AI Magazine - Spring 2018

paper(s) deemed most influential from
the Seventeenth National Conference
on Artificial Intelligence, held in 2000
in Austin, Texas, USA. The 2018 recip-
ient of the AAAI Classic Paper Award
was:
PROMPT: Algorithm and Tool for
Automated Ontology Merging and
Alignment
Natasha Noy and Mark A. Musen
Noy and Musen were honored for pio-
neering ontology matching and inte-
gration research, by identifying the
specifics of the problem and providing
a first innovative solution. Natasha
Noy presented an invited talk during
the conference in recognition of this
honor.

Natasha Noy is a staff scientist at
Google where she works on making
structured data accessible and useful.
Prior to joining Google, Noy worked at
Stanford Center for Biomedical Infor-
matics Research where she made major
contributions in the areas of ontology
development and alignment, and col-
laborative ontology engineering.
Natasha is the immediate past presi-
dent of the Semantic Web Science
Association and is on the editorial
noard of several semantic web and
information systems journals.
Mark A. Musen, MD, PhD is a pro-
fessor of biomedical informatics and of
biomedical data science at Stanford
University, where he is director of the
Stanford Center for Biomedical Infor-
matics Research. Dr. Musen conducts
research related to intelligent systems,
reusable ontologies, biomedical deci-
sion support, and open science. His
group developed the Protégé system
for building and managing terminolo-
gies and ontologies. He serves as prin-
cipal investigator of the National Cen-
ter for Biomedical Ontology and of the
Center for Expanded Data Annotation
and Retrieval (CEDAR). CEDAR is a
center of excellence supported by the
NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative,
with the goal of developing new meth-
ods to ease the authoring and manage-
ment of experimental metadata using
semantic technology.

For more information about nominations for AAAI 2019 Awards, please contact Carol Hamilton at hamil-ton@aaai.org.

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Congratulations to the
2018 AAAI Fellows!

Each year a small number of fellows are recognized for their unusual distinction in the profession and for their sustained contributions to the field for a decade or more. An official dinner and ceremony were held in their honor during AAAI- 18 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Nancy M. Amato (Texas A&M University, USA)

For significant contributions to the algorithmic foundations of motion planning in robotics and computational biology and leadership in broadening participation in computing.

Regina Barzilay (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

For significant contributions to natural language processing.

Marie desJardins (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)

For significant contributions to machine learning, planning, and multiagent systems, and for exceptional service, mentoring, and teaching.

Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia, Canada)

For significant contributions to machine learning for algorithm optimization, and theoretical and practical aspects of computational game theory and market design.

Dinesh Manocha (University of Maryland at College Park, USA)

For significant contributions to robotics and multiagent simulation.

Joelle Pineau (McGill University, Canada)

For significant contributions to reinforcement learning, including planning and learning in complex partially-observable domains, and applications in robotics and healthcare.