bundy%aiva.edinburgh.ac.uk@Cs.Ucl.AC.UK.UUCP (02/24/87)
THE 1987 COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD
It is my great pleasure to announce that the winner of the
1987 Computers and Thought Award is Johan de Kleer of Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center. The Award is in recognition of his fundamental
contributions to artificial intelligence research in the areas of:
qualitative reasoning, truth maintenance, constraint propagation and
explicit control of reasoning.
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 Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $2,000 plus
travel and subsistence expenses for the IJCAI. The Lecture is one
evening during the Conference, and the public is invited to attend.
The Lecturer is invited to publish the Lecture in the conference
proceedings. The Lectureship was established with royalties received
from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Feigenbaum and Feldman;
it is currently supported by income from IJCAI funds.
Nominations for The 1987 Computers and Thought Award were invited
from all in the artificial intelligence international community. The
award selection committee was the union of the Programme, Conference
and Advisory Committees of IJCAI-87 and the Board of Trustees of
IJCAII, with nominees excluded.
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)
and Hector Levesque (1985).
Alan Bundy
IJCAI-87 Conference Chair