The selection committee for the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Dr. Milind Tambe of the University of Southern California is the recipient of the 2005 award. Dr. Tambe has made significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Tambe made seminal contributions to the theory, applications, and software infrastructure in the area of teamwork, which has become a flourishing research area in multi agent systems. In addition to his substantial research contributions, Dr. Tambe has served the autonomous agents research community, in a variety of ways most recently as the General co-chair of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS2004).
