2013
- Best paper, in-use track, Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), 2013. P. Szekely, C. Knoblock, F. Yang, X. Zhu, E. Flink, R. Allen, and G. Goodlander.
- Best student paper, International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction (SBP), 2013. J.-H. Kang, K. Lerman, and L. Getoor.
2012
- Best Research Paper, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 2012. R. Parundekar, C. Knoblock, and J.L. Ambite
- Best Poster, Intelligent Tutoring Systems Conference (ITS), 2012. J. Park and J. Kim
- Best Submission, PhD workshop, EDBT/ICDT Joint Conference on database theory and technology, 2012, G. Konstantinidis
- Grand Prize, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, R. Maheswaran, Y.-H. Chang, A. Henehan and S. Danesis. 2012
2011
- Best Demonstration, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2011. Y. Chang and R. Maheswaran.
- Best paper award runner up, Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2011. C. Fritz and Y. Gil.
- Most Cited Paper Award, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2011. N. Wang, W. L. Johnson, R. E. Mayer, P. Rizzo, E. Shaw, H. Collins
2010
- Third place prize, International Semantic Web Challenge at ISWC’10 for “Shortipedia: Aggregating and Curating Semantic Web Data”, D. Vrandecic, M. Krötzsch, V. Ratnakar, and Y. Gil.
- Honorary mention, Semantic Web Triplification Challenge, 2010 for BibBase, C. Fritz and others.
2009 and prior
- First place prize, Planetary Robotic Contingency Challenge at the First ICRA Robot Challenge at ICRA’08 in Pasadena, CA, B. Salemi and others.
- Best paper in the Autonomous/Unmanned Systems area, 26th Army Science Conference, 2008.
- Best paper award. Semantic Computing, 2007. Pradhan, S., E.H. Hovy, M. Marcus, M. Palmer, L. Ramshaw, and R. Weischedel.
- Best paper award. International Conference on Digital Government Research, 2007. Ambite, J.L. and D. Kapoor.
- Significant Technical Achievement Award at the 24th DARPA Systems and Technology Symposium 2005, for the Tactical Language Learning project, L. Johnson.
- Best training paper award. Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference, 2004. Johnson, W. L., Marsella, S., Vilhjalmsson, H.
- Best paper award. Web Intelligence, 2003. S. Lin and C. Knoblock.
- Best paper award. Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB02), 2002. Støy, K., W.-M. Shen, and P. Will.
- Best Paper Award. Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2001. J. Blythe, J. Kim, S. Ramachandran, and Y. Gil.
- Best Paper Award. Assoc. for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2001. U. Germann, M. Jahr, K. Knight, D. Marcu, and K. Yamada.
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Best Paper Award, Association for the Advancement of AI (AAAI), K. Knight and D. Marcu.
Professional Conference Leadership
IUI’13 Program Chair: Pedro Szekely
IUI’13 Conference Chair: Jihie Kim
IJCAI’11 Conference Chair: Craig Knoblock
AAAI’06 Program co-Chair: Yolanda Gil
ACL’05 Chair: Kevin Knight
ISWC '05 Program co-Chair: Yolanda Gil
ACL’04 Program co-Chair: Daniel Marcu
HLT/NAACL’03 Chair: Ed Hovy
IUI’03 Program Chair: Lewis Johnson
IUI’02 Program Chair: Yolanda Gil
AAMAS ’02 founding Program Chair: Lewis Johnson
AIED’01 Program Chair: Lewis Johnson
NAACL’01 founding Program Chair: Kevin Knight
AIPS’00 Conference co-Chair: Craig Knoblock
Professional Society Leadership
IJCAI President Craig Knoblock
ACL Past President: Kevin Knight
AAAI Fellow: Yolanda Gil
AAAI Fellow: Craig Knoblock
ACM SIGART Chair: Yolanda Gil
DGSNA Treasurer: Yigal Arens
AAAI Conference Committee Chair: Yolanda Gil
DGSNA Past President: Ed Hovy
ICAPS President: Craig Knoblock
AAAI Past Councilor: Yolanda Gil
ACL Past President: Ed Hovy
AIED Past President: Lewis Johnson
IAMT Past President: Ed Hovy
AAAI Past Councilor: Craig Knoblock