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Dialog Announces 2002 Roger K. Summit Scholarship Winner

LONDON (4 December, 2002) — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced that Daphne R. Raban, from the University of Haifa in Israel, is the winner of the company's 2002 Roger K. Summit Scholarship award for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.

Dialog made the announcement during the Online Information 2002 conference, the world's largest gathering of information industry professionals meeting here this week. The scholarship is in honour of Roger K. Summit, the founder and former chairman of Dialog, an early pioneer in the technology behind electronic information retrieval.

"We are delighted that Daphne Raban has won this prestigious scholarship award," said Libby Trudell, Dialog senior vice president of information professional market development. "Daphne already has an impressive track record as a scholar and as an information professional with her own business. We are pleased to be able to help her continue her studies and research."

Raban is currently a doctoral candidate at Haifa University's Graduate School of Business, researching issues related to ownership and subjective value in the trading and sharing of information.

Born and raised in Israel, Raban earned her undergraduate degree at Iowa State University in 1988. She received her master's of science degree from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 1992. She then worked for a manufacturing company, leaving four years later to start her own independent information consulting business, one of the first in Israel.

Raban also created a post-graduate information retrieval course at Technion, where she continues to teach. She began her doctoral programme at the University of Haifa in 2000. Additional information on Raban's work at the University of Haifa is available at (http://gsb.Haifa.ac.il/~draban/lemonade). Raban also serves as coordinator for the University of Haifa's Center for the Study of the Information Society, and recently organised a doctoral consortium (more information: http://infosoc.Haifa.ac.il/kennes) there. She is also active in a number of professional organisations.

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About Dialog
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's online services - offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data brands - give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers, other information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

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