Gerard (Gerry) Salton

Maristella Agosti, Micheline Beaulieu, Cyril Cleverdon, Hans Peter Frei, Norbert Fuhr, David Harper, Peter Ingwersen, Michael Keen, Rainer Kuhlen, Stephen Robertson, Alan Smeaton, Karen Sparck Jones, Keith Van Rusbergen, Peter Willett

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Documentation
Volume52
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)1-2
Number of pages2
ISSN0022-0418
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 1996
Externally publishedYes

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