by Djoerd Hiemstra, John Tait, Andrew MacFarlane, and Nick Belkin
Stephen Robertson was named fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) last week. Robertson retired from the Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge this year after a long career as one of the most influential, well liked and eminent researchers in Information Retrieval throughout the world. His successful career was celibrated in the latest BCS IRSG Informer. Stephen Robertson continues to be active in Information Retrieval in his retirement at University College London.