14 results for group: lifetime-achievement-winners
2017: James Flynn
The 2017 winner for ISIR's Lifetime Achievement Award was Professor James (Jim) Flynn.
Professor Flynn is a renowned Political Scientist. His work on cognitive ability and IQ incorporates his background in philosophy and political science. He is best known for his discovery that IQ has been increasing across most of the last century in the West. Always ready to improve his, and our, understanding of the causes and consequences of cognitive ability in society, his lifetime award speech addressed the possibility that, while IQ is still rising in the developing world, it may now be declining, especially at the highest levels, in multiple countries in ...
2019: Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski
ISIR awarded Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. Congratulations to them both.
Professors Camilla Benbow and David Lubinski are best known for leading the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). This study is globally unique: five cohorts of intellectually talented youth identified over 25 years (1972-1997) and longitudinally tracked throughout their lifespan. Their work has identified educationally efficacious interventions for meeting the learning needs of gifted youth, which also contributes to their occupational success and ...
2021: Richard Haier
ISIR has awarded Richard Haier the 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence. After obtaining a PhD from Johns Hopkins in 1975 (working in part with Julian Stanley), his was the first study designed to understand the role of brain function – measured with glucose metabolism (using Positron Emission Tomography: PET, in 1988) – during performance of a measure of abstract reasoning. Interestingly, the relationships were inverse, with higher scores being associated with lower glucose metabolism, a finding that became known as the “neural efficiency hypothesis.” He continued work relating both brain ...
2022: Aljoscha Neubauer
Aljoscha Neubauer of the University of Graz has been awarded the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Aljoscha obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, Austria in 1986 and subsequently obtained his venia docendi (habilitation) in 1994 on the topic of intelligence and information processing speed. His experimental and meta-scientific work in this area contributed substantially to the understanding of the efficiency of neural networks.
His background in neuroscience led him to becoming particularly interested in the idea of biological intelligence measurement as a ...