Professor Sheila McIlraith has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She is being recognized for contributions to knowledge representation and its application to automated planning and semantic web services.
Professors Sheila McIlraith, Toniann Pitassi, Associate Professor Anna Goldenberg, Assistant Professors Jakob Foerster, Animesh Garg, Chris Maddison, and Gennady Pekhimenko have been named CIFAR AI Chairs.
Assistant Professor David Liu says 鈥淪urveillance that is orders of magnitude more efficient. So it鈥檚 really important for us to be cognizant of privacy issues 鈥 especially when it comes to public data collection 鈥 because it affects everyone.鈥