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The winning papers were selected by the program cochairs with the help of some members of the Senior Program Committee. Alan Mackworth, AAAI President, and Ron Brachman, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, presented the AAAI awards in July at AAAI-07 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Award winners received a certificate and a check for $1,000. The 2007 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the authors of the most influential paper from the Seventh National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1988 in St. Paul, Minnesota. The award was presented to Peter Cheeseman, Matthew Self, Jim Kelly, Will Taylor, and Don Freeman for "Bayesian Classification."