AAAI Distinguished Service Award
The AAAI Distinguished Service award recognizes one individual each year for extraordinary service to the AI community. Areas of service could include, but are not limited to: society service, service as an editor, conference organization, representation of AI in other organizations (such as CRA, ACM, or IEEE), or influential service as a government agency contract monitor or program director, resulting in positive effects on the field of AI. Nominees must be current members of AAAI.
All regular members of AAAI are encouraged to place an individual's name in nomination. Nominations will be reviewed by the AAAI Awards Committee, and their final recommendation will be approved by the AAAI President. Nominations are due March 15, 2013.
The winner will receive a $1,000 prize.
For a nomination form, or for more information regarding these awards, please contact Carol Hamilton, Executive Director (awards13@aaai.org), or call 650-328-3123.
- Nomination form (HTML)
Past Recipients
- 2012: Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds
For his contributions to the discipline of artificial intelligence through sustained service in professional societies, conferences, journals, and funding agencies around the world. - 2011: David L. Waltz, Center for Computational Learning Systems, Columbia University
For his extraordinary and long-term technical contributions to artificial intelligence including ground-breaking work in computer vision, memory-based reasoning, classification, and information retrieval, and dedicated organizational leadership within the AI research community. Beyond the influence of his ideas and guidance, his insights, wisdom, and generous mentorship have been of great value in the nurturing and support of numerous students and colleagues. - 2010: Alan K. Mackworth, University of British Columbia
For his outstanding service to artificial intelligence, including seminal scientific contributions in constraint-based representations and methods, with pioneering efforts in machine vision, robotics, and situated agents, and his sustained service in numerous key leadership roles, including the presidencies of AAAI, IJCAI, and the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI), amidst a lifetime of catalyzing and promoting AI research. - 2008: Ronald J. Brachman, Yahoo! Research
For his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service in numerous leadership roles in industry, government and professional societies, tirelessly instigating, facilitating and promoting successful AI research and development. - 2007: Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
For his outstanding service to artificial intelligence and computer science, including seminal intellectual and service contributions to machine learning and leadership at Carnegie Mellon University and in AAAI, NRC, and AAAS. - 2006: Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University
For a lifetime of service to artificial intelligence as a tireless and effective champion of the field, including seminal contributions to the theory and practice of knowledge-based systems, coeditorship of the first major collection of AI papers, mentorship of numerous leading AI researchers, facilitation of the commercialization of AI technology, and service to the AI and computer science communities in many key leadership roles, including president of AAAI and chief scientist of the US Air Force - 2005: Nils Nilsson, Stanford University
For a lifetime of service to artificial intelligence, including seminal scientific contributions to pattern recognition, heuristic search, planning, robotics and expert systems, pioneering achievements in scientific publishing and skilled exposition in many influential textbooks, and service to the AI and computer science communities in many key leadership roles including president of AAAI. - 2004: Bruce Buchanan, University of Pittsburgh
For a lifetime of service to the science of artificial intelligence, including seminal scientific contributions to knowledge based systems and machine learning, educational impacts on many graduate students and on researchers in medicine, philosophy, and other fields beyond the borders of AI, and selfless professional service as secretary-treasurer and president of AAAI. - 2002: Raj Reddy, Carnegie Mellon University
For his lifetime of service to the science of artificial intelligence, including significant advances in speech understanding, reasoning, representation, and robotics, the initial formation of the AAAI and service as president, global leadership in the digital library project, and wise counsel to numerous students, colleagues, administrators, and politicians. - 2000: Daniel Bobrow, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
For his significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service to AAAI and stewardship of artificial intelligence. - 1999: Barbara Grosz, Harvard University
For her contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service in a multitude of academic, professional society, and government leadership roles, at the local, national and international levels, through which she has had a major effect on the field and on those working in it.