Chronological honorees and lectures

• 1983 - Gerard Salton
  Gerard Salton
  Gerard Salton , also known as Gerry Salton, was a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time...
  
  , Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
   : "About the future of automatic information retrieval."
• 1988 - Karen Spärck Jones
  Karen Spärck Jones
  Karen Spärck Jones FBA was a British computer scientist.Karen Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian who moved to Britain during World War II...
  
  , University of Cambridge
  University of Cambridge
  The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
  
   : "A look back and a look forward."
• 1991 - Cyril Cleverdon
  Cyril Cleverdon
  Cyril Cleverdon was a British librarian and computer scientist who is best known for his work on the evaluation of information retrieval systems....
  
  , Cranfield Institute of Technology : "The significance of the Cranfield tests on index languages."
• 1994 - William S. Cooper, University of California, Berkeley
  University of California, Berkeley
  The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
  
   : "The formalism of probability theory in IR: a foundation or an encumbrance?"
• 1997 - Tefko Saracevic, Rutgers University
  Rutgers University
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
  
   : "Users lost (summary): reflections on the past, future, and limits of information science."
• 2000 - Stephen E. Robertson
  Stephen Robertson (computer scientist)
  Stephen Robertson is a British computer scientist. He is well known for his work on information retrieval.After completing his undergraduate degree in mathematics at Cambridge University, he took an MS at City University, and then worked for ASLIB. He then studied for his PhD at University College...
  
  , City University London
  City University, London
  City University London , is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1894 as the Northampton Institute and became a university in 1966, when it adopted its present name....
  
   : "On theoretical argument in information retrieval."
  For ... "Thirty years of significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. Of special importance are the theoretical and empirical contributions to the development, refinement, and evaluation of probabilistic models of information retrieval."
• 2003 - W. Bruce Croft
  W. Bruce Croft
  W. Bruce Croft is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst whose work focuses on information retrieval....
  
  , University of Massachusetts, Amherst : "Information retrieval and computer science: an evolving relationship."
  For ... "More than twenty years of significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. His contributions to the theoretical development and practical use of Bayesian inference networks and language modelling for retrieval, and to their evaluation through extensive experiment and application, are particularly important. The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval which he founded illustrates the strong synergies between fundamental research and its application to a wide range of practical information management problems."
• 2006 - C. J. van Rijsbergen
  C. J. van Rijsbergen
  C. J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen is a professor of computer science and the leader of the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group based at the University of Glasgow...
  
  , University of Glasgow
  University of Glasgow
  The University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's four ancient universities. Located in Glasgow, the university was founded in 1451 and is presently one of seventeen British higher education institutions ranked amongst the top 100 of the...
  
   : "Quantum haystacks."
• 2009 - Susan Dumais
  Susan Dumais
  Susan Dumais is a Principal Researcher in the Context, Learning, and User Experience for Search Group of Microsoft Research and an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington Information School....
  
  , Microsoft Research
  Microsoft Research
  Microsoft Research is the research division of Microsoft created in 1991 for developing various computer science ideas and integrating them into Microsoft products. It currently employs Turing Award winners C.A.R. Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Charles P...
  
  : "An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Information Retrieval."

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