[agents] Inaugural ACM SIGAI Industry Award goes to team from Microsoft

[Das, Sanmay]

We are delighted to announce that the first ever ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence will be awarded to the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning Team from Microsoft! The award will be presented at IJCAI 2019. For more on the award and the team that received it, please see https://sigai.acm.org/awards/industry_award.html

SIGAI is excited to be able to contribute to recognizing real impacts of advanced AI in industry, and we are grateful to all those who sent in nominations, as well as to the distinguished members of our selection committee, chaired by David Stork.

The citation from the committee reads:
"The selection committee for the ACM SIGAI Industry Award for Excellence in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is pleased to announce that the Decision Service created by the Real World Reinforcement Learning Team from Microsoft, has been chosen as the winner of the inaugural 2019 award. The committee was impressed with the identification and development of cutting-edge research on contextual-bandit learning, the manifest cooperation between research and development efforts, the applicability of the decision support throughout the broad range of Microsoft products, and the quality of the final systems. All these aspects made the Microsoft team well worthy of this award."

Best regards,
Sanmay Das (SIGAI Vice-Chair)

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