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                    Gita 
                      Sukthankar and Katia 
                      Sycara, "Identifying 
                      Physical Team Behaviors from Spatial Relationships," 
                      in Proceedings of 2005 Conference on Behavior Representation 
                      in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS), May 2005, 
                      just won a Recommended Reading List award at the BRIMS 
                      conference. Gita 
                      Sukthankar and Katia 
                      Sycara, "A 
                      Cost Minimization Approach to Human Behavior Recognition" 
                      in Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference 
                      on Autonomous Agents & Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 
                      2005), July 2005, is on the 'shortlist' 
                      for best student paper award. Yang 
                      Xu, Paul 
                      Scerri, Bin 
                      Yu, Steven Okamoto, Michael Lewis, and Katia 
                      Sycara, "Integrated 
                      Token-Based Algorithm for Scalable Coordination," is 
                      on the 'shortlist' 
                      for best overall paper award.RoboCup 
                      Rescue US Open, Atlanta, Ga., May 7-10, 2005 --At the 
                      RoboCup 
                      Rescue US Open, the Carnegie Mellon University and The University 
                      Pittsburgh Team RAPTOR won 1st place in the Advanced Mobility 
                      class, 1st place in the Advanced Autonomy class and 3rd 
                      place in the RoboRescue League. RAPTOR was the only team 
                      to enter robots in every round of the competition. The RAPTOR 
                      team fielded three 
                      robots, a Pioneer, a PER and a Tarantula, that coordinated 
                      to search and find victims in 3 arenas of increasing difficulty. 
                      Congratulations to Mary Koes, Anton Chechetka, and Robin 
                      Glinton.Katia 
                      Sycara was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Department 
                      of Computer Science and Communications Systems Engineering 
                      of the University of the 
                      Aegean. The Honorary Doctorate was given "in recognition 
                      of [Dr. Sycara's] outstanding scientific, academic and professional 
                      contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence."The 
                      inauguration ceremony took place May 10th, 2004 in Samos, 
                      Greece. "Modeling 
                      Physical Variability for Synthetic MOUT Agents," by 
                      Gita 
                      Sukthankar, Michael Mandel, Katia 
                      Sycara and Jessica Hodgins, was selected for the Recommended 
                      Reading List at the 13th Conference on Behavior Representation 
                      in Modeling and Simulaton (BRIMS).Katia 
                      Sycara was elected a Fellow of the American Association 
                      for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) for her "significant 
                      contributions to case-based reasoning, autonomous agents, 
                      and multi-agent systems." One of a small select group of 
                      individuals elected each year, Sycara was recognized at 
                      the Fellows Dinner on July 30, during AAAI 2002 in Edmonton, 
                      Alberta Canada.Katia 
                      Sycara of Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded 
                      the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2002. 
                      Dr. Sycara has made significant contributions to a number 
                      of subareas of agent research, including agent architectures, 
                      middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation.Katia 
                      Sycara has been named representative of the DAML Service 
                      Coalition to the WWW consortium (W3C) Working Group on Web 
                      Service Architecture.Semantic 
                      Web Challenge, the Semantic Web Working Symposium, Stanford 
                      University, Palo Alto, CA. July 2001. Winner: Rahul 
                      Singh, CMU Intelligent Software Agents Lab."Innovative 
                      Enterprise Decision Support System." Presented to the Office 
                      of Naval Research, our MURI sponsor, for Agent 
                      Storm.
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