning and concept formation.
IJCAI-07 Computers and Thought AwardThe Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award was established with royalties received from the book, Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds. Past recipients of this honor have been: Terry Winograd (1971), Patrick Winston (1973), Chuck Rieger (1975), Douglas Lenat (1977), David Marr (1979), Gerald Sussman (1981), Tom Mitchell (1983), Hector Levesque (1985), Johan de Kleer (1987), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), Hiroaki Kitano (1993), Sarit Kraus (1995), Stuart Russell (1995), Leslie Kaelbling (1997), Nicholas Jennings (1999), Daphne Koller (2001), and Tuomas Sandholm (2003). The winner of the 2007 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is Peter Stone, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor Stone is recognized for his contributions to machine learning in multi-agent systems, particularly in collaborative and adversarial dynamic environments.
Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service AwardThe IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the IJCAI Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have been: Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald Walker (1989), Woodrow Bledsoe (1991), Daniel G. Bobrow (1993), Wolfgang Bibel (1999), Barbara Grosz (2001), Alan Bundy (2003), and Raj Reddy (2005). At IJCAI-07, the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award will be given to Ronald J. Brachman, VP of Worldwide Research Operations at Yahoo! Research. Dr. Brachman is recognized for his substantial contributions and extensive service to the field of Artificial Intelligence throughout his career. |
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