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AAAI President David L. Waltz presented the three AAAI Awards at AAAI-2000 in Austin, Texas. Each award winner received a certificate and a check for $2500. The 2000 AAAI Classic Paper Award was given to the author of the most influential paper(s) from the Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in 1982 at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Awards Committee selected Judea Pearl of the University of California at Los Angeles to receive this Judea Pearl accepts Classic Paper Award at AAAI-2000 in Austin, Texas. Pearl is being honored for revolutionizing uncertain reasoning through the introduction of efficient Bayesian inference methods.