IJCAI Award for Research Excellence

The IJCAI Award for Research Excellence is a biannual award before given at the IJCAI conference to researcher in artificial intelligence as a recognition of excellence of their career. Beginning in 2016, the conference is held annually and so is the award.

Laureates
The recipients of this award have been:


 * John McCarthy (1985)
 * Allen Newell (1989)
 * Marvin Minsky (1991)
 * Raymond Reiter (1993)
 * Herbert A. Simon (1995)
 * Aravind Joshi (1997)
 * Judea Pearl (1999)
 * Donald Michie (2001)
 * Nils Nilsson (2003)
 * Geoffrey E. Hinton (2005)
 * Alan Bundy (2007)
 * Victor R. Lesser (2009)
 * Robert Kowalski (2011)
 * Hector Levesque (2013)
 * Barbara Grosz (2015)
 * for her pioneering research in Natural Language Processing and in theories and applications of Multiagent Collaboration.


 * Michael I. Jordan (2016)
 * for his groundbreaking and impactful research in both the theory and application of statistical machine learning.


 * Andrew Barto (2017)
 * for his pioneering work in the theory of reinforcement learning.


 * Jitendra Malik (2018)
 * Yoav Shoham (2019)
 * Eugene Freuder (2020)
 * Richard S. Sutton (2021)
 * Stuart J. Russell (2022)
 * Sarit Kraus (2023)
 * for her pioneering work of the study of interactions among self-interested agents, creating the field of automated negotiation, and developing methods for coalition formation and teamwork, both as formal models and real-world implementations.

Winners of also Turing Award

 * John McCarthy (1971)
 * Allen Newell (1975)
 * Marvin Minsky (1969)
 * Herbert A. Simon (1975)
 * Judea Pearl (2011)
 * Geoffrey Hinton (2018)