Tony Kent Strix Award for long-serving professor
PROFESSOR Ingemar J Cox has been named as the 2019 winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award. The annual award recognises sustained contributions in the world of informa- tion retrieval (IR), and Professor Cox’s work has seen him named as the latest recipient. Professor Cox is head of UCL’s Media Futures Research Group and he is also Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. His current work focuses on informa-
tion retrieval and data analytics of online social media, Twitter and query logs. The award is made by CILIP’s UKeiG group in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK, the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group. Former Tony Kent Strix Award winner
Alan Smeaton, Professor of Computing at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University, said: “Ingemar Cox has made a huge contribution to the broad area of information retrieval and specifi- cally to visual IR, over a sustained period of time. His citation record, his publication record, his outputs over more than two decades of research, and the fact that he is still one of our most active researchers in terms of publication, makes him an extremely worthy candidate for the award. “Also worth noting is the variety of his work. He is not known for producing novel research in just one area but across a spectrum of topics from watermarking to IR algorithms and processes, from image search to digital health.” As is traditional with the award, Pro- fessor Cox will now go on to deliver the Strix Memorial Lecture next year. Profes- sor Pia Borlund, who won the 2018 Tony Kent Strix Award, gave the latest lecture
and a full recording of it can be found at
https://bit.ly/2NrSZYt.
From left, David Ball (UKeiG), Professor Ingemar Cox and Doug Veal, Chair of the Tony Kent Strix Award.
January-February 2020
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