ACM, AAAI Recognise Bernhard Schölkopf and Stuart J. Russell for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Bernhard Schölkopf, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and ETH Zurich, and Stuart J. Russell, University of California at Berkeley, have received the ACM – AAAI Allen Newell Award. Schölkopf was recognised for his widely used research in machine learning, advancing both mathematical foundations and a broad range of applications in science and industry. Russell was honoured for a series of foundational contributions to Artificial Intelligence, spanning a wide range of areas such as logical and probabilistic reasoning, knowledge representation, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and the ethics of AI.