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240:(AAAI) in 1984 (two), 1992, and 2006, and two other papers won similar awards at other conferences. In 2004, one of the 1984 papers was awarded the Classic Paper award of the AAAI, and the other was given an honourable mention. In 2006, a paper written in 1990 was given the inaugural Influential Paper Award by the International Foundation of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. 218:. On the representation side, he has worked on the formalization of a number of concepts pertaining to artificial and natural agents including belief, goals, intentions, ability, and the interaction between knowledge, perception and action. On the reasoning side, his research mainly concerns how 267:
Levesque was elected to the Executive Council of the AAAI, was a co-founder of the International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, and is on the editorial board of five journals, including the journal
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for 1990–91. He is a founding Fellow of the AAAI and was a Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research from 1984 to 1995. In 2006, Levesque was elected to the
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Hector Levesque has published over 60 research papers, and is the co-author of several books. Four of these papers have won best paper awards of the
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during AAAI Spring Symposium. The idea was written in his article "The Winograd Schemas Challenge" along with collaborators Ernest Davis from
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Thirteenth International Conference on the Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
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Logical foundations for cognitive agents : contributions in honor of Ray Reiter
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In 2011, Hector Levesque proposed a new way to test artificial intelligence called
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Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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Levesque, Hector; Davis, Ernest; Morgenstern, Leora (2012-05-17).
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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in 1975, 1977, and 1981, respectively. His PhD advisor was
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International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Common sense, the Turing test, and the quest for real AI
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Machines like us : toward AI with common sense
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. 745:Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada 717: 427:Knowledge representation and reasoning 212:knowledge representation and reasoning 154:. His research concerns incorporating 198:, and then joined the faculty at the 621: 326:Readings in knowledge representation 262: 655:Cheriton School of Computer Science 295:IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 16:Canadian academic and AI researcher 13: 202:where he has remained since 1984. 14: 771: 280:IJCAI Computers and Thought Award 247:as a possible alternative of the 677:"The Winograd Schema Challenge" 316: 293:In 2013, Levesque received the 210:His research is in the area of 687: 668: 615: 1: 608: 750:Canadian computer scientists 725:University of Toronto alumni 559:. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 516:. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 510:Levesque, Hector J. (2017). 467:Levesque, Hector J. (2012). 398:The logic of knowledge bases 165: 7: 596: 255:and Leora Morgenstern from 150:academic and researcher in 78:Natural language processing 32:1951 (age 72–73) 10: 776: 297:; and in 2020, along with 245:Winograd Schemas Challenge 160:Winograd Schemas Challenge 624:"Thinking as Computation" 603:Winograd schema challenge 329:. Los Altos, California. 224:computationally tractable 205: 119: 115: 105: 93: 83: 73: 66: 61:Winograd schema challenge 56: 46: 36: 28: 21: 651:"DLS - Hector Levesque" 288:Royal Society of Canada 271:Artificial Intelligence 226:, including the use of 216:artificial intelligence 152:artificial intelligence 473:. Cambridge, MA, USA. 144:Hector Joseph Levesque 23:Hector Joseph Levesque 200:University of Toronto 184:University of Toronto 156:commonsense reasoning 88:University of Toronto 51:University of Toronto 622:Levesque, Hector J. 372:. 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Canadian
University of Toronto
Winograd schema challenge
Natural language processing
University of Toronto
Doctoral advisor
John Mylopoulos
Bart Selman
www.cs.toronto.edu/~hector/
Canadian
artificial intelligence
commonsense reasoning
Winograd Schemas Challenge
BSc
MSc
PhD
University of Toronto
John Mylopoulos
Fairchild
Palo Alto
University of Toronto
knowledge representation and reasoning
artificial intelligence
automated reasoning
computationally tractable
greedy
local search
American Association of Artificial Intelligence
Winograd Schemas Challenge
Turing test

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