The Tony Kent Strix Award is given in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the field of information retrieval
For more information on the Award and how to nominate visit the award pages on the UKeIG website.
The Tony Kent Strix Award
The Tony Kent Strix Award is made to an individual or group who have made an outstanding contribution to information retrieval in one of the following ways:
- development of, or significant improvement in, mechanisms for the retrieval of information, either generally or in a specialised field
- development of, or significant improvement in, accessibility to an information service
- a sustained contribution over a period of years to the field of information retrieval
This Award is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists, who died in 1997. Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science and information services in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry.
The name Strix was chosen both to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and the name of one of the last and most successful information retrieval packages he created.