The Accounting Research Institute (ARI) congratulates Prof Dr Zainab Abu Bakar for her successful professorial lecture this morning. Titled "Exploring the Challenging Information Retrieval Terrain", Prof Zainab posits that to be at the frontier of information retrieval (IR)knowledge, her research explores various information need of a fairly diversed scopes. Her research covers the terrain of Malay text, "songket" motifs, students term papers and many others. Retreiving information requires specific algorithms to search and match the information stored as indexed objects. She further added that for each query that is often expressed in "natural language", the retreival methods have to be effective and efficient. Her professorial lecture book is first and foremost a book of ideas, models, algorithims and data collections of the Malay language and heritage. Congratulations for contributing greatly to the ICT-based knowledge.....