Yesterday, I received the deeply sad message that Prof. Karen Spärck Jones died in the age of 71. During last year’s Microsoft Research Summer School she was one of the judges members evaluating the student’s posters – such as mine. The critics have been quite hard but very effective, clearly telling what was missing and what has to be improved. One of the few valuable reviews.

Some of her artwork can be seen in the public area at Microsoft Research in Cambridge in the Roger Needham Building. Whenever you attend a talk or lecture there, you should have a look…