TY - JOUR
T1 - Gerard (Gerry) Salton
AU - Agosti, Maristella
AU - Beaulieu, Micheline
AU - Cleverdon, Cyril
AU - Frei, Hans Peter
AU - Fuhr, Norbert
AU - Harper, David
AU - Ingwersen, Peter
AU - Keen, Michael
AU - Kuhlen, Rainer
AU - Robertson, Stephen
AU - Smeaton, Alan
AU - Sparck Jones, Karen
AU - Van Rusbergen, Keith
AU - Willett, Peter
PY - 1996/1/1
Y1 - 1996/1/1
N2 - Sir, We write to record our debt, and that of our colleagues, to one of the founding fathers of information retrieval, Gerard (Gerry) Salton, who died on 28th August 1995 in Ithaca, ny at the age of 68. Information retrieval was established as a new academic discipline by a small number of pioneers, Gerry among them, who recognised the need for, and the research challenges presented by, the automated indexing, storage and retrieval of text documents. He brought academic rigour and scholarship to establishing the foundations of this discipline, and we acknowledge his influential contributions to the theory, experimental methods, and practice of information retrieval.
AB - Sir, We write to record our debt, and that of our colleagues, to one of the founding fathers of information retrieval, Gerard (Gerry) Salton, who died on 28th August 1995 in Ithaca, ny at the age of 68. Information retrieval was established as a new academic discipline by a small number of pioneers, Gerry among them, who recognised the need for, and the research challenges presented by, the automated indexing, storage and retrieval of text documents. He brought academic rigour and scholarship to establishing the foundations of this discipline, and we acknowledge his influential contributions to the theory, experimental methods, and practice of information retrieval.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84993089676&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/eb026959
DO - 10.1108/eb026959
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84993089676
SN - 0022-0418
VL - 52
SP - 1
EP - 2
JO - Journal of Documentation
JF - Journal of Documentation
IS - 1
ER -