These two prizes, sponsored by KurzweilAI.net for the Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10, Lugano, Switzerland, March 5-8 2010), will honour both the Best AGI Paper and the Best AGI Idea of the conference.  Each prize is worth $1000.

Kurzweil Best AGI Paper 2010

The Kurzweil Best AGI Paper 2010 prize is given, as in previous years, in recognition of exceptional research in the field of artificial general intelligence (AGI).

• Conference Chair Marcus Hutter and other selected members of the Organizing and Program Committees will select three finalists.
• Ray Kurzweil will select the winning paper to receive the cash prize.

2009’s Winner, Best AGI Paper

Combining Analytical and Evolutionary Inductive Programming, by Neil Crossley, Emanuel Kitzelmann, Martin Hofmann and Ute Schmid, Faculty of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, University of Bamberg, Germany

See the 2009 conference page for more information.

Kurzweil Best AGI Idea 2010

The Kurzweil Best AGI Idea 2010 prize will be given, for the very first time, to the paper presenting the most creative, innovative, interesting, and scientifically plausible idea about achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI).

• Conference Chair Marcus Hutter and other selected members of the Organizing and Program Committees will select three finalists.
• Ray Kurzweil will select the winning paper to receive the cash prize.