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UKeiG is delighted to announce this year's winner of the UKeiG Tony Kent
Strix Award.
Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing, Dublin City
University is a worthy winner of this prestigious award with sustained
contributions to the field of natural language processing techniques for
textual information retrieval as well as to the indexing and retrieval
of image, audio and video data. He now leads a research team at the
University of 40 researchers working in areas including life-logging,
video analysis, summarization and search, data aggregation in
environmental sensor networks, collaborative search techniques, data
fusion from sensor networks and using sensors in media applications. He
was founding director for the Centre for Digital Video Processing, a
world-leading research centre for video processing and retrieval.
Professor Smeaton was also the founding coordinator of TRECVid, which
started as an independent evaluation exercise of the Text REtrieval
Conference (TREC) in 2001 - an initiative that has clearly been
instrumental to the progress of the field of digital video retrieval.
The presentation of the 'Owl' Trophy and a certificate will take place
before the coffee break on Monday 24th October at the Enterprise Search
Europe event at the Hilton London Olympia. Martin White (UKeiG Chair),
Doug Veal (Chair of the Strix Award Panel) and David Hawking, the
Keynote Speaker for the opening day, will preside over the presentation.
They will be joined by representatives of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix
Award's two sponsors: ASLIB and the Chemical Information and Computer
Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Further information about the award, as well as a list of winners, can
be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards.
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