Award Winners

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Lifetime Achievement Award
Prix d'excellence pour l'ensemble des réalisations

Award presented to an individual to recognize a lifetime of scientific excellence and outstanding contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Prix présenté à une personne afin de reconnaître l’excellence scientifique et les contributions de l’ensemble de ses réalisations en matière d’intelligence artificielle (IA).

  • 2022: Fahiem Bacchus, University of Toronto (Biography) and François Laviolette, Universite 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)

Distinguished Service Award
Prix de l'excellence du service

Award presented to an individual to recognize his or her outstanding service to CAIAC (formerly the CSCSI/SCEIO) and to the Canadian Artificial Intelligence community.

Prix présenté à une personne afin de reconnaître son service remarquable offert aux membres de CAIAC et à la communauté canadienne de l’IA.

  • 2022: Malek Mouhoub, University of Regina (Biography)
  • 2021: Nathalie Japkowicz, American University (Biography)
  • 2020: Marina Sokolova, Dalhousie University and University of Ottawa (Biography)
  • 2019: Peter van Beek, University of Waterloo (Biography)
  • 2019: Vlado Keselj, Dalhousie University (Biography)
  • 2017: Fred Popowich, Simon Fraser University (Biography)
  • 2016: Daniel (Danny) Silver, Acadia University (Biography)
  • 2012: Bob Mercer, University of Western Ontario (Biography)
  • 2010: Stan Matwin, University of Ottawa (Biography)
  • 2009: Howard Hamilton, University of Regina (Biography)
  • 2008: Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto (Biography)
  • 2000: Gord McCalla, University of Saskatchewan (Biography (2018))
  • 1996: Nick Cercone, York University
  • 1994: Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia
  • 1992: John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto

Special Awards (2006: 30th Anniversary of Canadian AI conference)
Prix spéciaux (2006 : 30e anniversaire de la conférence canadienne sur l’IA)

  • Alan Mackworth, University of British Columbia: Program chair of first Canadian AI conference
  • Richard Rosenberg, University of British Columbia: General chair of first Canadian AI conference