[PlanetKR] [Announcements] 2024 IJCAI Awards: Call for Nominations

Wed Feb 28 15:54:34 UTC 2024

IJCAI calls for nominations for its 2024 awards. These awards include
the Computer and Thought Award, the John McCarthy Award, and the
Research Excellence Award. The 2024 IJCAI Award Committee Chair is
Christian Bessiere, CNRS, University of Montpellier, France.

Nominations for IJCAI awards may be made by any member of the AI
community.

Nominations and letters of support must be submitted as a single PDF
file sent to bessiere at lirmm.fr. The subject line must include the
category (Computer and Thought/John McCarthy/Research Excellence) and
the name of the nominee.
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2024.

The first page of the nomination file should state the name of the
candidate being nominated, their email address and website (if
available), and the name and contact details of the nominator. The
nomination should contain a statement (no more than 2000 words)
clearly specifying why the nominee is deserving of the award. The
nomination should 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).

Computers and Thought Award

The Computers and Thought Award is presented to outstanding young
scientists in Artificial Intelligence.  Nominees for the IJCAI
Computers and Thought Award should have received their PhD within the
last 7 years at the date of the IJCAI conference.  The eligibility
period can be extended beyond 7 years for the following properly
documented circumstances occurring after the Ph.D. defense: parenting
leave, national service, or other exceptional circumstances.

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, who 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.

Research Excellence Award

The Research Excellence Award is given to a scientist who has carried
out a program of research of consistently high quality throughout an
entire career yielding several substantial results. The recipient is
expected to have served as mentor and role model in their field. Past
recipients of this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists
from the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Past recipients of the Computers and Thought Award: 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),
Stefano Ermon (2018), Guy Van den Broeck (2019), Piotr Skowron (2020),
Fei Fang (2021), Bo Li (2022), and Pin-Yu Chen (2023).

Past recipients of the John McCarthy Award: Bart Selman (2015), Moshe
Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), Milind Tambe (2018), Pedro
Domingos (2019), Daniela Rus (2020), Tuomas Sandholm (2021), Michael
L. Littman (2022), and Dieter Fox (2023).

Past recipients of the Research Excellence Award: John McCarthy
(1985), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter
(1993), Herbert Simo(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), Jitendra Malik (2018), Yoav
Shoham (2019), Eugene Charles Freuder (2020), Richard Sutton (2021),
Stuart Russell (2022), and Sarit Kraus (2023).

Informal inquiries or requests for clarification should be sent to
Christian Bessiere <bessiere at lirmm.fr> (subject line: "2024 IJCAI
Awards").

Information on the awards is at https://www.ijcai.org/awards

-- 
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

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