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Portrait of Sheila McIlraith
(Image courtesy of Sheila McIlraith)

Sheila McIlraith named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery

, a professor in the department of computer science in the Faculty of Arts & Science, has been named a(ACM).

The ACM 鈥 which also bestows the Turing Award, computer science鈥檚 Nobel Prize 鈥 is the world鈥檚 largest computing society. Fellows are recognized for their contributions toward 鈥渢he technologies that define the digital age鈥 and represent the top one per cent of the organization鈥檚 membership.

McIlraith鈥檚 research is in the area of artificial intelligence where she studies mathematical principles and computational techniques that govern deliberative reasoning tasks. She is being recognized for contributions to knowledge representation and its application to automated planning and semantic web services.

鈥淚t's a tremendous honour to be recognized by such an esteemed organization,鈥 McIlraith said. 鈥淚'm thankful for the intellectual community at the 重口味SM, and for the support for basic research in Canada. They have given me and my students the freedom to pursue fundamental questions in artificial intelligence.鈥

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