kim@CS.TORONTO.EDU (Kimberlee Pietrzak-Smith) (08/09/90)
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR IJCAI AWARDS: IJCAI-91 THE IJCAI AWARD FOR RESEARCH EXCELLENCE The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is given at an IJCAI, to a scientist who has carried out a program of research of consistently high quality yielding several substantial results. If the research program has been carried out collaboratively, the Award may be made jointly to the research team. Past recipients of this Award are John McCarthy (1985) and Allen Newell (1989). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $US2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The researcher(s) will be invited to deliver an address on the nature and significance of the results achieved and write a paper for the conference proceedings. Primarily, however, the Award carries the honour of having one's work selected by one's peers as an exemplar of sustained research in the maturing science of Artificial Intelligence. We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence to be made at IJCAI-91 which is to be held in Sydney, Australia, 24-30 August 1991. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards provides the relevant details. 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 Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of $US2,000 plus travel and subsistence expenses for the IJCAI. The Lecture is presented 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. 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). Nominations are invited for The Computers and Thought Award to be made at IJCAI-91 in Sydney. The note on Selection Procedures for IJCAI Awards describes the nomination procedures to be followed. SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS Nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and The Computers and Thought Award are invited from all members of the Artificial Intelligence international community. The procedures are the same for both awards. There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom should not have been in the same institution as the nominee. The nominators should prepare a short submission of less than 2,000 words, outlining the nominee's qualifications with respect to the criteria for the particular award. The award selection committee is the union of the Program, Conference and Advisory Committees of the upcoming IJCAI and the Board of Trustees of International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, Inc., with nominees excluded. Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-91 at the address below. They must be sent in hardcopy form; electronic submissions cannot be accepted. The deadline for nominations is 1 December 1990. To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1990 so that people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed and can coordinate their efforts. Prof. Barbara J. Grosz Conference Chair, IJCAI-91 Aiken Computation Lab 20 Harvard University 33 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138, USA tel: (+1-617) 495-3673 fax: (+1-617) 495-9837 grosz@endor.harvard.edu Due Date for nominations: 1 December 1990.