# Gerard Salton

> Gerard A. "Gerry" Salton 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". His group at Cornell developed the SMART Information Retrieval System, which he initiated when he was at Harvard. It was the first system to use the now popular vector space model for information retrieval.

*German-born American computer scientist (1927-1995)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** Germany
- **Born:** 1927-03-08
- **Died:** 1995-08-28
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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