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Dr. Ophir Frieder
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Dr. Frieder Dr. Ophir Frieder is the IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is presently on leave from IIT and as serves as the Royden B. Davis, S.J., Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at Georgetown University. His research interests focus on scalable information retrieval systems spanning search and retrieval and communications issues.

He co-authored three books, was awarded ten patents, published over 100 publications, received research support from and consulted for a variety of governmental and industrial organizations, and has served as the lead technical expert witness is several key intellectual property disputes. His systems are deployed in commercial and governmental production environments worldwide. In 1993, he received the NSF National Young Investigator Award. Recently, Springer Science and Business Media designated his co-authored book entitled "Information Retrieval: Algorithms and Heuristics" with the "Top Selling Title" award. He is the recipient of the 2007 ASIS&T Research in Information Science Award and is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.

Upcoming keynote address at WORLDCOMP '08.

Illinois Institute of Technology
Department of Computer Science
10 W. 31st St.
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: (312) 567-5143
Email: ophir@ir.iit.edu