[agents] IJCAI-23 Awards: Call for Nominations

[Maria Gini]

IJCAI-23 Awards: Call for Nominations

IJCAI calls for nominations for its 2023 awards. These awards include
the Computer and Thought Award, the John McCarthy Award, and the
Research Excellence Award. The 2023 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 and letters of support must be submitted as a single PDF
file.  The name of the file must include the last name of the nominee.
The deadline for submissions is == April 15, 2023 ==.  Nominations
received after the due date will not be considered.

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).

Computers and Thought nomination form:  https://forms.gle/bHPsgK7QMuSWxVx56

The Computers and Thought Award is presented to outstanding young
scientists in Artificial Intelligence.  Nominees for the IJCAI
Computers and Thought Award should have received their PhD within the
last 7 years at the date of the IJCAI conference.  The eligibility
period can be extended beyond 7 years for the following properly
documented circumstances occurring after the Ph.D. defense: parenting
leave, national service, illness of the nominee or close family
members, or other exceptional circumstances.

John McCarthy nomination form: https://forms.gle/X7kbJGUj4ijHWTF59

The IJCAI John McCarthy Award is intended to recognize established
mid-career researchers, typically between 15 to 25 years after
obtaining their Ph.D., that have built up a major track record of
research excellence in Artificial Intelligence, with significant
contributions to research agenda in area and have a first-rate profile
of influential research results.

Research Excellence nomination form: https://forms.gle/RGbJwZjkQPF3RNKU7

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.


Informal inquiries or requests for clarification should be sent to the
chair of the IJCAI-2023 awards committee: Maria Gini <gini at umn.edu>
(subject line: "IJCAI 2023 Awards").


Past recipients of the Computers and Thought Award: 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),
Stefano Ermon (2018), Guy Van den Broeck (2019), Piotr Skowron (2020),
Fei Fang (2021), and Bo Li (2022).

Past recipients of the John McCarthy Award: Bart Selman (2015), Moshe
Tennenholtz (2016), Dan Roth (2017), Milind Tambe (2018), Pedro
Domingos (2019), Daniela Rus (2020),and Tuomas Sandholm (2021), and
Michael L. Littman (2022).

Past recipients of the Award for Research Excellence: 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), Jitendra Malik (2018), Yoav Shoham
(2019), Eugene Charles Freuder (2020), Richard Sutton (2021), and
Stuart Russell (2022).

Information on the awards and previous winners is at
https://www.ijcai.org/awards