In Memoriam: Adele Howe

1541-1672/17/$33.00 © 2017 IEEE 3 Published by the IEEE Computer Society the area. In particular, the challenge was in developing methodologies that would let researchers not just compare each other’s work in a theoretical sense but that allowed different models of systems to be compared to real-world situations. One of the people who recognized this early on and addressed it both in her writings and in her own work as an exemplar was Adele Howe, who passed away in January after a long fi ght with cancer. When I fi rst met Adele, she was a graduate student working on how to create an agent simulation that allowed empirical evaluation of the design decisions being made against performance on a real-world task. An infl uential 1988 article in AI Magazine,1 coauthored with her advisor Paul Cohen, expressed Adele’s approach to research: