EVVIE at the Boston Search Engine Meeting
March 20, 2008
Infonoritcs, Ltd. (Tetbury, Glou.) announced that the EVVIE award for the best paper will be awarded on Tuesday, April 29, 2008. Everett Brenner is generally regarded as one of the “fathers” of commercial online databases. He worked for the American Petroleum Institute and served as a mentor to many of the innovators who built commercial online.
The Boston Search Engine meeting attracts search professionals, search vendors, and experts interested in content processing, text analysis, and search and retrieval. Held each year in Boston, Ev, as he was known to his friends, demanded excellence in presentations about information processing.
Sponsored by Stephen E. Arnold (ArnoldIT.com), this award goes to the speaker who best exemplifies Ev’s standards of excellence. The selection committee consists of the program committee, assisted by Harry Collier (conference operator) and Stephen E. Arnold.
Mr. Arnold said, “I saw Ev shortly before he died. One of the things we talked about was selecting good speakers for the Infonortics conference. He asked me, “Is it possible to give special recognition to those who do outstanding work?’ I spoke with Ev’s wife and she agreed that an annual award was appropriate. Harry Collier made the EVVIE a part of the annual Search Engine Meeting. This award is one way for us to respect his contributions and support his life long commitment to excellence.”
The awardee receives a cash prize and an engraved plaque. Information about the conference is avaiable on the Infonortics, Ltd. Web site at www.infonortics.com and here. More information about the award is here.
Don Anderson, Intellas.com, March 20, 2008
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Personally, I think you should be “bronzed”!
Ev wanted me bronzed too. Thanks for your kind words. Ev would have been very proud of the young me who won. Liz, David, and Sue were quite thorough just as Ev wanted.
Stephen Arnold, May 4, 2008