Nominated for the Presidential Award for Innovation
Last morning I got woken by a very nice call. It was the Icelandic Student Innovation Fund announcing that the project I did last summer, called Creativity in Artificially Intelligent Agents, has been nominated for a Presidential Award for Innovation. Having just woken up (I’m pretty much non-functional before my cup of coffee) my mind went blank and at first all I could utter was “Noh” — which is the Icelandic equivalent of “Oh, that’s great”. It’s great to receive recognition for doing things you’re passionate about.
So the 28th of February I’ll be meeting with the president of Iceland at the award ceremony. The picture below shows the president of Iceland (Ólafur R. Grímsson) and Bill Clinton meeting at the White House in 1997 during Clinton’s presidency.
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urbanread
What was the project about ? It would be nice to learn from you.
Feb 10th, 2007
hthth
Thanks for your interest. I’m planning on posting a short blurb on it soon.
Feb 12th, 2007
Headbang8
Congratulations!
Feb 13th, 2007
John Pozadzides
Seriously, this is kick ass! Congrats! I’ll be looking forward to reading more about the project as well…
I’m also wondering if you’ve got anything special planned to say to the President when you meet him?
John
Feb 15th, 2007
Briana Franco
Awesome! Very happy for you.
Feb 21st, 2007
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