The ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be given annually to individuals or teams who transferred original academic research into AI applications in recent years in ways that demonstrate the power of AI techniques via a combination of the following features: originality of research work, novelty and technical excellence of the approach, importance of AI techniques for the approach, and actual and predicted societal impact of the application. The award plaque is accompanied by a prize of $5,000, and will be awarded at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence through an agreement with the IJCAI Board of Trustees.
After decades of progress in the theory of AI, research and development, AI applications are now increasingly moving into the commercial sector. A great deal of pioneering application-level work is being done when transferring research works into industry—from startups to large corporations—and these are influencing commerce and the broad public in a wide variety of ways. This award complements the numerous academic, best paper and related awards, in that it focuses on innovators of* fielded AI applications*, especially honoring those who are not only active in the academic community but also playing key roles in AI commercialization. The award honors these innovators and highlights their achievements (and thus also the benefit of AI techniques) to computing professionals and the public at large. The award committee will consider applications that are open source or proprietary and that may or may not involve hardware. Evaluation criteria: The criteria include the following, but there is no fixed weighting of them: - Novelty of application area - Novelty and technical excellence of the approach - Importance of AI techniques for the approach - Actual and predicted societal benefits of the fielded application Eligibility criteria: Any individual or team, worldwide, is eligible for the award. *Nomination procedure:* One nomination and three endorsements must be submitted. The nomination must identify the individual or team members, describe their fielded AI system, and explain how it addresses the award criteria. The nomination must be written by a member of ACM SIGAI. Two of the endorsements must be from members of ACM or ACM SIGAI. Please submit the nomination and endorsements as a single PDF file in an email to sigaiindustryaw...@acm.org <sigaiindustryaw...@acm.org>. We will acknowledge receipt of the nomination. *Timeline:* *Nominations Due: *March 1, 2019 *Award Announcement: *April 25, 2019 *Award Presentation: *Aug 10-16, 2019, at IJCAI, in Macao, China
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