The IEEE Professional Communication Society has awarded Arijit Sengupta and myself the Rudolph J. Joenk, Jr. Award for Best Paper of 2006 in the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication. The paper, “Query by Templates: Using the Shape of Information to Search Next-Generation Databases,” (see my pubs page for a copy) results originally from Dr. Sengupta’s doctoral dissertation which he completed at Indiana in Computer Science while we were both there. Jit is now an Assistant Professor at the Dept of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University and deserves most of the credit for this – not only was it his research work but he persisted with the paper when others may have been put off by some of the reviewers’ comments which indicated they did not really understand the concept of information shape and when his fellow faculty members wondered just what is a CS guy doing working on this kind of stuff? Congrats Jit!
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information