AAAI Classic Paper Award
The AAAI Classic Paper award honors the author(s) of paper(s) deemed most influential, chosen from a specific conference year. Each year, the time period considered will advance by one year. The 2008 award will be given to the most influential paper(s) from the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Papers will be judged on the basis of impact, for example:
- Started a new research (sub)area
- Led to important applications
- Answered a long-standing question/issue or clarified what had been murky
- Made a major advance that figures in the history of the subarea
- Has been picked up as important and used by other areas within (or outside of) AI
- Has been very heavily cited
All members of the artificial intelligence community are encouraged to submit nominations for this award. Candidacy is not limited to AAAI members, nor to people still active in artificial intelligence. Posthumous awards will be considered.
Nominations will be reviewed by the AAAI Awards Committee. Nominations are due March 15, 2008.
The award will be presented at the AAAI-08 conference in Chicago, Illinois. A total of $1,000 in travel support is available to enable the author(s) to travel to the conference to accept the award in person.
For a nomination form, or for more information regarding these awards, please contact Carol Hamilton, Executive Director, AAAI or call 650-328-3123.
Past Recipients
2007
- Classic Paper Award Corecipients: Peter Cheeseman, Matthew Self, Jim Kelly, Will Taylor, and Don Freeman
Bayesian Classification presented at the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), St. Paul, Minnesota
Honorable Mention Corecipients: Benjamin J. Kuipers and Yung-Tai Byun
A Robust, Qualitative Method for Robot Spatial Learning presented at the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), St. Paul, Minnesota
2006
- Classic Paper Award Corecipients: Philip E. Agre and David Chapman
Pengi: An Implementation of a Theory of Activity, presented at the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington
Classic Paper Award Corecipients: Amy Lansky and Michael P. Georgeff
Reactive Reasoning and Planning, presented at the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington
Honorable Mention Corecipients: Judea Pearl and Thomas Verma
The Logic of Representing Dependencies by Directed Graphs, presented at the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington
Honorable Mention Corecipient: Richard E Korf
Real-Time Heuristic Search: First Results, presented at the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87), Seattle, Washington
2005
- Classic Paper Award Corecipient: David Haussler
Quantifying the Inductive Bias in Concept Learning (extended abstract), presented at the Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Classic Paper Award Corecipients: Steve Hanks and Drew McDermott
Default Reasoning, Nonmonotonic Logics, and the Frame Problem, presented at the Fifth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004
- Classic Paper Award Recipient: Hector Levesque
A Logic of Implicit and Explicit Belief, presented at the Fourth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-84), Austin, Texas
Honorable Mention Corecipient: Michael Georgeff, for A Theory of Action for MultiAgent Planning
Honorable Mention Corecipients: Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque, for The Tractability of Subsumption in Frame-Based Description Languages
2002
- Classic Paper Award Recipient: John Canny
A Variational Approach to Edge Detection, presented at the Third National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-83), Washington, D.C.
2000
- Classic Paper Award Recipient: Judea Pearl
Reverend Bayes on Inference Engines: A Distributed Hierarchical Approach, presented at the Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-82), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1999
- Classic Paper Award Recipient: John McDermott
R1: An Expert in the Computer Systems Domain, presented at the First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-80), Stanford University, Stanford, California.