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Karen Spark Jones Award 2020 and Lecture

By Martin White on 24th April 2021

The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS created an award in 2008 to commemorate the achievements of Karen Spärck Jones. Karen was Professor Emerita of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge and one of the most remarkable and influential women in computer science.

The winner of the 2020 Award was Ahmed Hassan Awadallah,  Principal Research Manager at Microsoft AI Research in Redmond, WA. Ahmed gave the Lecture associated with the Award at ECIR 2021

About Martin White
Martin White

Martin is an information scientist and the author of Making Search Work and Enterprise Search. He has been involved with optimising search applications since the mid-1970s and has worked on search projects in both Europe and North America. Since 2002 he has been a Visiting Professor at the Information School, University of Sheffield and is currently working on developing new approaches to search evaluation.

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