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TONY KENT STRIX AWARD
Nominations for the 2002 Award are now invited, and should be sent,
with full supporting documentation to:
Alan Gilchrist,
Editor, Journal of Information Science,
32 Friar Road,
Brighton BN1 6NH.
UK
The closing date for nominations is Friday 16th June.
Notes
The Strix Award is in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the
Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony made a
major contribution to the development of information science and
information services in the UK and internationally, particularly in the
field of chemistry.
The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding practical
innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. This
could take the form of an application or service, or an overall
appreciation of past achievements from which significant advances have
emanated. The Award is open to individuals or groups from anywhere in
the world.
Nominations will be judged by a panel of experts, and the statuette of
an owl will be presented to the winner in September.
The name Strix was chosen both to reflect Tony's interest in
ornithology, and the name of one of the last and most successful
information retrieval packages which he created.
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