The winner of the 2020 Microsoft-BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award (to be presented at ECIR 2021 next year) is Dr. Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Principal Research Manager at Microsoft AI Research in Redmond, WA, USA. Dr Jochen Liedner is the IRSG representative on the Awards Committee if you have any recommendations for the 2021 Award.
Note from the Editor – This BCS/IRSG Award is not the same as the BCS Karen Sparck Jones Lecture which honours women in computing research. Confusing, at least to me!