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•  McCormick News Three Northwestern Engineering Professors Named AAAS Fellows
  
  
•   CS Department news (2/20/2020)Kezhen Chen and Ken Forbus Win Best Paper Award at KR2ML Workshop at NeurIPS 2019
  
  
•   McCormick News Article (January 17, 2018). Ken Forbus Receives Inaugural Herbert A. Simon Prize. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  
  
•   McCormick News Article (September 24, 2015). Conference Highlights Importance of Spatial Learning in Undergraduate STEM Education. Retrieved September 28, 2015.
  
  
•   Announcement of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department. Ken Forbus Speaks at Microsoft Research on Bespoke Data. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
  

•   Newsletter of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department. Forbus & Hinrichs Develop Human-like Learning Program for Computers. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  
  
•   Newsletter of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department. Ken Forbus gives invited talk at Google on cognitive architecture. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
  
  
•   Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering Highlights (April 2, 2013). Forbus describes CogSketch in keynote address. Retrieved April 8, 2013. Ken Forbus highlighted CogSketch in his keynote address in Los Angeles. To read more about CogSketch, please go to our CogSketch page.  
  
  
•   The Cognitive Science Society has awarded QRG Alumnus Andrew Lovett, Northwestern University, a Robert J. Glushko Dissertation Prize for his 2012 doctoral dissertation: Spatial Routines for Sketches: A Framework for Modeling Spatial Problem Solving. Retrieved April 4, 2013.  
  
  
•   The Graduate School, Northwestern University: Student Research. A write-up on QRG Member Scott Friedman's research. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  
  
•   EECS News (Spring 2012). Ken Forbus, received a certificate awarded by Helmut Schwarz, president of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. A short write-up is available on the Northwestern University, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, website: Forbus lauded at 40th Symposium for Research Award Winners. Retrieved May, 14, 2012:
  
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•   McCormick News Article (November 23, 2011). Ken Forbus Receives Humboldt Research Award From German Foundation. Retrieved December 1, 2011.
  
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•   Forbus, K. D. (October 28, 2011). Towards human-level AI: Companion cognitive systems. Talk given at The School of Informatics and Computing Colloquium Series, Indiana University, Bloomington. Annoucement retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://emails.soic.indiana.edu/calendar/2011_10_Forbus_Ken.pdf.
  
  
•   EECS News (February, 15, 2011). Ken Forbus on WTTW11 Chicago Tonight discussion Watson. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/the-news/585-ken-forbus-on-wttw11-chicago-tonight-today-at-7.html.
  
  
•   Author Spotlight (Winter 2011). A short bio of Kenneth D. Forbus highlighted on-line in WIREs' Cognitive Science section. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://wires.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WiresAuthorSpotlight/id-13.html.