News and Awards
Philosophy’s Tetrad Project Awarded International AI Honor
August 17, 2020 - The Tetrad Automated Causal Discovery Platform was awarded the Super Artificial Intelligence Leader (SAIL) award at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference held in Shanghai in July. The Leader award recognizes fundamental advances in the basic theory, methods, models and platforms of artificial intelligence (AI). Tetrad, developed by Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, Richard Scheines, and Joe Ramsey of Carnegie Mellon University’s Philosophy Department, was one of four projects chosen for a SAIL award from over 800 nominees, including nominations from Amazon, IBM, Microsoft and Google.
Other Awards
- Best Paper Award – 2013 6th International Workshop on Educational Data Mining, Memphis, TN
- Causality in Statistics Education Award – 2012, Richard Scheines and Steven Klepper
- Best Paper Award – 2008 1st International Workshop on Educational Data Mining, Montreal, Canada