The Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence - Previous Winners
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2022 | |
For high-impact contributions to scalable graph algorithms and their efficient implementation. | Guy Blelloch, Laxman Dhulipala, Julian Shun |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2021 | |
| For pioneering work in crowd-sourced technology to enable inclusive community mobility. | Aaron Steinfeld, Anthony Tomasic, John Zimmerman, Charlie Garrod, Yun Huang, Alex Haig, Oscar Romero Lopez, and the Tiramisu Team |
| For advancing the theory and practice of epidemic tracking and forecasting, and enabling national collaborative scientific response. | The Delphi Group: faculty, students, staff and volunteers |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2020 | |
| For pioneering fast, alignment-free inference of gene expression levels and the implementation and sharing of the Sailfish and Salmon tools that embody this technique. | Carl Kingsford, Stephen Mount, Robert Patro |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2019 | |
| For their pioneering contributions to the science of evaluating password strength, and for embodying this science in online tools that enable individuals and groups to more easily secure their systems. | Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, Lorrie Cranor, Saranga Komanduri, Michelle Mazurek, William Melicher, Sean Segreti, Rich Shay, Blase Ur |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2017 | |
| For their work in advancing artificial intelligence in hidden-information adversarial settings and demonstrating this via Libratus, the first poker program capable of defeating top human players. | Tuomas Sandholm, Noam Brown |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2016 | |
| For the development of software architecture as an organizing principle for large-scale systems, its influence on software practice, and its recent applications to cyberphysical systems and run-time failure analysis | David Garlan, Mary Shaw, Bradley Schmerl |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2015 | |
| For evidence-based design of online communities. | Robert E. Kraut, Aniket Kittur, Moira Burke, Yuqing Ren, Haiyi Zhu |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2014 | |
| For their pioneering work on advanced computer interfaces. | Scott Hudson, James Fogarty, Daniel Avrahami, Johnny Lee, Chris Harrison, Robert Xiao |
All Works Awarded Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence in 2013 | |
| For their research on socio-technical congruence. | James Herbsleb, Kathleen Carley, Marcelo Cataldo, Patrick Wagstrom |
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 Woszczyna |
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 and 1996. | ||
| This collection of works made significant contributions to speech recognition: | Search Architectures 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 | |