The School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, the iSchool at UBC, is proud to announce that the iSchool team has won the 2012 HCIR Challenge. Part of the Sixth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval Conference, held Oct. 4-5 in Cambridge, MA, this year’s Challenge was to design a system to provide efficient discovery of experts and expertise, using a dataset of more than a million researcher profiles from Mendeley. Check out the winning entry from UBC, dubbed Virtu: http://diigubc.ca/virtu. The search system takes a task-based approach, using sliders to give the searcher control over six dimensions of expertise. Congratulations to all members of the team: Professors Luanne Freund and Edie Rasmussen, post-doctoral researcher Michael Huggett, and MLIS students Kristof Kessler and Schuyler Lindberg.  For more information on the system, visit the UBC team’s Challenge Report: “Exposing and Exploring Academic Expertise with Virtu.”