Katia Sycara of Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded the ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award for 2002. Dr. Sycara has made significant contributions to a number of subareas of agent research, including agent architectures, middle agents, and multi-agent negotiation. She has played a major role in organizing the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, and the International Conferences on Autonomous Agents. In recognition of this award, Dr. Sycara gave an address at the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, in Bologna, Italy, July 17-19, 2002. The title of her presentation was “Agents Supporting Humans and Organizations in Open, Dynamic Environments.”
