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