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)