I learned today of the death of one of the legends of IR, Prof Karen Sparck Jones of University of Cambridge — there’s a nice note about her at:http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2007040403. The expression above about the need for more women to study CS is hers, and she was right. Her work crossed boundaries from automated language processing to privacy. Gender aside, we just need more thinkers like her in this field.
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information