2013 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize Awarded!

AAAI is delighted to announce that the IBM Watson Team has been selected as the winner of the 2013 AAAI Feigenbaum Prize. Jennifer Chu-Carroll of IBM accepted the award during AAAI-13 on behalf of the entire team for their successful Jeopardy challenge in 2010. The team was specifically honored for demonstrating that a synthesis of AI techniques, including symbolic knowledge representation, natural language understanding, and statistical machine learning, can achieve human-level performance in real-time factual questionanswering. The Feigenbaum Prize is awarded biennially to recognize and encourage outstanding artificial intelligence research advances that are made by using experimental methods of computer science. The associated cash prize of $10,000 is provided by the Feigenbaum Nii Foundation. The 2013 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the most influential papers from the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1994 in Seattle, Washington.