[agents] IJCAI-22 Awards: Call for Nominations

[Maria Gini]

IJCAI calls for nominations for its 2022 awards. These awards include
the Computer and Thought Award, the John McCarthy Award, and the
Research Excellence Award. The 2022 IJCAI Award Committee Chair is
Professor Maria Gini, University of Minnesota, USA.

Nominations for IJCAI awards may be made by any member of the AI
community.  Nominations should take the form of a **single** PDF
document, uploaded to the relevant nomination website (see below). The
nomination on the first page should state the name of the candidate
being nominated, their email address and website (if available), and
the name and contact details of the nominator. The nomination should
contain a statement (no more than 2000 words) clearly specifying why
the nominee is deserving of the award.  The nomination should contain
letters of support from up to 3 supporters from the AI community, who
should also clearly state why they believe the nominee is deserving of
the award (each supporting statement should be no more than 1000 words
and should identify the supporter).

Nominations must be uploaded no later than March 21, 2022 at the
relevant nomination web site:

Computers and Thought nomination site:  https://forms.gle/r8nB7NQyFq3D6kTC6

Please note that nominees for the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
should be no older than 35 at the start of the IJCAI-2022 conference
(appropriate exceptions will be made for parenting leave, etc - please
indicate such circumstances in the nomination letter)

John McCarthy nomination site: https://forms.gle/GbWMsfJwKn44QeAx9

Research Excellence nomination site: https://forms.gle/vjHBQ5zsyEtLAUP6A

Nominations received after this date will not be considered. Informal
enquiries or requests for clarification should be sent to the chair of
the IJCAI-2022 awards committee: Maria Gini <gini at umn.edu> (subject
line: "IJCAI 2022 Awards").

Details on the awards and previous winners

The Computers and Thought Award is presented at IJCAI conferences to
outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence. The award 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 IJCAI funds. Past recipients of
this honor 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), Hiroaki Kitano (1993), Sarit Kraus (1995), Stuart Russell
(1995), Leslie Kaelbling (1997), Nicholas Jennings (1999), Daphne
Koller (2001), Tuomas Sandholm (2003), Peter Stone (2007), Carlos
Guestrin (2009), Andrew Ng (2009), Vincent Conitzer (2011), Malte
Helmert (2011), Kristen Grauman (2013), Ariel Procaccia (2015), Percy
Liang (2016), Devi Parikh (2017) and Stefano Ermon (2018), Guy Van den
Broeck (2019), Piotr Skowron (2020), and Fei Fang (2021).

IJCAI-22 John McCarthy Award

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established
mid-career researchers, typically between 15 to 25 five years after
obtaining their Ph.D., that have built up a major track record of
research excellence in artificial intelligence. Nominees of the award
will have made significant contributions to the research agenda in
their area and will have a first-rate profile of influential research
results. The award is named after John McCarthy (1927-2011), who is
widely recognized as one of the founders of the field of artificial
intelligence. As well as giving the discipline its name, McCarthy made
fundamental contributions of lasting importance to computer science in
general and artificial intelligence in particular, including
time-sharing operating systems, the LISP programming languages,
knowledge representation, common-sense reasoning, and the logicist
paradigm in artificial intelligence.  The award was established with
the full support and encouragement of the McCarthy family. Past
recipients of this honor have been: Bart Selman (2015), Moshe
Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), Milind Tambe (2018), Pedro
Domingos (2019), Daniela Rus (2020), and Tuomas Sandholm (2021).

IJCAI-22 Award for Research Excellence

The Research Excellence award is given to a scientist who has carried
out a program of research of consistently high quality throughout an
entire career yielding several substantial results. Past recipients of
this honor are the most illustrious group of scientists from the field
of Artificial Intelligence.  Past recipients are John McCarthy (1985),
Allen Newell (1989), Marvin Minsky (1991), Raymond Reiter (1993),
Herbert Simo(1995), Aravind Joshi (1997), Judea Pearl (1999), Donald
Michie (2001), Nils Nilsson (2003), Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005), Alan
Bundy (2007), Victor Lesser (2009), Robert Anthony Kowalski (2011),
Hector Levesque (2013), Barbara Grosz (2015), Michael I. Jordan
(2016), Andrew Barto (2017) and Jitendra Malik (2018), Yoav Shoham
(2019), Eugene Charles Freuder (2020), and Richard Sutton (2021).

Information available at https://www.ijcai.org/awards