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 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Prof.Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Wahlster Director of the German Research Center for AI DFKI GmbH email: [log in to unmask] Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3 fax: +49 681 302 5341 D-66123 Saarbruecken, Germany phone: +49 681 302 5252 homepage: http://www.dfki.de/~wahlster/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -------------------- Sigrid Herzog [log in to unmask] Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI) GmbH Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße (Bau 57), D-67663 Kaiserslautern Postfach 20 80, D-67608 Kaiserslautern Telefon: +49 (0) 631 205-3213 205-3211 Telefax: +49 (0) 631 205-3453 205-3210 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%