Brian Vickery took a look back at the development of information retrieval, and some of the problems it has faced.
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26th June 2008 15:00 - 19:00
Venue
University College London
Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre,
Engineering Faculty,
Roberts Building G06
[Location]
Programme
Three eminent speakers Stephen Robertson, Brian Vickery and Ian Rowlands will address issues that have dominated the information retrieval agenda since the 1950s, and still present challenges and opportunities for the future. Questions from the audience will be encouraged and ample discussion time will be provided.
Speakers & Abstracts
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Brian Vickery
Issues in information retrieval
Talk
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Stephen Robertson
The state of information retrieval: a researcher's view
Talk
In his talk, Stephen gave a non-technical overview of some current concerns of core IR research, in particular on the use of different kinds of evidence in searching and ranking. He is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge; he won the Tony Kent Strix Award in 1998 and the Gerard Salton Award in 2000.
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Ian Rowlands
Google generation: issues in information literacy
Talk
Ian focused on the issues from the perspective of the user and presented some findings related to the users' information behaviour that disperse the myth of so called 'Google generation'.