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“For sustained and substantial contributions in the areas of information retrieval and seeking, interactive and task-based retrieval, and evaluation metrics and models. His contributions include one of the most widely used evaluation measures in information retrieval, multiple insights on information seeking tasks in real-world contexts, and the creation and use of searcher simulations to better understand search behaviors and to evaluate systems. His ability to integrate research in retrieval algorithms, models and evaluation with research in information seeking and context, reflect the breadth of his scholarly influence.”