The IJCAI Computers and Thought Award is presented every two years by the
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), recognizing outstanding young scientists in
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...
. It was originally funded with royalties received from the book ''Computers and Thought'' (edited by
Edward Feigenbaum
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems."
Education and early life ...
and Julian Feldman), and is currently funded by IJCAI.
It is considered to be "the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35".
Laureates
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Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intel ...
(1971)
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Patrick Winston
Patrick Henry Winston (February 5, 1943 – July 19, 2019) was an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Winston was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, succ ...
(1973)
*Chuck Rieger (1975)
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Douglas Lenat
Douglas Bruce Lenat (born 1950) is the CEO of Cycorp, Inc. of Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in artificial intelligence; he was awarded the biannual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1976 for creating the machine learning p ...
(1977)
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David Marr (1979)
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Gerald Sussman
Gerald Jay Sussman (born February 8, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his S.B. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. H ...
(1981)
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Tom Mitchell (1983)
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Hector Levesque
Hector Joseph Levesque (born 1951) is a Canadian academic and researcher in artificial intelligence. His research concerns incorporating commonsense reasoning in intelligent systems and he initiated the Winograd Schemas Challenge.
Education
He r ...
(1985)
*Johan de Kleer (1987)
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Henry Kautz (1989)
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Rodney Brooks
Rodney Allen Brooks (born 30 December 1954) is an Australian roboticist, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, author, and robotics entrepreneur, most known for popularizing the actionist approach to robotics. He was a Panasonic Profes ...
(1991)
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Martha E. Pollack (1991)
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Hiroaki Kitano
is a Japanese scientist. He is the head of th Systems Biology Institute(SBI); President and CEO of Sony Computer Science Laboratories; a Group Director of the Laboratory for Disease Systems Modeling at and RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical ...
(1993)
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Sarit Kraus (1995)
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Stuart Russell (1995)
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Leslie Kaelbling (1997)
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Nicholas Jennings (1999)
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Daphne Koller
Daphne Koller ( he, דפנה קולר; born August 27, 1968) is an Israeli-American computer scientist. She was a professor in the department of computer science at Stanford University and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship recipient. She is one ...
(2001)
*Tuomas Sandholm (2003)
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Peter Stone (2007)
*Carlos Guestrin (2009)
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Andrew Ng
Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (; born 1976) is a British-born American computer scientist and technology entrepreneur focusing on machine learning and AI. Ng was a co-founder and head of Google Brain and was the former Chief Scientist at Baidu, building ...
(2009)
*Vincent Conitzer (2011)
*Malte Helmert (2011)
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Kristen Grauman (2013)
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Ariel D. Procaccia (2015)
*Percy Liang (2016) ''for his contributions to both the approach of semantic parsing for natural language understanding and better methods for learning latent-variable models, sometimes with weak supervision, in machine learning.''
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Devi Parikh (2017)
*Stefano Ermon (2018)
*Guy Van den Broeck (2019) ''for his contributions to statistical and relational artificial intelligence, and the study of tractability in learning and reasoning.''
*Piotr Skowron (2020) ''for his contributions to computational social choice, and to the theory of committee elections.''
*Fei Fang (2021) ''for her contributions to integrating machine learning with game theory and the use of these novel techniques to tackle societal challenges such as more effective deployment of security resources, enhancing environmental sustainability, and reducing food insecurity.''
*Bo Li (2022) ''for her contributions to uncovering the underlying connections among robustness, privacy, and generalization in AI, showing how different models are vulnerable to malicious attacks, and how to eliminate these vulnerabilities using mathematical tools that provide robustness guarantees for learning models and privacy protection.''
See also
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List of computer science awards
References
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