Mark Smucker, CIIR Alum, Receives Best Paper Award

Mark D. Smucker (Ph.D. '08), Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo, and co-author Charles L.A. Clarke, received the BEst Paper Award at the 35th Annual International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '12) for their paper “Time-Based Calibration of Effectiveness Measures.”