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Remember to book for the first in the series of FREE annual lectures linked with the prestigious Tony Kent Strix Award for information retrieval. Each year the previous year's winner will be invited to talk and answer questions about their research. These lectures should be of interest to all archive, records, information or knowledge managers, developers and researchers concerned with search and the retrieval of information. For 2015, Dr Susan T Dumais of Microsoft Research will be the speaker at the Geological Society in London on the afternoon of Friday November 6th. The talk will be followed by a discussion and some time for refreshments and networking. Dr Dumais is Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director as well as Manager of the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group at Microsoft Research in the United States. For over 30 years, she has been a well-respected leading light in information retrieval - both in terms of research and practice - with sustained contributions that are both innovative and practical. Perhaps her most significant contribution is the co-invention of Latent Semantic Analysis and Indexing (LSI); a key feature of which is its ability to extract the latent conceptual structure from a large collection of texts by analyzing the associations between terms that occur in similar contexts, thus enabling a search engine to retrieve using concepts rather than keywords. Bookings can be made at: <http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/tony-kent-strix-annual-lecture> http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/tony-kent-strix-annual-lecture. This year there will also be a talk and a demonstration of one of Tony Kent’s information retrieval packages by Jan Wyllie: Remembering Futures Past, Tony Kent and the Lost Vision of a Boolean Universe The Tony Kent Strix Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, 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 and, as honoured in this Award, an outstanding contribution to the design of retrieval software. The Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval in its widest sense. Each year a call for nominations is published in the early summer and the presentation of the award is made at Internet Librarian International/Enterprise Search Europe. The Tony Kent Strix Award is managed by UKeiG (a Special Interest Group of CILIP the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) in partnership with the Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC CICAG); the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK Chapter (ISKO UK) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG). The Annual Lecture series is sponsored by Google. _______________________________________ Chris Armstrong - [log in to unmask] Awards & Admin for UKeiG - UK eInformation Group www.ukeig.org.uk Follow us on Twitter - @ukeig _________________________ UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP Registered Charity Number 313014