14th January 2016: Awards.AI is pleased to announce the winners of the first annual achievement awards for Artificial Intelligence for 2015. These will be annual awards to celebrate the achievements of the AI community in developing new algorithms, products and services across a number of different categories and industries. These awards were open for anyone to vote across all ten categories on our website.
We would like to thank everyone who voted as we had a fantastic response.
Without further delay we are now pleased to announce the winners across all ten categories of the first AI Awards;
1) Best AI Startup
Winner of the Best AI Startup for 2015 is Cortical (cortical.io)
Runner Up of the Best AI Startup for 2015 is Meshfire (meshfire.com)
2) Best Consumer Application of AI
Winner of the Best Consumer Application of AI for 2015 is Next IT and its Amtrak implementation (http://www.nextit.com/case-studies/amtrak/)
3) Best AI in the Enterprise
Winner of the Best AI in the Enterprise for 2015 is Datamind (http://www.datamind.london)
4) Best use of AI in Robotics
Winner of the Best use of AI in Robotics for 2015 is Hanson Robotics (http://www.hansonrobotics.com)
Runner Up for the Best use of AI in Robotics for 2015 is Berkeley BRETT
5) Best use of AI in Vision
Winner of the Best use of AI in Vision for 2015 is Vicarious (vicarious.com)
Runner Up for Best use of AI in Vision is Clarifai (clarifai.com)
6) Best use of AI in Education
Winner of the Best use of AI in Education for 2015 is Elemental Path (elementalpath.com)
7) Best use of AI in FinTech
Winner of the Best use of AI in FinTech for 2015 is FinVR (finvr.com)
8) AI Person of the Year
Winner of the AI Person of the Year for 2015 is Jeff Hawkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins)
9) AI Company of the Year
Winner of the AI Company of the Year for 2015 is Numenta (numenta.com)
10) AI Application of the Year
Winner of the AI Application of the Year for 2015 is Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing, or NuPIC. (http://numenta.org)
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