Efros, Guestrin, and Clarke Win Awards
This must be the year for awards. They just keep rolling in!
- Alyosha Efros has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship award. While most of the prestigious Guggenheim awards go to people with exceptional accomplishments in the creative arts, a few are given in the sciences. Alyosha’s groundbreaking work in image and video processing has always impressed us. With this award, he will be able to continue a collaboration with colleagues at a new vision lab in Ecole Normale Superieure.
- Carlos Guestrin has been selected for an ONR Young Investigator award. Carlos, despite being “young”, is widely considered one of the leading lights in a range of cutting-edge research areas, spanning machine learning to sensor networks.
- Ed Clarke, the 2007 ACM Turing Award winner, has also received the 2008 Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning. In a year where the computing field’s top award goes to a person in the area of automated reasoning, it only stands to reason that Ed would also win the Herbrand Award.
Congratulations to Alyosha, Carlos, and Ed!
Peter Lee @ April 24, 2008