Dr Cees Snoek of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has won the Netherlands Prize for ICT research 2012. The prizewinner also receives €50,000. Computer scientist Snoek leads a research team working on the development of a smart search engine for digital video: the Media Mill Semantic Video Search Engine.

The Netherlands Prize for ICT research was established for scientists under 40, who are conducting innovative research or are responsible for a scientific breakthrough in the field of ICT. The award is an initiative of the ICT Research Platform Netherlands (IPN) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research’s (NWO) Physical Sciences division in cooperation with the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW).