C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen FREng (Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen; born 1943) is a professor of

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at the

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, where he founded the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group. He is one of the founders of modern

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and the author of the seminal monograph ''Information Retrieval'' and of the textbook ''The Geometry of Information Retrieval''. He was born in Rotterdam, and educated in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Namibia and Australia. His first degree is in mathematics from the

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, and in 1972 he completed a PhD in computer science at the

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. He spent three years lecturing in information retrieval and artificial intelligence at

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before returning to

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to hold a

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Information Research Fellowship. In 1980 he was appointed to the chair of computer science at

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; from there he moved in 1986 to

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. He chaired the Scientific Board of the Information Retrieval Facility from 2007 to 2012.

Awards and honors

In 2003 he was inducted as a Fellow of the

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. In 2004 he was awarded the

Tony Kent Strix award The UKeiG 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 ma ...

. In 2004 he was appointed a

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of the

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. In 2006, he was awarded the Gerard Salton Award for ''Quantum haystacks''. In 2009, he was made an honorary professor at the

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C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen - The University of GlasgowGlasgow Information Retrieval GroupInformation Retrieval Facility

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 15 July 2009 (video)
1943 births Living people Dutch computer scientists 2003 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Scientists from Rotterdam University of Western Australia alumni Information retrieval researchers {{compu-scientist-stub

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