Lifetime Achievement Award
The CAIAC Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest honour bestowed by CAIAC. This award is for lifetime achievement in AI research rather than for a single contribution. It is presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves through outstanding research excellence in Artificial Intelligence during the course of their academic career.
Nominations
Nominees should have an academic career of at least 25 years, after obtaining their Doctorate.
To nominate someone:
- Fill out the nomination form (PDF or DOC)
- Ask your nominee if they are willing to be nominated and if so, to send you their his/her CV
- Forward the form and CV to secretary@caiac.ca by March 24, 2025 by 11:59pm (AOE). (Time-zone AOE - Anywhere on Earth : UTC-12)
The CAIAC secretary will forward these nominations to the Awards Committee members. Award winners will be notified by mid-April so they can have the opportunity to attend the conference in person to accept their award, if possible. The winners will be announced on social media and online before the conference and will be given their award at the banquet during the upcoming Canadian AI Conference being held May 27-31 at the University of Guelph.
Previous Winners
- 2024: Sheila McIlraith, University of Toronto (Biography)
- 2024: Ali A. Ghorbani, University of New Brunswick (Biography)
- 2023: Richard Zemel, Columbia University (Biography)
- 2022: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto (Biography)
- 2022: François Laviolette, Université Laval (Biography)
- 2021: Russell Greiner, University of Alberta (Biography)
- 2021: John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto (Biography)
- 2019: Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University (Biography)
- 2019: Robert Holte, University of Alberta (Biography)
- 2018: Yoshua Bengio, University of Montreal (Biography)
- 2018: Robin Cohen, University of Waterloo (Biography)
- 2018: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto (Biography)
- 2018: Richard Sutton, University of Alberta (Biography)
- 2017: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
- 2015: Nicholas Joseph (Nick) Cercone, York University (Biography)
- 2013: David Poole, University of British Columbia (Biography)
- 2012: Hector Levesque, University of Toronto (Biography)
- 2011: Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal (Biography)
- 2010: Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia (Biography)
- 2008: Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta (Biography)
