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From: walker@flash.bellcore.com (Don Walker)
To: mod-ki@unido.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 91 17:27:40 -0500
Subject: <mod-ki 0647> IJCAI-91 Awards announcement
Keywords: IJCAI-91, Awards

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IJCAI-91, the  Twelfth  International  Joint  Conference  on  Artificial
Intelligence, will be held in Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991.  The
Board of Trustees of IJCAI, Inc. is pleased to announce  the  recipients
of the IJCAI awards for Research Excellence, Computers and  Thought, and
Distinguished Service.

THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE
The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given,  at  an  International
Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,  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) and Allen Newell (1989).

The Research Excellence Award for  IJCAI-91  will  be  given  to  Marvin
Minsky, MIT.

THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
The Computers and Thought Lecture is given at each  International  Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence by an outstanding young  scientist
in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The Lecture  is  presented  one
evening during the Conference, and the public is invited to attend.  The
Lectureship 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 honour 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) and Henry Kautz (1989).

Two Computers and Thought Awards will be given  at  IJCAI-91  to  Rodney
Brooks, MIT and Martha Pollack, SRI International.

IJCAI 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),  and Donald Walker (1989).

At IJCAI-91, the IJCAI Distinguished Service  Award  will  be  given  to
Woodrow Bledsoe, University of Texas at Austin.
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