On Wednesday last week I had the honour of co-chairing the 17th Search Solutions conference, at BCS London. As in previous years, the event included presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. And in keeping with tradition, we were delighted to be able to announce the winners of this year’s BCS Search Industry Awards. In a special session held at the close of Search Solution 2022, it was my honour to announce the winners for the following categories:
- Best search user experience goes to Boston University/Reza Rawassizadeh, Yi Rong for their work on ODSearch, searching very large amounts of data on resource constrained devices, such as smartwatch, close to real-time.
- Most promising start-up goes to Giotto AI, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report.
- Search Professional of the Year is Adam Tocock, Library Assistant at NHS. What makes Adam stand out is all the additional effort he puts into supporting colleagues and improving the skills and knowledge of other NHS librarians and knowledge specialists who conduct searches for research evidence on a daily basis.
- Best presentation at Search Solutions (as voted for by the audience) goes to Filip Radlinski (Google) for his work on “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation”.
Congratulations to all our winners!
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank our judging panel:
They did a remarkably thorough job of evaluating a highly competitive field with many strong submissions. I hope that winners share my view that this makes their awards all the more special.
Next year we hope to offer a similar set of awards but we are also open to suggestions for new ideas and categories. If you’d like to contribute, just drop us a line.
Nominations for next year’s awards will open early in the new year. As with this year’s awards, we are happy to accept self-nominations or nominations from a 3rd party. Good luck!
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