August 23, 2010
Jivko Sinapov, Computer Science Ph.D. candidate with a co-major in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), is the recipient of a Best Student Paper Award at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) for his paper "The Odd One Out Task: Toward an Intelligence Test for Robots," co-authored by his advisor, Dr. Alexander Stoytchev (ECpE). The 9th IEEE ICDL (held August 18-21, 2010) brought together leading researchers in robotics, machine learning, neuroscience, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural organisms and robots.