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The Turing Center is a multidisciplinary research center atthe University of Washington, investigating problems at the crossroadsof natural language processing, data mining, Web search, and theSemantic Web. The Center was established in May 2005 with a multi-milliondollar gift from the Utilika Foundation, which is augmented by federal research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity as well as support from Google and the Washington Research Foundation. The Center's current federal research support comes from NSF grants IIS-0803481, IIS-0535284 and IIS-0312988, ONR grants N00014-08-1-0431 and N00014-05-1-0185, and DARPA contracts FA8750-09-C-0179 and NBCHD030010. MissionOur mission is to advance the philosophy, science, and technology ofpan-lingual communication and collaboration among human and artificialagents. Paul Allen hires Oren Etzioni for new AI Institute Oren Etzioni, GeekWire's 2013 Geek of the Year Oren Etzioni featured in The New York Times Tom Lin received a Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges award Oren Etzioni is GeekWire's Geek of the Week Nature article Search needs a shake-up Web search is ready for a shakeup, says Turing Center Director Hoifung Poon and Pedro Domingos received Best Paper Award at UAI '11 for Sum-Product Networks: A New Deep Architecture Jonathan Berant received Best Student Paper Award at ACL '11 for Global Learning of Typed Entailment Rules Janara Christensen awarded a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship ReVerb Open Information Extraction Software released as open source Unsupervised named-entity extraction from the Web: An experimental study most cited AIJ article in the last 5 years UW CSE Ph.D. alum Doug Downey is 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow Oren Etzioni awarded a Washington Research Foundation Endowed Entrepreneurship Professorship in Computer Science & Engineering, summer 2009 Eytan Adar received Best Student Paper Award at WSDM '09 for The Web Changes Everything: Understanding the Dynamics of Web Content Alan Ritter received Best Student Paper Award at IUI '09 for Learning to Generalize for Complex Selection Tasks Alan Ritter and Tom Lin awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships Michael Skinner wins TopCoder Competition Fei Wu won the best paper prize at CIKM '07 for Automatically Semantifying Wikipedia Michele Banko received Best Student Paper Award at K-CAP '07 for Strategies for Lifelong Knowledge Extraction from the Web Press release announcing the launch of PanImages Oren Etzioni received the 2007 Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award Stefan Schoenmackers won the Bob Bandes Memorial Award for Excellence in Teachingfor 2006-2007 Emily Bender awarded an NSF CAREER Grant for the Grammar Matrixproject Michele Banko awarded a Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Doug Downey awarded a Microsoft Research Graduate Fellowship Distinguished Paper Award atIJCAI 2005 awarded to Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, and Stephen Soderland

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