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Dr. Daphne Koller wins first-ever ACM-Infosys Foundation Award
Dr. Daphne Koller won the 2007 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award for her work in combining relational logic and probability that allows probabilistic reasoning to be applied to a wide range of applications, including robotics, economics and biology.
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)-Infosys Foundation Award recognizes innovation by young scientists and system developers in Computing Sciences. The winner receives US$ 150,000 from the Infosys Foundation endowment.
In her acceptance speech, Dr. Koller said, "I'm deeply honored to be the first recipient of the ACM-Infosys award. I would like to thank the Infosys Corporation, and its chairman, Narayana Murthy, for endowing this generous award, which will undoubtedly help highlight the importance of basic computer science research to pushing forward the cutting edge in information technology. The ACM-Infosys award has been described as a mid-career award, which is a wonderful thing, because now is a particularly exciting time to do research in computer science. Computing now pervades virtually every aspect of our social fabric, and every field of intellectual endeavor, setting up a whole new range of problems that require sophisticated computational solutions. Thus, computer science has a unique opportunity to apply itself to a new stream of exciting computational problems, while making a tremendous impact on society, scientific discovery, and human health. I feel fortunate to take part in this endeavor."
S. Gopalakrishnan, CEO, Infosys, said that the award will set an example and inspire students to consider careers in computing science and innovate. "Our goal is to identify breakthroughs that have broad implications well beyond the scope of the innovation itself, and that reflect an underlying scientific or engineering methodology that is remarkable for its rigor or for its sheer audacity."
ACM is an educational and scientific society that unites the world's computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field's challenges.
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Dr. Daphne Koller, the winner of the ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, is an accomplished mathematical theoretician. The award honors her research in artificial intelligence to enable a range of intelligent machines and systems.
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