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People / Achievements / The Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence

 

Award Description:

An outstanding body of work that epitomizes Allen Newell's research style as expressed in his words:

"Good science responds to real phenomena or real problems."

"Good science is in the details."

"Good science makes a difference."


 

 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2012
  For Energy-efficient Data Intensive Computing David Andersen, Michael Kaminsky, Jason Franklin,
Amar Phanishayee
  Elucidation of the Fundamental Principles of Human-Robot Interaction and its Associated Research Methods Jodi Forlizzi, Sara Kiesler,
Carl DiSalvo, Min Kyung Lee,
Bilge Mutlu, Cristen Torrey
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2011
  For their work on question-answering systems, including their significant contributions to IBM's Watson. Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura, Nico Schlaefer, Hideki Shima
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2005
  Creating at the National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC) a premier and successful model for delivering high impact, mobile robots to society. John Bares, Bill Ross,
David Stager, Chris Fromme
     
  Pioneering the use of techniques incorporating operations research algorithms with AI heuristics and search mechanisms in scheduling
problems.		 Steve Smith
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2004
  For Autonomous Robots and Human-Robot Interaction Reid Simmons
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2003
  Informedia Digital Video Library Howard Wactlar,
Alexander Hauptmann,
Michael Christel, Scott Steven,
Takeo Kanade
  Project LISTEN Jack Mostow, Gregory Aist
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2002
  Computer Music and Supporting Real-Time Systems Roger Dannenberg
  Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation Alan Black, Robert Frederking, Alon Lavie, Lori Levin,
Alexander Rudnicky, Tanja Schultz, Alexander Waibel,
Monika Woszczyn
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2001
  Surgical Navigation Technologies Anthony DiGioia, Branislav Jaramaz, Takeo Kanade
  Type-directed Compilation Robert W. Harper, Jr.,
Gregory Morrisett
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2000
  Cognitive Tutoring John R. Anderson
Kenneth R. Koedinger,
Albert T. Corbett
  Wearable Computers and Applications Daniel P. Siewiorek,
Asim Smailagic
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1999
  RAID Garth Gibson
  Symbolic Model Checking Randal R. Bryant, Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, Kenneth L. McMillan
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1998
  The Quake Project Hesheng Bao, Jacobo Bielak, Omar Ghattas, Thomas Gross, Loukas Kallivokas, David O'Hallaron, Jonathan Shewchuk, Jifeng Xu 
  RoboCup 1998 - Robot Soccer Michael Bowling, Will Uther 
     
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1997
  RoboCup 1997 - Robot Soccer Sorin Achim, Kwan Han, Peter Stone, Manuela Veloso
  The Rolf Schock Prize 1997 - Logic and Philosophy Dana Scott
  For Research Projects Coda and Odyssey Mahadev Satyanarayanan
  For Proof Carrying Code Peter Lee, George Necula
This collection of works made significant contributions to the development of autonomous robots : Vision-Based Helicopter Omead Amidi, Mark DeLouis, Takeo Kanade
NOMAD Atacama Desert Trek William Whittaker, Deepak Bapna, Mark Maimone, John Murphy, Eric Rollins, Mark Sibenac
DEMETER Agricultural Robot Kerien Fitzpatrick, Daniel Mark Ollis, Anthony Stentz
Automated Highway System Vehicles Todd Jochem, Dean Pomerleau, Charles Thorpe

This collection of works made significant contributions to the first computer victory over a human at the 1997 World Chess Championship:

NOTE: Earlier steps in this body of work are noted with (date).

 Deep Blue Defeated World Champion Garry Kasparov (1997) Murray Campbell, A. Joseph Hoane, Jr., Feng Hsu
Deep Thought, First Grandmaster Perf. (1997) Thomas Anantharaman, Michael Browne, Murray Campbell, Andreas Nowatzyk
Deep Thought, First Grandmaster Perf. (1988) Feng Hsu
First Senior Master (1988) Hans Berliner
Hitech, First Senior Master (1988) Murray Campbell, Carl Ebeling, Gordon Goetsch
Belle, First Master (1983) Joseph Condon, Ken Thompson
CHESS 4.7, First Class B, A, Expert (1970-78) Lawrence R. Atkin, David J. Slate
MacHack VI, First Class C (1967) Richard Greenblatt
     
NOTE: No awards were made between 1993-1996.
 
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 1992
This collection of works made significant contributions to speech recognition: Search Archiectures for SPHINX-II Fil Alleva
Dynamic Speech Architectures Robert Brennan
Leadership in Speech Recognition: SPHINX-II Xuedong Huang
Acoustic Modeling for SPHINX-II Mei-Yuh Hwang
Understand Spontaneous Speech: PHOENIX Sunil Issar, Wayne Ward
Robust Speech Recognition Fu-Hua Liu, Richard Stern
Language Modeling for SPHINX-II Ronald Rosenfeld
Real-time Speech Understanding Systems Eric Thayer

Database Support (and error analysis) for Speech

 

 Robert Weide