IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
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The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is a biannual award given at the IJCAI conference to researcher in artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 as a recognition of excellence
Excellence
Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also an aimed for standard of performance.-History:...

 of their career. The recipients of this award have been:
  • John McCarthy
    John McCarthy (computer scientist)
    John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He coined the term "artificial intelligence" , invented the Lisp programming language and was highly influential in the early development of AI.McCarthy also influenced other areas of computing such as time sharing systems...

     (1985)
  • Allen Newell
    Allen Newell
    Allen Newell was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Department of Psychology...

     (1989)
  • Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Lee Minsky is an American cognitive scientist in the field of artificial intelligence , co-founder of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory, and author of several texts on AI and philosophy.-Biography:...

     (1991)
  • Raymond Reiter
    Raymond Reiter
    Raymond Reiter , was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems...

     (1993)
  • Herbert Simon
    Herbert Simon
    Herbert Alexander Simon was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor—most notably at Carnegie Mellon University—whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics,...

     (1995)
  • Aravind Joshi
    Aravind Joshi
    Aravind Krishna Joshi is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania...

     (1997)
  • Judea Pearl
    Judea Pearl
    Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and philosopher, best known for developing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks ....

     (1999)
  • Donald Michie
    Donald Michie
    Donald Michie was a British researcher in artificial intelligence. During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny," a German teleprinter cipher.-Early life and career:Michie was born in Rangoon, Burma...

     (2001)
  • Nils Nilsson (2003)
  • Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005)
  • Alan Bundy
    Alan Bundy
    Alan Bundy, FRSE, FBCS, FAAAI, FECCAI, FAISB, is a professor at the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, known for his contributions to automated reasoning, especially to proof-planning, the use of meta-level reasoning to guide proof search....

     (2007)
  • Victor Lesser (2009)
  • Robert Kowalski
    Robert Kowalski
    Robert "Bob" Anthony Kowalski is a British logician and computer scientist, who has spent most of his career in the United Kingdom....

    (2011)
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