Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

Every year IFAAMAS gives out an award for the best agents related dissertation. In 2008, the award went to Radu Jurca for the dissertation entitled "Truthful Reputation Mechanisms for Online Systems". Radu went to Google (Switzerland) after finishing. Vincent Conitzer won it the year before for a thesis entitled " Computational Aspects of Preference Aggregation." Vince is now a tenure track Professor at Duke in the U.S.. (This information took some serious googling to find out, which it shouldn't have! IFAAMAS get your act together and publicize this award.)

Victor Lesser is considered the Great Grandfather of the agents field -- Sandip Sen's students are academic great grandchildren of Prof. Lesser. It won't be long until Lesser is a Great Great Grandfather (see http://aigp.eecs.umich.edu/)

To submit nominations for this years award:

Nominations are invited for the 2008 Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award sponsored by IFAAMAS, the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (http://www.ifaamas.org).

This award includes a certificate signed by the IFAAMAS Chair and 1500EUR. Eligible doctoral dissertations are those defended between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2008 in the area of Autonomous Agents or Multiagent Systems.

For more detail see here.