Distinctions for Basic Research:

• Lin, Shou-de Lin and Chalupsky, Hans: Second place in the open task of ACM KDDCup 2003 for "Using Unsupervised Link Discovery Methods to Find Interesting Facts and Connections in a Bibliography Dataset" [.pdf]
  
• Harth, Andreas: Semantic Web Challenge, 2003, Second prize for "SECO" project on enabling collaboration in online communities. [Application]
  
• Lin, Shou-de and Knoblock, Craig: IEEE/WIC International Conference on Web Intelligence, 2003, Best Paper award for "Exploiting a Search Engine to Develop More Flexible Web Agents." [.pdf]
  
• Støy, K., W.-M. Shen, and P. Will: International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB02), 2002, Best Paper award for "On the Use of Sensors in Self-Reconfigurable Robots." [PostScript]
• D.V. Pynadath and M. Tambe: International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), July, 2002, Best Paper award for "Multiagent Teamwork: Analyzing the Optimality and Complexity of Key Theories and Models." [.pdf]
  
• A. D'Souza, J. Rickel, B. Herreros, and W.L. Johnson: International Conference on AI in Education (AI-Ed), May 2001. Distinguished Paper award for "An Automated Lab Instructor for Simulated Science Experiments." [.pdf]
  
• J. Rickel and W.L. Johnson.: International Conference on AI in Education (AI-Ed), July 1999, Outstanding Paper award for "Virtual Humans for Team Training in Virtual Reality." [.pdf]
  
• 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 for "An Integrated Environment for Knowledge Acquisition." [.pdf]
  
• U. Germann, M. Jahr, K. Knight, D. Marcu, and K. Yamada: Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2001, Best Paper award for "Fast Decoding and Optimal Decoding for Machine Translation." [.pdf]
  
• K. Knight and D. Marcu: National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2000, Outstanding Paper award for "Statistics-Based Summarization --- Step One: Sentence Compression." [PostScript]

• D. Traum, J. Rickel, J. Gratch and S. Marsella. Best Innovative System/Application Paper Award at the Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2003, for "Negotiations over Tasks in Hybrid Human-Agent Teams for Simulation-Based Training." [.pdf]
• 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]