{"id":6831,"date":"2021-01-11T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2021-01-11T10:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:50:06","slug":"announcement-of-the-karen-sparck-jones-award-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=6831","title":{"rendered":"Announcement of the Karen Sparck Jones Award for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0winner\u00a0of the\u00a02020\u00a0Microsoft-BCS\/BCS IRSG\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/irsg.bcs.org\/ksjaward.php\">Karen\u00a0Sp\u00e4rck Jones Award<\/a> (to be presented at ECIR 2021 next year) is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ahmed-hassan-awadallah-a355a27\/\">Dr. Ahmed Hassan Awadallah<\/a>, Principal Research Manager at\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0AI Research in Redmond, WA, USA. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheffield.ac.uk\/dcs\/people\/academic-visitors\/jochen-leidner\">Dr Jochen Liedner<\/a> is the IRSG representative on the Awards Committee if you have any recommendations for the 2021 Award.<\/p>\n<p>Note from the Editor \u2013 This BCS\/IRSG Award is not the same as the BCS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcs.org\/events-home\/karen-spaerck-jones-lecture\/\">Karen Sparck Jones Lecture<\/a> which honours women in computing research. Confusing, at least to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0winner\u00a0of the\u00a02020\u00a0Microsoft-BCS\/BCS IRSG\u00a0Karen\u00a0Sp\u00e4rck Jones Award (to be presented at ECIR 2021 next year) is\u00a0Dr. Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Principal Research Manager at\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0AI 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 \u2013 This BCS\/IRSG Award is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/?p=6831\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Announcement of the Karen Sparck Jones Award for 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-2021","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive-irsg.bcs.org\/informer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}