UMUAI James Chen Annual Award.
2009
Mingyu Feng, Neil Hefferman, and Kenneth Koedinger for their paper
"Addressing the assessment challenge with an online system that tutors as it assesses" published in Volume 19, Number 3, pp. 243-266, 2009
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-009-9063-7
2008
H. Cramer, V. Evers, S. Ramlal, M. van Someren, L. Rutledge, N. Stash, L. Aroyo and B. Wielinga for their paper
"The Effects of Transparency on Trust in and Acceptance of a Content-based Art Recommender" published in Volume 18, Number 5, 2008
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-008-9051-3
2007
O. Stock, M. Zancanaro, P. Busetta, C. Callaway, A. Krüger, M. Kruppa, T. Kuflik, E. Not, C. Rocchi for their paper
"Adaptive, Intelligent Presentation of Information for the Museum Visitor in PEACH" published in Volume 17, Number 3, 2007
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-007-9029-6
2006
Stephanie Elzer, Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry and James Hoffman for their paper
"A Model of Perceptual Task Effort for Bar Charts and its Role in Recognizing Intention" published in UMUAI, Volume 16, Number 1 / March, 2006
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11257-006-9002-9
2005
2004
Anton Leuski and James Allan for their paper
"Interactive Information Retrieval Using Clustering and Spatial Proximity" which appeared in UMUAI 14(2-3), pp. 259-288, June 2004
2003
Justine Cassell and Timothy Bickmore for their paper
"Negotiated Collusion: Modeling Social Language and its Relationship Effects in Intelligent Agents"
which appeared in UMUAI Vol. 13(1+2), 2003, pp. 89-132
2002
Cristina Conati, Abigail Gertner, Kurt VanLehn for their paper
"Using Bayesian Networks to Manage Uncertainty in Student Modeling"
which appeared in UMUAI 12(4), 2002
Dr. James Rong Chen, a research computer scientist in Computational Sciences Division for eight years, has been working in the area of personalized information retrieval and published two highly quoted papers in UMUAI. He died May 1st, 2001 in an automobile accident on his way home from work. He is survived by his wife, Lily Chang, his sisters Yiko, Ida, Eva, Gina and Nina, and his mother and father, Grace and Y.K. Jim was 45.
Jim was born on September 11th, 1955, in Taipei, Taiwan. He received a B.S. in Physics from the National Tsing Hua University, 1977, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 1981 and a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego in 1993. He had received awards for both his teaching and research in Computer Science.
Jim worked at Signetics, FMC Ordnance, Apple Computer and IBM before joining NASA in 1993. At Ames, he conducted research on machine learning, digital libraries, and information management, most recently as part of the ScienceDesk Project. He was also the principal investigator for the DIAMS system, an agent-based collaborative information management system. Outside of work, Jim was an active member of the Bay Area Yan Xin Qigong Society.
The Chen family has donated funds to establish three awards in commemoration of James R. Chen:
The James Chen Award for the best annual UMUAI journal article. The prize carries a cash reward of $1000.
The James Chen Award for for the best student paper at the UMAP conference. It carries a cash reward of $1000.