bundy%edxa@sri-unix.UUCP (06/14/83)
From: BUNDY HPS (on ERCC DEC-10) <bundy@edxa>
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IJCAI-83
SPRINGER-VERLAG PRIZE FOR SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION
I am please to announce that the paper, "Scale-Space Filtering", by
Andy Witkin of Fairchild Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory,
has been awarded the Springer-Verlag prize for Symbolic Computation.
The prize will be presented at the Eighth International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Karlsruhe, West
Germany, from 8th to 12th August 1983.
The Symbolic Computation Prize has recently been announced by
Springer-Verlag, as a sign of their interest in Artificial
Intelligence and in the work of the scientists active in this field.
It is named after their new book series on Artificial Intelligence and
Computer Graphics, and is awarded, by the programme committee, to the
best paper contributed to the IJCAI conference. The prize is $500.
The IJCAI-83 programme committee has interpreted its brief as being to
select the paper which best meets the following criteria.
(a) It reports a significant and original piece of research of direct
relevance to Artificial Intelligence.
(b) This research serves as a model for how Artificial Intelligence
research should be conducted.
(c) The paper is well presented for a specialist reader.
Witkin's paper is clearly presented and is intelligible to a
non-specialist reader, without sacrificing technical validity and
clarity. It describes a new approach to perceptual organization, and
an implementation with satisfying performance.
Among the other papers submitted to IJCAI-83 and considered for the
Symbolic Computation Prize, the programme committee would like to give
an honourable mention to "Completeness of the Negation as Failure
Rule", by Joxan Jaffar, Jean-Louis Lassez and John Lloyd of the
University of Melbourne.
Alan Bundy
Programme Chairman, IJCAI-83