[agents] ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner 2011: Joe Halpern

[Wooldridge, Michael]

ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award Winner 2011: Joe Halpern 

The selection committee for the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research
Award is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2011 award is
Professor Joe Halpern of Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Professor Halpern is honoured for his substantial and enormously
influential contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent
systems, in particular, the computational foundations and applications
of epistemic logic and reasoning under uncertainty.

Professor Halpern will receive the award at the AAMAS-2011 conference
in Taiwan (http://www.aamas2011.tw/), where he will present a plenary
talk.

The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research award is made for excellence 
in research in the area of autonomous agents. It is intended to recognise 
researchers in autonomous agents whose current work is an important 
influence on the field. The award is an official ACM award, funded by 
an endowment created by ACM SIGART from the proceeds of previous 
Autonomous Agents conferences.

Previous winners of the ACM SIGART Autonomous Research Award were:
Jonathan Gratch and Stacy Marsella (2010), Manuela Veloso (2009), Yoav
Shoham (2008), Sarit Kraus (2007), Michael Wooldridge (2006), Milind
Tambe (2005), Makoto Yokoo (2004), Nicholas R. Jennings (2003), Katia
Sycara (2002), and Tuomas Sandholm (2001). For more information on the
award, see: http://sigart.acm.org/aaaward.htm.