# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerard-salton
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:56:36.970Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gerard-salton"
name: "Gerard Salton"
slug: "gerard-salton"
description: "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."
tagline: "German-born American computer scientist (1927-1995)"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-03-08"
deathDate: "1995-08-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.164556962025317
  historical:           8.744565333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "제라드 솔턴"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيرارد سالتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جرارد سالتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Gerard Salton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Salton"
    title: "Gerard Salton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Salton"
    title: "Gerard Salton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Salton"
    title: "Gerard Salton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86"
    title: "جرارد سالتون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Salton"
    title: "Gerard Salton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Salton"
    title: "Gerard Salton"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump