Ophir Freider Receives IEEE Technical Achievement Award
Ophir Frieder, IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory, has received a 2008 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Computer Society. With 85,000 members, the IEEE-CS is the world's leading organization of computing professionals.
The technical achievement awards honor outstanding, innovative work in computer and information science and engineering within the past 15 years. Professor Frieder was cited for his pioneering development of scalable information systems.
Professor Frieder focuses on scalable information retrieval systems spanning search and retrieval and communications issues, with his systems deployed in commercial and governmental environments worldwide.
Holder of a dozen patents, co-author of three books (including the popular and award-winning Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics) and more than 100 articles, he is the recipient of the 2007 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award and is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM and IEEE.
(From an article by Patricia Cronin, College of Science and Letters)
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