The winner of the Year 2000 Outstanding Student Paper Award sponsored by
Athene Software is:
Lehel Csato
from the Neural Computing Research Group
in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (UK)
for his paper
Sparse Representation for Gaussian Process Models
which is co-authored by Manfred Opper
The following two papers received honorable mention:
Martijn Leisink
from the Department of Biophysics
University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
for his paper
A tighter bound for graphical models
which is co-authored with H.J. Kappen
Brian Sallans
from the Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
for his paper
Using Free Energies to Represent Q-values in a Multiagent Reinforcement
Learning Task
which is co-authored by Geoffrey E. Hinton
The NIPS program committee seeks to reward outstanding scientific excellence
with this new award. The awards have been selected from a large pool of
nominated papers. The award requires that the research is predominately carried
out by a person who was a full-time student at the time of the paper submission
deadline.
All awards are sponsored by Athene Software,
which is gratefully acknowledged.
Athene Software also provided financial
support for student travel support,
which is awarded separately.
We have attempted to ensure that all information is correct, but we cannot
guarantee it.