SIGIR 2004
27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference (Special Interest Group
Information Retrieval) Sheffield, July 25-29, 2004
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View upward from within the Winter Garden, Sheffield, where an opening reception was held
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Conference participants in the Winter Garden
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The conference organizer, University of Sheffield Professor Peter Willett (on stage)
and the mayor of Sheffield (with chain of office)
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Looking down the stairs up to Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, where we enjoyed the conference banquet.
The lady in the portrait is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
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The reception room beside the banquet hall. I am standing at center with my back to the camera,
left hand on hip and sipping wine
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The banquet. I am in the foreground, looking alertly leftward and rather out of focus
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