From: Sigrid Herzog <[log in to unmask]>

IJCAI-99 Awards

The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the Computers and Thought
Award are made by the IJCAII Board of Trustees, upon recommendation by
the IJCAI Awards Selection Committee, which consisted this year of

Daniel Bobrow (Palo Alto, USA)
C. Raymond Perrault (Palo Alto, USA)
Ross Quinlan (Sydney, Australia)
Erik Sandewall (Linkoeping, Sweden)
Wolfgang Wahlster (Saarbruecken, Germany, Chair)

The IJCAI Awards Selection Committee receives advice from members of the 
IJCAI
Awards Review Committee, who comment on the accuracy of the nomination
material and
provide additional information about the nominees.  The IJCAI Awards 
Review
Committee is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAII, the IJCAI-99 
Advisory
Committee, the Program Chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the 
past
recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI
Distinguished
Service Award, with nominees excluded.


IJCAI Award for Research Excellence

The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at the IJCAI
conference to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of
consistently high quality, yielding several substantial results. Past
recipients of this award are John McCarthy (1985), Allen Newell
(1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993), Herbert Simon
(1995), and Aravind Joshi (1997).

The winner of the 1999 IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is Judea
Pearl, Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University
of California Los Angeles, USA.  Professor Pearl is recognized for his
fundamental work on heuristic search, reasoning under uncertainty, and
causality. He will deliver a lecture entitled "Reasoning with Cause
and Effect" in the evening of August 5, 1999.


IJCAI 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 IJCAII 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), and Leslie Kaelbling (1997).

The winner of the 1999 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is Nicholas
R. Jennings, Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of
the Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London, UK.
Professor Jennings is recognized for his contributions to practical
agent architectures and his applied work in the field of multi-agent
systems. He will deliver a lecture entitled "Agent-Based Computing:
Promise and Perils" in the evening of August 3, 1999.



The Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award

The IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was established in 1979 by the
IJCAII Trustees to honor senior scientists in AI for contributions and
service to the field during their careers. Previous recipients have
been Bernard Meltzer (1979), Arthur Samuel (1983), Donald Walker
(1989), Woodrow Bledsow (1991) and Daniel G. Bobrow (1993). In 1994, the
IJCAI Distinguished Service Award was renamed the Donald E. Walker
Distinguished Service Award in memory of the late Donald E. Walker,
who shaped the IJCAII organization as a Secretary-Treasurer.

At IJCAI-99, the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award will be 
given to
Wolfgang Bibel, Professor for Intellectics at the Department of
Computer Science of the Darmstadt Institute of Technology in
Germany. As a pioneering researcher in automated deduction, Professor
Bibel is recognized for his outstanding contributions and service to
the international AI community including his creation of ECCAI, which
has operated since 1982 as an umbrella organization of 27 European
societies for Artificial Intelligence.


For more information about the winners please refer to the following 
homepages:

Professor Wolfgang Bibel:
http://kirmes.inferenzsysteme.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/~bibel/
Professor Nick Jennings: http://web.elec.qmw.ac.uk/staff/nrj.htm
Professor Judea Pearl: http://singapore.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html



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                    Prof.Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Wahlster
               Director of the German Research Center for AI


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