• Scientific American 50, co-recipient of computer science policy leader award. (2004)

• 14 IBM Patent Plateau Awards. (1990–1999)

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for ScrollPoint. (1997)

• IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Kinglet Projection Computer. (1995)

• Research Division Award for Recruitment. (1995)

• PC, Australia – ThinkPad 755CV, Best New Hardware. (1995)

• CeBit – ThinkPad 755CV, Industrial Design Award. (1995)

• Industry Forum Design Committee – ThinkPad 755CV, 1995 If Award For Good Design. (1995)

• Mobile Insights; ThinkPad 755CV, Mobility Award, Best Multimedia Notebook, Product of the Year. (1995)

• Mobile Office – ThinkPad 755CV, Product of the Year. (1995)

• PC Laptop Computers – ThinkPad 755CV, Editors’ Choice Award Notebook of the Year. (1995)

• Multimedia World – ThinkPad 755CV, Best Portable Multimedia PC Reader’s Choice Award. (1995)

• IBM Cooperate Awards for TrackPoint. (1993,1994,1997)

• PC Magazine – TrackPoint II – Technical Excellence Finalist, Design Category. (1993)

• PC Magazine Design Award Finalist TrackPoint. (1993)

   

Department of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University, China

Zhi-Hua Zhou is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, and the National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China. His research interests are mainly in machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition and artificial intelligence. In these areas he has published over 80 papers in leading international journals or conferences, and holds 11 patents. He has been awarded with various honors such as the Fok Ying Tung Young Professorship First-Grade Award, the National Science & Technology Award for Young Scholars, the Microsoft Young Professorship Award, and a number of journal/conference paper/competition awards such as the "Pattern Recognition" Journal 2006-2010 Most Cited Article, IEEE ICDM 2008 Theoretical/Algorithms Runner-up Best Paper Award, PAKDD 2006 Data Mining Competition Grand Champion team coach, etc.

He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of "Chinese Science Bulletin", Associate Editor of "IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering" and "ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology", and on the editorial boards of various other journals such as "Science China: Information Science" and "Journal of Information Science and Engineering". He also serves/served as guest editor for journals such as "Machine Learning", "Pattern Recognition" , "IEEE Intelligent Systems", etc. He is the Founding Steering Committee Co-Chair of ACML, and Steering Committee member of PAKDD and PRICAI. He served as Program Committee Chair or Area Chair of many conferences.

He is the Chair of the Machine Learning Technical Committee of the China Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), the Vice Chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation (CCF), and Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Nanjing Chapter.

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Thomas G. Dietterich

Professor and Director of Intelligent Systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University

 

Dr. Dietterich's current research focuses on interdisciplinary research at the boundary of computer science, ecology, and sustainability policy. He is PI (with Carla Gomes of Cornell) of an 5-year NSF Expedition in Computational Sustainability. He is part of the leadership team for OSU's Ecosystem Informatics programs including the NSF Summer Institute in Ecoinformatics.

Dr. Dietterich (AB Oberlin College 1977; MS University of Illinois 1979; PhD Stanford University 1984) is Professor and Director of Intelligent Systems in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, where he joined the faculty in 1985. In 1987, he was named a Presidential Young Investigator for the NSF. In 1990, he published, with Dr. Jude Shavlik, the book entitled Readings in Machine Learning, and he also served as the Technical Program Co-Chair of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90). From 1992-1998 he held the position of Executive Editor of the journal Machine Learning. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence named him a Fellow in 1994, and the Association for Computing Machinery did the same in 2003. In 2000, he co-founded a new, free electronic journal: The Journal of Machine Learning Research and he is currently a member of the Editorial Board. He served as Technical Program Chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in 2000 and General Chair in 2001. He is Past-President of the International Machine Learning Society, a member of the IMLS Board, and he also serves on the Advisory Board of the NIPS Foundation.

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Yoshiyuki Kotani

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

 

Yoshiyuki Kotani(小谷 善行)
Professor, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Techonology(東京農工大学)
Department of Computer Sciences(情報工学科)
Doctor of Engineering
Former president of Computer Schogi Association(Vise-president now).
Research major: learning and knowledge acqisition in natural languages and games