AAAI News

Tom Mitchell, AAAI Past President and Awards Committee Chair, and Ron Brachman, AAAI President, presented the AAAI Awards recently at AAAI-04 in San Jose, California. The award winners received a certificate and a check for $1,000. The 2004 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper from the Fourth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1984 in Austin, Texas. The Awards Committee selected Hector J. Levesque, of the University of Toronto, to receive this award for his paper, "A Logic of Implicit and Explicit Belief." Levesque was honored for his seminal contributions to the formalization of knowledge and belief.