The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the task of identifying and retrieving information system resources that are relevant to an Information needs, information need. The information need can be specified in the form ...
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 made in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK (ISKO UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (RSC) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG).
The Strix 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
Recipients so far have been: Source
* 1998: Prof
Stephen Robertson
* 1999: Dr
Donna Harman
* 2000: Dr
Martin Porter
* 2001: Prof
Peter Willett
* 2002:
Malcolm Jones
* 2003: Dr
Herbert Van de Sompel
* 2004: Prof
C. J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen
* 2005:
Jack Mills
* 2006:
Stella Dextre Clarke
* 2007:
Mats Lindquist
* 2008: Prof
Kalervo Jarvelin
* 2009:
Carol Ann Peters
* 2010:
Michael Lynch
* 2011: Prof
Alan Smeaton
* 2012:
Doug Cutting and
David Hawking
* 2013: Prof
W. Bruce Croft
* 2014: Dr
Susan Dumais
* 2015: Prof
Peter Ingwersen
* 2016: Prof
Maristella Agosti
* 2017: Prof
Maarten de Rijke
* 2018: Prof
Pia Borlund
* 2019: Prof
Ingemar J. Cox
* 2020: Prof
Ian Ruthven
* 2021: no award made
* 2022: Prof
Iadh Ounis and Dr
Ryen W. White
* 2023: Prof Martin White
* 2024: Prof Nicola Ferro
Since 2014, the winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award is giving the Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture in each year. Annual lectures so far:
* 2015: Dr
Susan Dumais on "Understanding and Improving Search using Large-Scale Behavioural Data"
* 2016: Prof
Peter Ingwersen on "Context in Interactive IR"
* 2017: Prof
Maristella Agosti on "Behind the Scenes of Research and Innovation"
* 2018: Prof
Maarten de Rijke will give the fourth annual lecture in this series.
UKeiG is a special interest group of the
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP, pronounced ) is a professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge management, knowledge managers in the United Kingdom.
It was established in 20 ...
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See also
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List of computer science awards
References
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External links
The Tony Kent Strix Award, offered by UKeiGUKeiGCILIP
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