The winner of the 2001 award is Tuomas Sandholm, of Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sandholm has conducted an intensive research program in electronic markets and multi-agent systems, and has also done work in other areas of autonomous agents. The breadth and depth of his contributions over a relatively short period of time are impressive. In addition, he has been an active contributor to the Autonomous Agents community, contributing regularly to the AA conference since its inception. In recognition of this award, Dr. Sandholm presented an invited lecture at the 2001 International Conference on Autonomous Agents. The title of his presentation was “Agents in Combinatorial Markets.”
