UKeiG, in association with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group, is delighted to announce that this year's winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award is Dr Susan T Dumais, Distinguished Scientist and Deputy Managing Director as well as Manager of the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search (CLUES) Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA 98052 USA.

Susan Dumais' research interests include algorithms and interfaces for improved information retrieval, as well as general issues in human-computer interaction. Her current research focuses on gaze-enhanced interaction, the temporal dynamics of information systems, user modeling and personalisation, novel interfaces for interactive retrieval, and search evaluation. She has has published widely in the fields of information science, human-computer interaction and cognitive science. Dr. Dumais has had incredible practical influence within Microsoft where she is widely regarded as a thought leader for tackling difficult technical challenges in search and retrieval. 

Dr. Dumais is a worthy recipient of the 2014 Tony Kent Strix award. 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. Her significant impact has a range of theoretical, systems, and empirical bases. Dr. Dumais has developed novel algorithms to help people to find, use, and make sense of information. Her research at the intersection of human computer interaction and information retrieval has broad applications for both understanding and improving searching and browsing from the Internet to the desktop. Dr. Dumais has made a number of significant contributions to theory, experimentation, and practice in information retrieval. Perhaps her most significant contribution to date 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 analysing the associations between terms that occur in similar contexts, thus enabling a search engine to retrieve using concepts rather than keywords.

The Tony Kent Strix Award is sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information & Computer Applications Group.
A presentation will take place during Internet Librarian International 2014. 
Further information about the award, as well as a list of past winners, can be found at http://www.ukeig.org.uk/awards. 

Note: 
UKeiG, the UK eInformation Group is a Special Interest Group of CILIP, the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals. 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.

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