UKeiG, the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK and the
British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group are
pleased to announce this year's winner of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix
Award, which is given in recognition of an outstanding practical
innovation or achievement in the field of information retrieval. The
judging panel has awarded the 2013 UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award to
Professor W. Bruce Croft of the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
Bruce Croft formed the Centre for Intelligent Information Retrieval
(CIIR) in 1991, since when he and his students have worked with more
than 90 industry and government partners on research and technology
projects and have produced more than 900 papers. The CIIR has obtained
more than US$35 million in research funding. Bruce Croft has made major
contributions to most areas of information retrieval, including
pioneering work in clustering, passage retrieval, sentence retrieval,
and distributed search. One of the most important areas of work for
Croft relates to ranking functions and retrieval models, where he has
led the development of one of the major approaches to modeling search:
language modelling. In later years, Croft also led the way in the
development of feature-based ranking functions. Croft and his research
group have also developed a series of search engines: Inquery, the Lemur
toolkit, Indri, and Galago. These search engines are open source and
offer unique capabilities that are not replicated in other research
retrieval platforms source - consequently they are downloaded by
hundreds of researchers world wide. As a consequence of his work, Croft
is one of the most cited researchers in information retrieval.
The UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award is sponsored by ASLIB: The Association
for Information Management and the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical
Information & Computer Applications Group.
A presentation will take place during Internet Librarian International
2013. David Ball (UKeiG) and Doug Veal (Chair of the Strix Award Panel)
will preside over the presentation. They will be joined by
representatives of the UKeiG Tony Kent Strix Award's sponsors.
Further information about the award, as well as a list of past winners,
can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards.
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