From perrault@agate.ai.sri.com Thu Oct 13 21:08:13 EDT 1994 Article: 24572 of comp.ai Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!xn.ll.mit.edu!hsdndev!unix.sri.com!unix.sri.com!perrault From: perrault@agate.ai.sri.com (C. Raymond Perrault) Newsgroups: comp.ai Subject: IJCAI-95 Call for Nominations for Awards Date: 7 Oct 94 17:31:07 Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 109 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: agate.ai.sri.com INTERNATIONAL JOINT CONFERENCES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, INC. *** Call for Nominations for IJCAI-95 Awards *** 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), Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), and Ray Reiter (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The recipient 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 Artificial Intelligence. We hereby call for nominations for The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. THE COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT AWARD The Computers and Thought Lectures are presented at IJCAI conferences by outstanding young scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence. 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), Henry Kautz (1989), Rodney Brooks (1991), Martha Pollack (1991), and Hiroaki Kitano (1993). The Award carries with it a certificate and the sum of US$ 2,000 plus travel and living expenses for the IJCAI. The lecture is given one evening during the conference, and the public is invited to attend. The lecturer is encouraged to publish the lecture in the conference proceedings. The lectureship was established with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought, edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman; it is currently supported by income from IJCAII funds. We hereby call for nominations for the Computers and Thought Award, which will be presented at IJCAI-95 in Montreal, Canada, 20 August - 25 August 1995. The accompanying note on Selection Procedures provides the relevant details. SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR IJCAI AWARDS Nominations for the IJCAI Research Excellence Award and the Computers and Thought Award are invited from everyone in the international Artificial Intelligence community. There should be a nominator and a seconder, at least one of whom must not be from the same institution as the nominee. Nominees for the Computers and Thought Award cannot be older than 35 at the start of the conference. There are no other restrictions on nominees, nominators or seconders. Nominating and seconding statements for an award should be submitted on the Nomination and Reference Forms for the award. The forms are available via http, gopher, or anonymous FTP at the following addresses, or directly from the Conference Chair at the address below. http://ijcai.org/awards/forms.txt gopher://ijcai.org/0/awards/forms ftp://ijcai.org/pub/ijcai/awards/forms An IJCAI Awards Committee has been established to encourage high quality nominations for IJCAI Awards and to propose winners to the Board of Trustees. It consists of five members: the three most recent past IJCAI conference chairs (Wolfgang Bibel (convenor), Barbara Grosz and Wolfgang Wahlster), and two senior members of the AI community. The IJCAI Awards Committee will be advised by the IJCAI Award Review Committee, which is the union of the former Trustees of IJCAII, the Advisory Committee of IJCAI-95, the program chairs of the last three IJCAI conferences, and the past recipients of the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence and the IJCAI Distinguished Service Award, with nominees excluded. Nominations should be sent to the Conference Chair for IJCAI-95 at the address below. The deadline for nominations is 25 November 1994. To avoid duplication of effort, nominators are requested to submit the name of the person they are nominating by 1 November 1994 so that people who propose to nominate the same individual may be so informed and can coordinate their efforts. C. Raymond Perrault Conference Chair, IJCAI-95 Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025 Phone: (415) 859-6470 Fax: (415) 859-3735 email: perrault@ai.sri.com