{"id":2388,"date":"2024-02-28T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2024-02-28T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:27:11","slug":"munindar-singh-2020-autonomous-agents-research-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/munindar-singh-2020-autonomous-agents-research-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Munindar Singh (2020 Autonomous Agents Research Award)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Munindar Singh is the recipient of the 2020 award. Professor Singh is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. This award acknowledges his extensive contributions to our understanding of social interaction and autonomy in Artificial Intelligence through his seminal work on interaction protocols, norms, and trust in multiagent systems. This work pioneered new approaches to thinking about sociotechnical systems in a formal and verifiable manner. The broad impact of the work has extended far beyond the agent community to encompass concerns in service-oriented computing, software engineering, and distributed computing. In addition, Professor Singh has served the autonomous agents research community in a variety of roles, including as general chair of AAMAS 2005, a charter member of the editorial board of JAAMAS, and an IFAAMAS Board member<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"242\" src=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Munindar.jpg\" alt=\"Munindar Singh\" class=\"wp-image-1097\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Munindar Singh is the recipient of the 2020 award. Professor Singh is the Alumni Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. This award acknowledges his extensive contributions to our understanding of social interaction and autonomy in Artificial Intelligence through his seminal work on interaction protocols, norms, and trust in multiagent systems. This work pioneered new approaches to thinking about sociotechnical systems in a formal and verifiable manner. The broad impact of the work has extended far beyond the agent community to encompass concerns in service-oriented computing, software engineering, and distributed computing. In addition, Professor Singh has served the autonomous agents research community in a variety of roles, including as general chair of AAMAS 2005, a charter member of the editorial board of JAAMAS, and an IFAAMAS Board member<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Munindar Singh (2020 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sigai.acm.org\/main\/2024\/02\/28\/munindar-singh-2020-autonomous-agents-research-award\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Munindar Singh (2020 Autonomous Agents Research Award) - ACM SIGAI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The selection committee for the ACM\/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award is pleased to announce that Professor Munindar Singh is the recipient of the 2020 award. 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