Dr. Ángel F. Kuri, a computer science professor at ITAM, received first place in the Best Paper Award category at the 2014 Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI). His paper was titled “The Best Neural Network Architecture.”

ITAM is proud of this distinguished academic’s work and collaboration and congratulates him for the success of his published work. The top papers were chosen on the basis of the paper’s overall quality, significance, and originality of the reported results. The MICAI is an important international scientific forum and the principal event in the national AI community. The organization publishes high quality work in all AI areas.

Kuri’s paper was among 350 submitted by 823 authors from the following 46 nations: Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States and the Virgin Islands.

Of the 350 papers, 87 were chosen for publication in two volumes after being peer-reviewed, a task that was carried out by the international Program Committee. The acceptance rate was 24.8 percent.

The international Program Committee consisted of 201 experts from 34 countries: Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, and USA.

Other authors who received top honors were:

Second place: “Intelligent Control of Induction Motor-Based Comparative Study: Analysis of Two Topologies,” by Moulay Rachid Douiri, El Batoul Mabrouki, Ouissam Belghazi, Mohamed Ferfra and Mohamed Cherkaoui (Morocco).

Third place: “A Fast Scheduling Algorithm for Detection and Localization of Hidden Objects Based on Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks,” by Eugene Levner, Boris Kriheli, Amir Elalouf and Dmitry Tsadikovich (Israel).