The IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award is a Technical Field Award established by the

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Board of Directors in 2004. This award is presented for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the design, practice, techniques, or theory in biologically and linguistically motivated computational paradigms and systems, including neural networks, connectionist systems, evolutionary computation, fuzzy systems, and hybrid intelligent systems in which these paradigms are contained. The award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients, or a team of up to three people. It is named for

Frank Rosenblatt Frank Rosenblatt (July 11, 1928July 11, 1971) was an American psychologist notable in the field of artificial intelligence. He is sometimes called the father of deep learning for his pioneering work on artificial neural networks. Life and career ...

, creator of the

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. Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

Recipients

* 2025: Yaochu Jin * 2024:

Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier is a retired French computer scientist specializing in fuzzy logic. She is a director of research, emeritus, for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the former head of the Department of Databases ...

* 2023: Marios Polycarpou * 2022:

Paul Werbos Paul John Werbos (born September 4, 1947) is an American social scientist and machine learning pioneer. He is best known for his 1974 dissertation, which first described the process of training artificial neural networks through backpropagation o ...

* 2021: James M. Keller * 2020: Xin Yao * 2019: Erkki Oja * 2018: Enrique H. Ruspini * 2017:

Stephen Grossberg Stephen Grossberg (born December 31, 1939) is a cognitive scientist, theoretical and computational psychologist, neuroscientist, mathematician, biomedical engineer, and neuromorphic technologist. He is the Wang Professor of Cognitive and Neural ...

* 2016: Ronald R. Yager * 2015:

Marco Dorigo Marco Dorigo (born 26 August 1961, in Milan, Italy) is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research and a co-director of ''IRIDIA'', the artificial intelligence lab of the Université libre de Bruxelles. He received a PhD in ...

* 2014: Geoffrey E. Hinton * 2013:

Terrence Sejnowski Terrence Joseph Sejnowski (; born 13 August 1947) is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretic ...

* 2012:

Vladimir Vapnik Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik (; born 6 December 1936) is a statistician, researcher, and academic. He is one of the main developers of the Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning and the co-inventor of the support-vector machine method ...

* 2011:

Hans-Paul Schwefel Hans-Paul Schwefel (born December 4, 1940) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at University of Dortmund (now Dortmund University of Technology), where he held the chair of systems analysis from 1985 until 2006. He is one of the ...

* 2010:

Michio Sugeno Michio (written: 道夫, 道雄, 道郎, 通夫 or 三知男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese shogi player *, Japanese dancer and choreographer *Michio Kaku (born 1947), American theoretical ph ...

* 2009: John J. Hopfield * 2008:

Teuvo Kohonen Teuvo Kalevi Kohonen (11 July 1934 – 13 December 2021) was a Finnish computer scientist. He was professor emeritus of the Academy of Finland.

* 2007: James C. Bezdek * 2006:

Lawrence J. Fogel Dr. Lawrence Jerome Fogel (March 2, 1928 – February 18, 2007) was a pioneer in evolutionary computation and human factors analysis. He is known as the inventor of active noise cancellation and the father of evolutionary programming. His scienti ...

References

External links

IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award page at IEEE Computational Intelligence SocietyList of IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award recipients
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