Tony Kent Strix Award 2019

Professor Ingemar J. Cox, Department of Computer Science at University College London. Professor Cox is Head of UCL’s Media Futures Research Group and also a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. His current research interests include information retrieval and data analytics of online social media, twitter and query logs. Alan F. Smeaton, Professor of Computing at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin City University and former Strix award winner (2011) commented: ‘Ingemar Cox has made a huge contribution to the broad area of information retrieval and specifically 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.’ The Award was presented by Doug Veal (Strix Chair) and David Ball (UKeiG Chair) on the afternoon of Friday November 29th, 2019 at the Geological Society, Piccadilly, London. Professor Cox presented at the Strix Memorial Lecture in 2020. A recording of Professor Cox's presentation can be seen here. At this year’s event, 2018 Strix award winner, Professor Pia Borlund, Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, delivered the fifth Strix memorial lecture. Within the information retrieval community Borlund is known for her innovative contributions to IR user studies, evaluations and test design. A recording of Professor Borlund’s presentation can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BosRT0sDMvVjPxLCR4dpxuYT9ip-FSWW/view?usp=sharing Dr Andrew Macfarlane, Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design, City, University of London, opened the event with a presentation ‘Sender vs Recipient Orientated Information Systems Revisited.’ A recording of his presentation can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WUjKqyZwzLEJb5sljGzWePCBQDDOTIZg/view?usp=sharing UKeiG is a Special Interest Group of CILIP: the library and information association: https://www.cilip.org.uk/

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