IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
Awarded for	recognizing outstanding young scientists in artificial intelligence
Sponsored by	International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Date	Started in 1971
Website	ijcai.org/awards

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. It was originally funded with royalties received from the book Computers and Thought (edited by Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman), and is currently funded by IJCAI.^[1]

It is considered to be "the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35".^[2]

Laureates

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 E. 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 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. ^[3]
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. ^[4]
Piotr Skowron (2020) for his contributions to computational social choice, and to the theory of committee elections.