Professor Cornelis Joost Van Rijsbergen

Professor Cornelis Joost van Rijsbergen

C.J. van Rijsbergen was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1943.

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

 He was educated in Holland, Indonesia, Namibia and Australia.

 He took a degree in mathematics at the University of Western Australia. As a graduate he spent two years tutoring in mathematics while studying computer science.

 In 1972 he completed a Ph.D. in computer science at Cambridge University.

 After almost three years of lecturing in information retrieval and artificial intelligence at Monash University, he returned to the Cambridge Computer Laboratory to hold a Royal Society Information Research Fellowship.

 1980 - Chair of computer science at University College of Dublin.

 1986 - Professor and leader of the Information Retrieval Group, in the Department of Computing Science, Glasgow University.

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

 Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Edinburgh, IEE, BCS, and ACM.

 1993 - Editor-in-Chief of The Computer Journal, an appointment he held until 2000.

 Associate editor of Information Processing and Management, on the editorial board of Information Retrieval, and on the advisory board of the Journal of Web Semantics.

 Programme committee member and editorial board member of the major IR conferences and journals.

 2003 - Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

 Since 2007 he is Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Information Retrieval Facility.

CONTRIBUTION TO IR

He is the author of a well-known book Information Retrieval, Butterworths, 1979. In 1999, together with Crestani and Lalmas,he published a book entitled "Information Retrieval: Uncertainty and Logics". His most recent book is The Geometry of Information Retrieval, CUP, 2004.

Others works:-

i. Foundations of evaluation. Journal of Documentation, 30:365--373, 1974.

ii. The science of information retrieval: its methodology and logic. In Conferentie Informatiewetenschap in Nederland,, pages 21 -- 38, Den Haag, 1990. RABIN.

iii. What is information anyway? In Proceedings of the Joint International Computers Ltd., Newcastle, 1993. University of Newcastle Seminar.

iv. The state of information retrieval: logic and information. The Computer Bulletin,