Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2020 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 in Information were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, have been selected.

Research Article:
Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning
by Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
Information 2020, 11(2), 108; doi:10.3390/info11020108

Research Article:
From HMI to HMIs: Towards an HMI Framework for Automated Driving
by Klaus Bengler, Michael Rettenmaier, Nicole Fritz, and Alexander Feierle
Information 2020, 11(2), 61; doi:10.3390/info11020061

Each winner will receive CHF 500, a certificate, and be given the opportunity to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Information and the Award Committee for voting and helping with this award.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, Information

Dear colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Information, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Information 2019 Best Paper Awards.

The winners are:

One Review Article:
“Text Classification Algorithms: A Survey”
by Kamran Kowsari, Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Mojtaba Heidarysafa, Sanjana Mendu, Laura Barnes and Donald Brown
Information 2019, 10(4), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10040150

One Research Article:
“Noisy ECG Signal Analysis for Automatic Peak Detection”
by Matteo D’Aloia, Annalisa Longo and Maria Rizzi
Information 2019, 10(2), 35; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10020035

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive 500 CHF and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Information in 2021.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Information, and to thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo, Information

The editorial team would like to congratulate the winners of the Information Best Paper Awards 2018. The winners were chosen by a selection committee, which was composed of Information Editorial Board Members, and finally approved by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Willy Susilo. The three winning papers of the Information Best Paper Awards 2018 are as follows:

Histopathological Breast-Image Classification Using Local and Frequency Domains by Convolutional Neural Network
Abdullah-Al Nahid and Yinan Kong
Information 2018, 9(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9010019

Dynamic Handwriting Analysis for Supporting Earlier Parkinson’s Disease Diagnosis
Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo and Gennaro Vessio
Information 2018, 9(10), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9100247

Mobile Mixed Reality for Experiential Learning and Simulation in Medical and Health Sciences Education
James Birt, Zane Stromberga, Michael Cowling and Christian Moro
Information 2018, 9(2), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/info9020031

We congratulate the authors and thank them for having chosen Information to publish their work.

In recognition of their accomplishment, the authors will each receive a cash award of 500 CHF and the privilege of publishing an additional research article or review paper free of charge in open access format in Information after the usual peer-review procedure.