Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University honored for career in artificial intelligence
Thomas Dietterich will receive the highest honor for a career in artificial intelligence for his four decades of intellectual leadership in machine learning. Only 23 others have received the Award for Research Excellence from the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence since its inception in 1985. The first to receive the award was John McCarthy, known as the father of AI. Dietterich will accept the award in August at the annual conference 2024 IJCAI in Jeju, South Korea.