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Gerard Salton
German-born American computer scientist (1927-1995) · Germany · On the map · Academics · Died at 68
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".
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1995Died28 August 1995ACM FellowAward1983Gerard Salton AwardAward1962Guggenheim FellowshipAward1927Born8 March 1927
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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.
Country
Germany
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 1995 · aged 68
