The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval and is presented in memory of Dr. Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists (IIS), 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. The name 'Strix' was chosen to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and as the name of the last and most successful information retrieval packages that he created. The Award is made in partnership with the International Society for Knowledge Organisation UK (ISKO UK), the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (RSC) and the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG). The Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval that meets one of the following criteria:
a major and/or sustained contribution to the theoretical or experimental understanding of the information retrieval process; development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms, a product or service for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field; development of, or significant improvement in, ease of access to an information service; a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of information retrieval; for example, by running an information service or by contributing at national or international level to organisations active in the field.
Recipients Recipients so far have been: Source
1998: Prof Stephen Robertson 1999: Dr Donna Harman 2000: Dr Martin Porter 2001: Prof Peter Willett 2002: Malcolm Jones 2003: Dr Herbert Van de Sompel 2004: Prof C. J. 'Keith' van Rijsbergen 2005: Jack Mills 2006: Stella Dextre Clarke 2007: Mats Lindquist 2008: Prof Kalervo Jarvelin 2009: Carol Ann Peters 2010: Michael Lynch 2011: Prof Alan Smeaton 2012: Doug Cutting and David Hawking 2013: Prof W. Bruce Croft 2014: Dr Susan Dumais 2015: Prof Peter Ingwersen 2016: Prof Maristella Agosti 2017: Prof Maarten de Rijke 2018: Prof Pia Borlund 2019: Prof Ingemar J. Cox 2020: Prof Ian Ruthven 2021: no award made 2022: Prof Iadh Ounis and Dr Ryen W. White 2023: Prof Martin White 2024: Prof Nicola Ferro 2025: Prof Noriko Kando Since 2014, the winner of the Tony Kent Strix Award is giving the Tony Kent Strix Annual Lecture in each year. Annual lectures so far:
2015: Dr Susan Dumais on "Understanding and Improving Search using Large-Scale Behavioural Data" 2016: Prof Peter Ingwersen on "Context in Interactive IR" 2017: Prof Maristella Agosti on "Behind the Scenes of Research and Innovation" 2018: Prof Maarten de Rijke will give the fourth annual lecture in this series. UKeiG is a special interest group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
See also List of computer science awards
References
External links The Tony Kent Strix Award, offered by UKeiG UKeiG CILIP