Gerard Salton
American computer scientist (1927-1995) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton (8 March 1927 – 28 August 1995) was a professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. Salton was perhaps the leading computer scientist working in the field of information retrieval during his time, and "the father of Information Retrieval".[1] His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard. It was the very first system to use the now popular vector space model for information retrieval.
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Gerard Salton | |
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Born | Gerhard Anton Sahlmann (1927-03-08)March 8, 1927 Nuremberg, Germany |
Died | August 28, 1995(1995-08-28) (aged 68) Ithaca, New York, US |
Education | Brooklyn College Harvard University |
Known for | the father of Information Retrieval[1] Gerard Salton Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | information retrieval |
Institutions | Cornell University |
Thesis | An automatic data processing system for public utility revenue accounting (1958) |
Doctoral advisor | Howard Aiken |
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