Location: Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Date: 10-12 September 2009

Programme Committee


Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
April Kontostathis, Ursinus College, USA
Benjamin Piwowarski, University of Glasgow, UK
Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Bodo Billerbeck, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Christina Lioma, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Claudia Hauff, University of Twente, The Netherlands
David Losada, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Dell Zhang, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Di Cai, University of Glasgow, UK
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Dunja Mladenic, J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Eduard Hoenkamp, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Edward Snelson, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Emine Yilmaz, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Gianni Amati, FUB, Italy
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Guido Zuccon, University of Glasgow, UK
Hany Azzam, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Jan Frederik Forst, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Jianhan Zhu, University College London, UK
Jimmy Huang, York University, Canada
Jing Bai, Yahoo! Inc., USA
Jun Wang, Robert Gordon University, UK
Kalervo Jarvelin, Tampere University, Finland
Laurianne Sitbon, National ICT Centre, Australia
Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mark Baillie, University of Strathclyde, UK
Massimo Melucci, University of Padua, Italy
Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Nikolaos Nanas, Centre for Research and Technology - Thessaly, Greece
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Olga Vechtomova, University of Waterloo, Canada
Paul Ogilvie, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Paul Thomas, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Peng Zhang, Robert Gordon University, UK
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Qiang Huang, Robert Gordon University, UK
Raymond Lau, Hong Kong city University, Hong Kong
Richard Bache, University of Glasgow, UK
Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Italy
Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
Steven Cater, Kettering University, USA
Susan Gauch, University of Arkansas, USA
Tamas Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine, USA
Theo Huibers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
Victor Lavrenko, University of Edinburgh, UK
Vijay Raghavan, University of Louisiana, USA
Vishwa Vinay, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Wensi Xi, Google, USA