Deadline for nominations: Monday, January 7, 2019
The IJCAI Awards Committee hereby invites nominations for the
IJCAI-19 awards: The Award for Research Excellence; the Computers and
Thought Award; and the John McCarthy Award.
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IJCAI-19 AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
The Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried
out a program of AI research of consistently high quality throughout
an entire career yielding several substantial results. Past recipients
of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the
field of Artificial Intelligence.
Past recipients of the award 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), Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005), Alan Bundy
(2007), Victor Lesser (2009), Robert Anthony Kowalski (2011), Hector
Levesque (2013), Barbara Grosz (2015), Michael I. Jordan (2016),
Andrew Barto (2017), and Jitendra Malik (2018).
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IJCAI-19 COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
The 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.
Please note: Nominees for the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award should
be no older than 35 at the start of the IJCAI-19 conference
(appropriate exceptions will be made for parenting leave, etc - please
indicate such circumstances in the nomination letter).
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), Tuomas Sandholm (2003), Peter
Stone (2007), Carlos Guestrin (2009), Andrew Ng (2009),Vincent
Conitzer (2011), Malte Helmert (2011), Kristen Grauman (2013), Ariel
Procaccia (2015), Percy Liang (2016), Devi Parikh (2017), and Stefano
Ermon (2018).
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IJCAI-19 JOHN McCARTHY AWARD
The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established
mid-career researchers, typically between fifteen to twenty-five years
after obtaining their PhD, that have built up a major track record of
research excellence in artificial intelligence. Nominees of the award
will have made significant contributions to the research agenda in
their area and will have a first-rate profile of influential research
results.
The award is named for John McCarthy (1927-2011), who is widely
recognized as one of the founders of the field of artificial
intelligence. As well as giving the discipline its name, McCarthy made
fundamental contributions of lasting importance to computer science in
general and artificial intelligence in particular, including
time-sharing operating systems, the LISP programming languages,
knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, and the logicist
paradigm in artificial intelligence. The award was established with
the full support and encouragement of the McCarthy family.
Past recipients of this honor have been: Bart Selman (2015), Moshe
Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), and Milind Tambe (2018).
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NOMINATIONS
Nominations for IJCAI awards may be made by any member of the AI
community. Nominations should take the form of a **single** PDF
document, uploaded to the relevant nomination web site (see
below). The nomination should on the first page clearly state the name
of the candidate being nominated, their email address and website (if
available), and the name and contact details of the nomination
coordinator. The nomination should contain a statement (no more than
2000 words) clearly setting out why the nominee is deserving of the
award. The nomination should also contain letters of support from up
to 3 supporters from the AI community, who should also clearly state
why they believe the nominee is deserving of the award (each
supporting statement should be no more than 1000 words, and should
identify the supporter).
Websites for uploading nominations:
Research excellence nomination site:
https://goo.gl/forms/DVDUIpi2HQUQqoOv2
Computers and Thought nomination site:
https://goo.gl/forms/u5jRnaFG7cjiV14y2
John McCarthy nomination site:
https://goo.gl/forms/5ualkTiTzalrk5d93
Nominations must be uploaded no later than:
***MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2019**
Nominations received after this deadline will not be considered.
Informal enquiries or points for clarification may be sent to the
chair of the awards committee: Michael Wooldridge
<[email protected]>.
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Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Secretary
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