Michael Wooldridge Awarded 2021 AAAI Outstanding Educator Award
Posted: 12th January 2021
Professor Michael Wooldridge has been named as the recipient of the 2021 Outstanding Educator Award by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the international membership organisation for Artificial Intelligence.
The award is issued to a person (or group of people) who has made major contributions to AI education that provide long-lasting benefits to the AI community.
Michael has been given the award for 'outstanding global leadership in AI education and public awareness, including publishing broadly adopted books and textbooks, establishing the European Agent Systems Summer School, and inspiring public dialogue on AI andmulti-agent systems'.
Michael will accept the award with a plenary talk at the AAAI conference, which this year will be virtual. The talk is entitled 'Talking to the Public about AI', and will relate to his experience of public engagement with AI.