Bonnie Dorr and Lise Getoor Inducted as AAAI Fellows

July 29, 2013
photo of Professors Bonnie Dorr (left) and Lise Getoor (right) pose with the 2013 AAAI Fellows

Professors Bonnie Dorr (left) and Lise Getoor (right) pose with the 2013 AAAI Fellows

Professors Bonnie Dorr and Lise Getoor were honored for their election as AAAI Fellows at an awards dinner held on July 16th in Bellevue, WA.

Dorr was recognized for her "significant contributions to natural language understanding and representation, and development of the widely recognized methods for interlingual machine translation". Getoor was recognized for her "her significant contributions to methods which combine probabilistic and logical representations in machine learning, knowledge discovery, graph mining, network analysis, and database systems".

CS Ph.D. alumnus Qiang Yang ('89) was elected a Fellow, as well.