IJCAI-2023 Award Nominations

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Feb 27, 2023, 12:48:54 PM2/27/23
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IJCAI calls for nominations for its 2023 awards. These awards include 
the Computer and Thought Award, the John McCarthy Award, and the 
Research Excellence Award. The 2023 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 and letters of support must be submitted as a single PDF 
file. The name of the file must include the last name of the nominee. 
The deadline for submissions is == April 15, 2023 ==. Nominations 
received after the due date will not be considered. 

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). 

Computers and Thought nomination form:  https://forms.gle/bHPsgK7QMuSWxVx56 

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, illness of the nominee or close family 
members, or other exceptional circumstances. 

John McCarthy nomination form: https://forms.gle/X7kbJGUj4ijHWTF59 

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established 
mid-career researchers, typically between 15 to 25 years after 
obtaining their Ph.D., that have built up a major track record of 
research excellence in Artificial Intelligence, with significant 
contributions to research agenda in area and have a first-rate profile 
of influential research results. 

Research Excellence nomination form: https://forms.gle/RGbJwZjkQPF3RNKU7 

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. 


Informal inquiries or requests for clarification should be sent to the 
chair of the IJCAI-2023 awards committee: Maria Gini <gi...@umn.edu
(subject line: "IJCAI 2023 Awards"). 


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), and Bo Li (2022). 

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),and Tuomas Sandholm (2021), and 
Michael L. Littman (2022). 

Past recipients of the Award for Research Excellence: 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), and 
Stuart Russell (2022). 

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