Prof. Lambert Schomaker - director of Artificial Intelligence Research at the Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen received an IBM Faculty award 2011 at an official ceremony on November 29th this year. The award is a recognition for his work and contribution to the development of a distinctive IT system that enables quick and efficient searching through handwritten documents and archives.

The system, called Monk is one of Target's challenging projects. Since 2009, when Prof. Schomaker and his group joined the Target consortium, the pool of expertise and close collaborations within the Target knowledge center have helped Monk become a technology with growing potential that is quickly catching the attention of archives and libraries around Europe.