The winners of the 2022 ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award were celebrated in person during the 2023 ACM awards ceremony, in San Francisco at the The Palace hotel on Saturday, June 10th, 2023.
Awards
Milind Tambe of Harvard University and Google Research Wins 2023 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize
The 2023 recipient of the Feigenbaum Prize is Milind Tambe, for high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innovation and achievement in socially beneficial applications of AI in security, healthcare, and conservation.
Ayanna Howard of The Ohio State University wins 2023 AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award
The 2023 recipient of the Feigenbaum Prize is Milind Tambe, for high-impact contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through innovation and achievement in socially beneficial applications of AI in security, healthcare, and conservation.
Tuomas Sandholm of Carnegie Mellon University wins 2023 AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity
Since 2021, the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity has recognized the positive impacts of artificial intelligence to protect, enhance, and improve human life in meaningful ways with long-lived effects. This year, the AAAI Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the 2023 recipient of the award and $25,000 prize is […]
Duke Computer Scientist Wins $1 Million Artificial Intelligence Prize, A ‘New Nobel’
Duke professor Cynthia Rudin is the second recipient of the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI. She is being cited for “pioneering scientific work in the area of interpretable and transparent AI systems in real-world deployments, the advocacy for these features in highly sensitive areas such as social justice and medical diagnosis, and serving as a role model for researchers and practitioners.”
Regina Barzilay wins $1m Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Squirrel AI Award
Professor Regina Barzilay of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), is the first winner of the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, in recognition for her work developing machine learning models to develop antibiotics and other drugs, and to detect and diagnose breast cancer at early stages.