10 Dec 07

Morton N Cohen Award

John Kelly, Professor of English and a Fellow of St John’s College is to  be presented with the ninth Morton N Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters by the Modern Language Association of America for The Collected Letters of W B Yeats, volume 4, published by Oxford University Press and edited by Professor Kelly and Ronald Schuchard of Emory University.

The Selection Committee’s citation stated that: ‘The fourth volume of the Collected Letters show Yeats in the full throes of professional life and focuses particularly on his engagement with the Irish drama movement. An exemplary marriage of literary pleasure and scholarly brilliance, The Collected Letters will be a work of abiding interest to both readers and specialists.’

The Morton N Cohen award has been presented biennially since 1991 and will be one of 18 awards presented on 28 December during the Association’s convention in Chicago. The Modern Language Association is the largest and one of the oldest American learned societies in the Humanities and exists to advance literary and linguistic studies

Association for Computing Machinery Fellowship

Georg Gottlob, Professor of Computing Science Fellow at St Anne’s College, has been named as a 2007 Fellow of the US-based Association for Computing Machinery, which develops advanced computing both as a science and a profession.

Professor Gottlob has been recognised for his contribution to the theory of artificial intelligence and database systems. He is one of 38 new fellows from leading universities, industries and research labs recognised for contributions to computing technology that have brought advances in the way people live and work throughout the world.