IJCAI-97 Award Winners
Ray Perrault
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
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The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given to "a scientist who has
carried out a program of research of consistently high quality, yielding
several substantial results."
The winner of the 1997 IJCAI Research Excellence Award is Aravind K. Joshi,
Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Professor of
Linguistics, and Co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive
Science at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadephia, Pennsylvania,
USA. Professor Joshi has made fundamental contributions to computational
linguistics and natural language processing. As the inventor of
tree-adjoining grammars (TAG), he has been at the forefront of the
investigation of computationally tractable syntactic formalisms with
greater power than context-free grammars. He contributed significantly
to computational research on discourse and has been a leader in the
establishment of research and educational establishments in support of
interdisciplinary research in AI and cognitive science in the US and India.
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
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The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is given to an outstanding young
scientist in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
The winner of the 1997 Computers and Thought Award is Leslie P. Kaelbling,
Associate Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, in Providence,
Rhode Island, USA, for her contributions to the semantic theory of
information in embedded systems, to the development of programming tools
for mobile robots, for algorithmic advances in the solution of partially
observable Markov decision processes, and for her application of
reinforcement learning methods to intelligent embedded control.
She is the author of one book, "Learning in Embedded Systems" and the
editor of another. She is the recipient of the National Science Foundation
National Young Investigator Award and of the National Science Foundation
Presidential Faculty Fellowship.
The IJCAI Awards
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The IJCAI awards are made by the IJCAI Board of Trustees, upon
recommendation by the IJCAI Awards Committee, which consisted this year of
Daniel Bobrow (Palo Alto), Barbara Grosz (Cambridge, Mass, Chair),
Hirochika Inoue (Tokyo), Ross Quinlan (Sydney) and Wolfgang Wahlster
(Saarbrucken). Each winner will receive a $2,000 prize and deliver an
invited lecture at IJCAI-97, to be held August 23-27, 1997, in Nagoya,
Japan. Further information about IJCAI-97 can be found on the World-Wide
Web at http://ijcai.org/ijcai-97/, or by email at rasm...@ijcai.org.
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