The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and Squirrel AI Learning announced the establishment of a new $1M annual award for societal benefits of AI.
Awards
AAAI Awards Inaugural Feigenbaum Prize
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is delighted to announce that Sebastian Thrun, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Director of the Stanford AI Lab at Stanford University, and William A. “Red” Whittaker, Professor, Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, have been selected as the joint winners of the inaugural 2011 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize.
AAAI Announces Feigenbaum Prize
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is delighted to announce the establishment of a new award called the AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. The AAAI Feigenbaum Prize will be awarded biennially to recognize and encourage outstanding Artificial Intelligence research advances that are made by using experimental methods of computer science.
DARPA Grand Challenge Winner Sebastian Thrun
Sebastian Thrun will present an invited talk on “Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge” at this year’s IAAI conference describing how his experience at AAAI Mobile Robot Competitions impacted his current work.
DARPA Grand Challenge Winner Sebastian Thrun
A Competitor in Three AAAI Mobile Robot Competitions in the 1990s Returns this Year to Give an Invited Talk on “Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge”.