Distinguished Service Award 2012

Professor Erik Sandewall (1945 - 2024)

After studies at Uppsala University, the Stanford AI laboratory, and visiting associate at the MIT AI laboratory, Erik Sandewall became Sweden’s first professor in computer science in 1975. In 1983, he founded the Computer Science Department at Linköping University. He was also one of the founders of IJCAI, the International Joint Conference on AI, where he represented Europe. He is most known for his research contributions in non-monotonic reasoning, reasoning about action and change, and cognitive robotics.
He was awarded the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award in 2016, the EurAI Distinguished Service Award in 2012 and has been a EurAI Fellow since 1999, when the program was initiated.

Erik was a uniquely creative, visionary and internationally renowned researcher. In addition to important research contributions in computer science and artificial intelligence, and his service to the global AI community, he was also instrumental in the development of higher education in computer science at Linköping University and in Sweden.

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