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The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists ( IIS ), who died in 1997.

Tony Kent made a major contribution to the development of information science and information services both in the UK and internationally, particularly in the field of chemistry.

The name ' Strix ' was chosen to reflect Tony's interest in ornithology, and as the name of the last and most successful information retrieval packages that he created.