The IR lab was started in 1998 at IIT. The lab is now growing as part of Georgetown University's Computer Science Department.

Members of the lab graduated 12 PhD students, published more than 50 IR-related refereed papers in top conferences and journals, had 7 search-related patents issued, and placed highly in TREC many times. Students have gone on to take key leadership positions in major corporations such as BEA (now Oracle), Amazon, Orbitz, AOL, BAE, Telecordia, and co-found companies including Summize (merged with Twitter in 2008). Others have taken academic positions.

We are looking for PhD students. If interested contact Nazli Goharian at nazli@ir.cs.georgetown.edu.

Eric Burger will receive the IEEE-USA Professional Achievement for Individuals Award for 2012 this August. Congratulations Eric!

Computer Science Programming Basics in Ruby: Exploring Concepts and Curriculum with Ruby (Publisher: O'Reilly Media) is out!

Congratulations Yanan, Jason, and Andrew for each having a poster accepted in WWW 2013.

Congratulations Andrew & Jason for passing your qualifiers! Well done -- now the fun starts!

Congratulations Andrew & Nazli for your Best Poster Award (1 of 28) in the 2012 ICBI Biomedical Informatics Symposium. Well done!

Congratulations Andrew, Dave, & Steve for your Second Place showing on the 2012 NIST TREC Contextual Suggestion Track! Well done!