[agents] [Announcements] IJCAI-22 Awards: Call for Nominations

Fri Feb 18 10:31:23 EST 2022

IJCAI calls for nominations for its 2022 awards. These awards include 
the Computer and Thought Award, the John McCarthy Award, and the 
Research Excellence Award. The 2022 IJCAI Award Committee Chair is 
Professor Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA.

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 website (see below). The 
nomination on the first page 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).

Nominations must be uploaded no later than March 21, 2022 at the 
relevant nomination web site:

Computers and Thought nomination site:  
https://forms.gle/r8nB7NQyFq3D6kTC6

John McCarthy nomination site: https://forms.gle/GbWMsfJwKn44QeAx9

Research Excellence nomination site: https://forms.gle/vjHBQ5zsyEtLAUP6A

Nominations received after this date will not be considered. Informal 
enquiries or requests for clarification should be sent to the chair of 
the IJCAI-2022 awards committee: Maria Gini <gini at umn.edu> (subject 
line: "IJCAI 2022 Awards").

Details on the awards and previous winners

IJCAI-22 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. 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), Guy Van den Broeck (2019), Piotr Skowron 
(2020) and Fei Fang (2021).

IJCAI-22 John McCarthy Award

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established 
mid-career researchers, typically between 15 to 25 five years after 
obtaining their Ph.D., 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 after 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), Milind Tambe (2018), Pedro Domingos (2019), Daniela Rus 
(2020) and Tuomas Sandholm (2021).

IJCAI-22 Award for Research Excellence

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. Past recipients of 
this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field 
of Artificial Intelligence.  Past recipients are 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) and Jitendra Malik (2018), Yoav Shoham (2019), 
Eugene Charles Freuder (2020) and Richard Sutton (2021).

Information available at https://www.ijcai.org/awards

-- 
Vesna Sabljakovic-Fritz
IJCAI Executive Director and Secretary

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