Distinctions for Basic Research:

• "Multiagent Teamwork: Analyzing the Optimality and Complexity of Key Theories and Models." D.V. Pynadath and M. Tambe. International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), July, 2002. Best Paper award. [.pdf]
  
• "An Automated Lab Instructor for Simulated Science Experiments." A. D'Souza, J. Rickel, B. Herreros, and W.L. Johnson. International Conference on AI in Education (AI-Ed), May 2001. Distinguished Paper award. (at right) [.pdf]
  
• "Virtual Humans for Team Training in Virtual Reality." J. Rickel and W.L. Johnson. International Conference on AI in Education (AI-Ed), July 1999. Outstanding Paper award. [.pdf]
  
• "An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition." Jim Blythe, Jihie Kim, Surya Ramachandran, and Yolanda Gil. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2001), Santa Fe, New Mexico, January 2001. Best Paper Award. [.pdf]
  
• "Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation." U. Germann, M. Jahr, K. Knight, D. Marcu, and K. Yamada. Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2001. Best Paper award. [.pdf]
  
• "Statistics-Based Summarization --- Step One: Sentence Compression." K. Knight and D. Marcu. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000. Outstanding Paper award. [PostScript]

• W. Swartout, R. Hill, J. Gratch, W.L. Johnson, C. Kyriakakis, K. Labore, R. Lindheim, S. Marsella, D. Miraglia, B. Moore, J. Morie, J. Rickel, M. Thiebaux, L. Tuch, R. Whitney, and J. Douglas. Fifth International Conference on Autonomous Agents, May 2001, FIPA Software Prototype Award for "Toward the Holodeck: Integrating Graphics, Sound, Character and Story". [.pdf]
  
• Milind Tambe and Stacy Marsella: Scientific Challenge Award, RoboCup'99 International Robotic Soccer competitions, held in conjunction with IJCAI'99, for outstanding research at a RoboCup competition.
  
• Wei-Min Shen and others: First place prize, to the robot Dreamteam in the 1997 World Cup Robot Soccer Competition RoboCup97 in Nagoya, Japan. [Home page]
  
• Milind Tambe and others: Third place prize, RoboCup'97 International Robotic Soccer Competitions, held in conjunction with IJCAI'97, in the simulation league.
  
• Wei-Min Shen and others: Second Place Award for the robot YODA at the 1996 AAAI Robot Competition for Indoor Navigation, in Portland, Oregon. [Home page]