Gerard Salton

Education and Career - Born Gerhard Anton Sahlmann in Nuremberg, Germany - Came to the United States in 1947 and was naturalized in 1952 - Received a Bachelors (1950) and Masters (1952) degree in mathematics from Brooklyn College - Earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1958 - Joined Cornell University in 1965 and co-founded its department of Computer Science Honors and Awards - Editor-in-chief of the Communications of the ACM and the Journal of the ACM - Chaired the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) - Associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems - Elected as an ACM Fellow in 1995 - Received the SIGIR Award for outstanding contributions to the study of Information Retrieval in 1983 Bibliography - 'Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval' (1968) - 'A Theory of Indexing' (1975) co-authored with Michael J. McGill - 'Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval' (1983) co-authored with Michael J. McGill - 'Automatic Text Processing' (1989) - 'A Vector Space Model for Automatic Indexing' (1975) co-authored with A. Wong and C. S. Yang See Also - List of pioneers in computer science References - Alla, James. 'Automatic Hypertext Construction' (Cornell University) - 'The father of Information Retrieval' (PDF) from cs.cornell.edu - Salton, G.; Wong, A.; Yang, C. S. 'A vector space model for automatic indexing' in Communications of the ACM (1975) - Spärck Jones, K. 'A Statistical Interpretation of Term Specificity and Its Application in Retrieval' in Journal of Documentation (1972) - Salton, G.; Allan, J.; Buckley, C.; Singhal, A. 'Automatic Analysis, Theme Generation, and Summarization of Machine-Readable Texts' in Science (1994)