Tony Kent Strix award
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Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval
and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS), who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry. The name 'Strix' was chosen to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and as the name of the last and most successful information retrieval packages that he created.
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval that meets one of the following criteria:
Recipients so far have been:
UKeiG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
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UKeiG
The UK eInformation Group is a professional body for all information professionals, users and developers of electronic information resources. Its aims are to promote and advance the effective exploitation and management of electronic information in all formats...
Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval
Information retrieval
Information retrieval is the area of study concerned with searching for documents, for information within documents, and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching structured storage, relational databases, and the World Wide Web...
and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS), who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry. The name 'Strix' was chosen to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and as the name of the last and most successful information retrieval packages that he created.
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval that meets one of the following criteria:
- a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or experimental understanding of the information retrieval process;
- development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms, a product or service for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field;
- development of, or significant improvement in, ease of access to an information service;
- a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of information retrieval; for example, by running an information service or by contributing at national or international level to organisations active in the field.
Recipients so far have been:
- 1998: Prof Stephen Robertson
- 1999: Dr Donna Harman
- 2000: Dr Martin PorterMartin PorterThis article is about Dr. Martin F. Porter the inventor of the Porter Stemmer and the Snowball programming framework, for Martin Porter the musician, see Martin Porter Dr. Martin F...
- 2001: Prof Peter WillettPeter WillettPeter Willett obtained an Honors degree in Chemistry from Exeter College, Oxford in 1975 and then went to the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield where he obtained an MSc in Information Studies....
- 2002: Malcolm Jones
- 2003: Dr Herbert Van de SompelHerbert van de SompelHerbert Van de Sompel is a Belgian librarian and computer scientist, most known for his role in the development of the Open Archives Initiative and standards such as OpenURL, Object Reuse and Exchange, and the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting....
- 2004: Prof C. J. 'Keith' van RijsbergenC. J. van RijsbergenC. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group based at the University of Glasgow...
- 2005: Jack Mills
- 2006: Stella Dextre Clarke
- 2007: Mats Lindquist
- 2008: Kalervo Jarvelin
- 2009: Carol Ann Peters
- 2010: Michael LynchMichael Lynch (researcher)Michael Felix Lynch BSc, PhD, RChem, FInstInfSc, MBCS is a Professor Emeritus in the Information School of the University of Sheffield, England, his main research having been in chemoinformatics. Michael Lynch obtained B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from University College, Dublin in 1954...
- 2011: Prof Alan SmeatonAlan SmeatonProfessor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust...
UKeiG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a professional body representing librarians and other information professionals in the United Kingdom.-History:...
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